THE LEARNING OF SEX-ROLE IDENTIFICATION AND SEX-TYPING BEHAVIOURS IN THE BIROM SOCIETY OF PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIA

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dc.contributor.authorBASIL, JAMES AGWASIM
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-18T10:05:10Z
dc.date.available2014-02-18T10:05:10Z
dc.date.issued1983-06
dc.description(AN INDEPENDENT STUDY) A PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, IN PARTIAL FULFULMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER IN EDUCATION * DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION FACULTY OF EDUCATION AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA.en_US
dc.description.abstractSocieties vary in the degree to which they train children differently according to their sexes. Some societies segregate the sexes quite early and begin training for differentiated adult roles right away. In others girls and boys receive fairly similar early training. The necessity for this study arose from the author's interest in the rich culture of the Birom people, and especially in the way the people handed down to up-coming generation some of their values as a society. Sex-role identification has far reaching consequences for all societies because it touched on the very lives of the people, and so the author wanted to see how the Birom people differentiated between the sexes. Sex differences between males and females could be biologically or culturally determined. This has been shown to be the case by the works of several people, including Hochschild (1973); Ernest (1978); Freud (1949); and Kohlberg (1948). It was hypothesised for the study that there would be no differences between boys and girls in the patterns of identification adopted, that there would be no differences between the efforts of fathers and mothers in teaching sex-roles in Birom, and that there would be no differences between boys and girls in the acquisition of adequate sex-roles and sex-typing through artifacts. The study itself dealt with the emerging perceptions of the Birom people, young and old, about the men and women that they know they have become, or are becoming. The study explored the ideas, definitions, explanations, and evaluations of children about the two sex categories as an index of how they themselves learn to belong. A Parent Attitude Scale Towards Sex-role and Sex-typing (P.A.S.S.S.) adapted from Hake's (1972) model and containing sixty items to find out parental attitudes as repositories of Birom cultural practices; a collection of sex-typed articles such as pots, bows and arrows, bangles and tarings, and beads to determine wtaetfoer the choices the children would make followed sex lines; and an interview schedule designed with questions to ascertain to what extent children answered questions on sex-role and sex-typing were the instruments used for the study. Two hundred parents and fifty of their children from five groups of Birom village settlements "Scattered" around Bukuru, Heipang and Barkin Ladi were involved with the study. The r e s u l t s showed that in Birom society there was a clear d i f f e r e n t i a t i o n between males and females with specific sex-role expectations for the two sexes. The ideology that supported sex s t r a t i f i c a t i o n in Birom society t a l l i e d with Nemerowicz's 1979) assertion that t h i s ideology was s t i l l fundamentally rooted in Biology - which has "Blessed" men so much so that it has equipped them for almost a l l social r o l e s , while females have not been so "Blessed". The study also revealed that in Birom society there was an image of the work world as a tough, physically taxing environment not only limited to the c h i l d ' s mind, but also to the adult, and that "work" was not something enjoyed; it was vissioned as a burden borne b e t t e r by the strong, the masculine.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1871
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectLEARNING,en_US
dc.subjectSEX-ROLE IDENTIFICATION,en_US
dc.subjectSEX-TYPING BEHAVIOURS,en_US
dc.subjectBIROM,en_US
dc.subjectSOCIETY,en_US
dc.subjectPLATEAU STATE,en_US
dc.subjectNIGERIA.en_US
dc.titleTHE LEARNING OF SEX-ROLE IDENTIFICATION AND SEX-TYPING BEHAVIOURS IN THE BIROM SOCIETY OF PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIAen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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