Blog Assignment 3 | Duking it Out
It’s a hotly debated topic, trust me, and there is plenty of evidence for either side. I say "boys" and "girls" rather than "men" and "women" because we're going to be focused on kids. Let's limit the discussion to children under the age of 10.
Blog Assignment 3 | Due Wednesday April 14 | 12:00 noon
GOALS: 1) Share knowledge and resources for the course 2) Prepare to take a position in class
Your task is two-fold:
1) Take a position.
POSITION 1: Under the age of 10, boys are more aggressive than girls.
POSITION 2: Little boys aren’t really more aggressive than little girls.
I would like a balanced debate, so I’m asking that half the class take position 1 and the other half take position 2. To make your position obvious, start your post with these capital letters (POSITION 1 or POSITION 2). Folks who post early will get to pick their position, but folks who post later – please review what your classmates have argued and pick the position that’s under-represented. The discussion and debate will be so much more interesting if both sides have a voice.
2) Find a resource to support your position.
- Do some web research and find a resource that supports your position. It can be a full article on the topic or it could be an abstract to a journal article. It shouldn't, however, just be a mom's blog about her over-aggressive son or daughter.
- Read the article or abstract.
- Describe one of the arguments the article or abstract makes in support of your position. (See my example below). You don't have to make an elaborate, four paragraph argument here - you can save the big guns for the in-class debate.
- Post the link to the article so others can find it.
Look, Ma! No clunky url. For the last assignment, I had folks post long urls to webpages, but I should have shown you the very cool "LINK" feature. You can see this feature when you're writing your comment to be posted. Once you've found the website you want to use, look at the toolbar on the top and click on the 5th icon from the left (on my monitor, it looks like a sickly, green globe with a chain link on it). This embeds the link within the post.
POSITION 2: For example, I found a great article by Hyde (1984). This article reviews 143 studies that looked at gender differences in aggression. According to this study, gender differences in aggression were going down in more recent studies, especially when the researchers looked at the parents’ or teachers’ reports of kids’ behavior. Of course, this study was published in 1984, 26 years ago, but let's look past that fact for the moment.
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ReplyDeletehttp://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118794336/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0#ss4
A study of 48 preschool aged children found that boys don’t necessarily display more aggression than girls. The aggression that boys show is more physical and verbal where girls use more indirect aggression toward their peers.
POSITION 2
ReplyDeletehttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1372700131&sid=4&Fmt=6&clientId=19912&RQT=309&VName=PQD
Boys may tend to show more open, physical aggression, but girls develop an equally cruel or even more cruel method of aggression: indirect or regressive aggression. It's only fair to claim that boys are more aggressive when they're younger if it is in the sense that they are more openly and directly aggressive.
POSITION 1
ReplyDeleteSex Differences and Gender Role Development
There's a section in this paper talking about aggression differences in boys and girls that states boys are more physically and verbally aggressive even starting at the age of two.
POSITION 1
ReplyDeleteIn a 2008 study in Iran, 258 children from 3 to 7 years-old were rated in their relational aggression by teachers, using a newly-devised questionnaire. Sex differences were not observed and were not significantly different across age groups.
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ReplyDeletePOSITION 2
The media has been a subtle reinforcer in where there's a "Queen Bee" who is popular and uses relational aggression to gain more popularity. In films where we see this, the "Queen Bee's" actions can be used by little girls in a school setting.
Position 2
ReplyDeleteThis is an article that mentions a meta-analysis of 148 studies that included more than 74,000 children. The study concluded that while boys do display more aggressive behavior regarding direct aggression, boys and girls show little difference when dealing with indirect aggression.
http://children.webmd.com/news/20080916/boys-girls-equal-at-social-aggression
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/121825.php
This article talks about how girls are socially aggressive rather than boys who are physically aggressive. Girls are more likely to spread rumors while boys are more likely to punch or kick as a form of aggression. However, this article also talks about how girls and boys equally take part in social aggression. Social aggression is not just a "female thing".
-LQ
POSITION 2
ReplyDeletehttp://library.adoption.com/articles/girls-aggressive.html
This article discusses research done by Nicki Crick and her collegues at University of Minnesota. They discuss how society's attention on aggression focuses on the physical aggression that is a characteristic of boys. But what most people don't realize is the different type of aggression related to the characteristic of girls, which they called "relational aggression." This type of aggression is just as hurtful as physical aggression of boys, in which it targets other girls more emotionally and it can lead to future problems. HJ
POSITION 1
ReplyDeletehttp://www.groundreport.com/Business/Boys-Versus-Girls-A-Race-to-Delinquency_10/2891960
This article discusses the social norms that boys and girls live with in public and the natural tendencies towards agression. American culture has taught most boys to be the type of aggressive leaders that act out, while American culture has taught women to be less aggressive.
Position 2
ReplyDeleteRelational Aggression, Gender, and Peer Acceptance: Invariance across Culture, Stability over Time, and concordance among Informants - Research Article
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This study is a cross-cultural replication of the article assigned for class today. The demographics of the research population were child in Italy. From their findings, it was concluded that girls were just as aggression as boys concerning relational aggression. What differed was that boys were also high in relational aggression. This is due to the fact that cultural relationships are very important in the culture(Tomada and Schneider, 1997).
POSITION 1
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/39926.html
This abstract is talking about boys tend to be aggressive than girls based on the data that school-aged boys exhibit more disruptive behaviour problems such as hyperactivity-impulsivity, opposition-defiance and physical aggression. Boys act more disruptively more often than girls. Due to the data, evidence, people believe boys are instinctively being aggressive than girls.
POSITION 1
ReplyDelete(Benenson et al, 2008)
The abstract suggests that boys under the age of 10 (4, 5, 6, and 9 years old) more so than girls (50% boys vs. less than 10% of girls) enjoyed using any of their favorite toys for harmful physical aggression on another peer. The older the boy was, the more likely physical aggression in "play activities" and on TV was enjoyed over other alternative play and TV content. This study makes implications for further research on the possible pleasure associated with physical aggression for males. -MCS
Position 1-1.5
ReplyDeleteEveryone keeps citing the differences between physical and relational aggression, so I decided to find an article which may shed some light on the different stress impact between the two:
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CORTISOL: the hormone created by your body as a primary stress response.
This article took 418 children ages 6-12 at day-camp and measured their relative cortisol levels throughout the day following high levels of physical versus relational aggression. Relational aggression was followed by lower levels of cortisol which declined slowly throughout the day, whereas physical aggression resulted in high levels of cortisol which decreased more rapidly.