The Role of Gender: Gender Socialization
The gender socialization process teaches children from a very early age how to differentiate between males and females. Over time, most boys and girls take on gender-related traits and incorporate them into their behavi..
The Role of Gender: Similarities and Differences Between Men and Women
The fact that gender is a very different experience for males and females might suggest that men and women are fundamentally very different. But according to many who study gender, this is a fallacy.
The Role of Gender: Women in the Workplace
The experiences of men and women in the workplace are often very different. Women frequently must contend with gender-based discrimination. Although the courts got involved in gender-related employment issues in the 19..
The Role of Gender: Women's Professional Football
A woman who plays in a women's professional football league talks about her decision to join the league and discusses the reactions of friends and family
The Role of Language
Philosopher Hilary Putnam explains his statement that "...the belief that language describes something outside of ourselves plays an essential role in our human lives." In so doing, Professor Putnam readily acknowledges ..
The Role of Philosophers
Philosopher Hilary Putnam talks about the value of those philosophers who are part of what he calls "public philosophy." He argues that the work they do is particularly important in today's "sound bite" era, when in-dept..
The Scientific View of Human Nature
Continuing his discussion of science and its limitations, philosopher Hubert Dreyfus says that science is good at figuring out facts, like the genetic code or what human beings need in order to survive. Where science fal..
The Search for Intelligence: Environmental and Genetic Influences on Intelligence
Intelligence represents an interaction between genes and environment. Genes for abilities may not be totally additive, a concept known as emergenesis. Hundreds of genes may contribute a small amount of variance to a part..
The Search for Intelligence: Multiple Intelligences
In elementary school, psychology professor Joyce Bishop, had difficulty making sense of long sentences and paragraphs. When she first read Howard Gardner's research on multiple intelligences, she realized the problem she..
The Search for Intelligence: Standardized Tests-What Do They Really Measure?
Standardized tests, when used properly, can provide valuable objective information, highlighting academic strengths and weaknesses that might go unnoticed. Originally, that was their intent, to predict success in school ..