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Name _____________________________
Project 2
Popular Media Representations of
Sexuality
DUE
1/29/2004
Social learning theory maintains
that children are attracted to same-sex models whom they imitate and from
whom they learn about sexuality. A common source of such same-sex models
is the popular media. Examine three different popular media (e.g., print
media such as romance novels, gay/lesbian/bisexual fiction; visual media
such as soap operas, movies) examples of sexual scripts and analyze their
messages about sexuality.
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Messages about
Female sexuality
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Messages about
Male sexuality
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Media Example 1:
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Media Example 2:
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Media Example 3:
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Were the popular media examples you chose
of heterosexual or nonheterosexual interaction? What is predominant in
popular media? Does representativeness vary across different types of media?
One criticism of social learning theory
is that it fails to explain the wide within-sex variation in sexual patterns
and preferences. Do popular media only portray dominant sexual scripts
or are various scripts available? Do sexual scripts vary across different
types of media? Has the representation of sexual scripts changed in recent
times?
Paul, E. L. & Johnson,
E. R. (1998). Instructor's Manual and Test Bank. D. Ansalmi & A. Law,
The Question Of Gender: Perspectives and
Paradoxes. NY: The McGraw-Hill companies,
Inc.
Copyright © 1998 by The McGraw-Hill
Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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