Greek Mythology connections to Psychology & sociology

Source References

Modern Interpretation

Women:

-Beauty to women is important

*Through more modern eras women are/were considered the ones that:

-stay at home to do housework

-take care of the babies

-cook

-do not go out to do anything that could harm them

*Men were considered that role to:

-Go hunting to bring home food

-Do work to support that family and wife

-Take care of the women so they could take care of the children

-Be the "head of household"

-Whatever the male in the family says, goes.

Modern Power

-"A SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: SELF TYPES AND THEIR DIFFERENCES ACROSS GENERATIONS AND THE LIFE-CYCLE." A SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: SELF TYPES AND THEIR DIFFERENCES ACROSS GENERATIONS AND THE LIFE-CYCLE. Web. 10 Dec. 2014. <http://www.trinity.edu/mkearl/socpsy-6.html>.

-"Google Books." Google Books. Web. 10 Dec. 2014. <http://books.google.com/>.id=7Kpy0b0hXg4C&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124&dq=sociology+and+greek

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-Lattimore, Richmond. The Odyssey of Homer. New York: Harper & Row, 1967. Print.

-"Psychiatric Bulletin." Psychiatric Bulletin. Web. 10 Dec. 2014. <http://pb.rcpsych.org/>.

Also known to be seductive,

-a distraction to the male gender

-sirens

-Calypso

-Penelope as a wife back home

Men are distracted by women today which is why there is a dress code in working and public places

-Beauty is how women get there power because they were not strong, they had to woo men to get what they wanted

-People seek power by gaining things that could give them power.

-Such as: Wealth

: Having a high job as a boss in a large business

: Or owning your own business

: Making yourself more appealing to the eye

-Such things can also lead to negative traits

-being selfish

-careless

- mean and angry

A majority of people take advantage of what power they have.

Infatuation with Power

Gender Roles

Behaviors:

-as presented in the book of Medea:

-The infatuation to hold power is expressed as

1. Medea is angered by the choice that her husband has made against her

2.She rebels

3. Medea holds all power over Jason by taking all his power away

4.To the human mind, power is everything.

5.Power leads to nasty characteristics in people.

6.Taking advantage of power

*Presented in Greek Mythology

-Women are those of to be taken care of by the male role

-They are not considered able to provide for themselves

For Example:

-The Odyssey

-Penelope is waiting around for her husband to return and support her.

-Suitors are waiting around to take care of and marry her because she cannot do it herself.

*Men are presented as brave and warrior-like

-All men are to be called to war and to go on adventures

-Women stay home to have babies

- May be with any woman while still married

-(If women did this it was considered disrespectful to her husband

Sociology & Psychology

The behaviors of those in the Greek Mythological era reflects of those of the era known today.

-People behave and react the same way

-Jealous of one who gets something that another wants.

-hatred of those that you feel jealousy for

-For example: Medea

: Suitors to Odysseus

: Hera's jealousy toward all women who her husband Zues desires & later Hera punishes

-being, both, the study of all human functions including the way the mind works such as those effecting the behavior of one.

-development

-structure

-function of human society

-Greek Mythology is connected to psychological and sociological circumstanes

-expressed in myths

-modern day communications and cultures

-expectations of the human world

-reactions

-AND PLENTY MORE

Structure of Human Thoughts

-roles of genders

- expectations for certain ages

- infatuation of power

Greek Mythology Connections to Psychology & Sociology

By, Shalina Pearson