The Secret Life of Boys:
In what ways does the film support the following:
1.social learning theory,
2.gender schema/script theory, or
3.cognitive developmental theory.
Identify potential sources of bias in the film.
Part II discussion board:
After looking up Feminist Theory, respond to the following question:
What is the point of Feminist Theory?
After looking up Queer Theory, respond to the following:
Queer Theory encourages us to ask ourselves this question: who am I really? If we perform manhood and womanhood, then maybe we perform other roles as well. What might some of the roles be?
Part 1
This film supports the social learning theory because the social learning theory states that gender identity stems from a set of behaviors learned from the surrounding environment. Children use observational learning to identify how they should behave depending on their birth sex. Observational learning entails imitating what they see their
