Gender stereotypes when choosing the head of the clan in Yakut families

Abstract

The research of gender education and gender-role behavior of men and women is becoming increasingly relevant in modern society. Psychological trends of modern society, appealing to androgynous values, increasingly blur the boundaries that define male and female roles and their functions. This is especially evident in family relationships. The article is devoted to the idea of the head of the genus in the Yakut family, gender stereotypes among the Sakha people. In the course of the study, the author’s methodology was developed based on the Mukhina’s methodology “Criminal or scientist», as well as the authors’ questionnaire on identifying the head of a clan and the line of the clan. The respondents were young people aged 18 – 29 years. The results of the study showed that in modern Yakut families, the ancestral line is more often carried out on the mother’s side. The head of a clan in most cases is also a woman. It was revealed that there are no statistically significant gender differences in our sample