for political representation, social position, psychological approval, and the base foundation of economic support.According to marxist-feminism, a strategy for eliminating women's vulnerability to assault involves altering the power relationship between women and men. Women's vulnerability will not end with individual change alone; there -3will have to be across the board social change as well. The whole assumption of male superiority will have to be negated. Assault must be viewed as a sociopolitical issue, because it keeps women powerless and reinforces the status quo of male domination. There are many factors, beginning with economics, which enforce the belief that "a woman's place is in the home." Consequently, women tend to be displaced from the mainstream of community action, employment, and decision making.The traditional female, in a patriarchal pedagogy, is supposed to be passive and put others' feelings before her own; the traditional male is expected to be aggressive and forward. Men are supposed to go after what they want. They're seen as aggressors; women are the gatekeepers. Marxist-feminism believes that these stereotypes are directly related to sexual assault. One way to analyze the power relationship between men and women is by examining some of the common social rules women are taught, which is a notion that overlaps social learning theory.Glasers theory of differential identification, as a form of social learning theory, is a micro-synchronic approach. The micro-synchronic approach is concerned with why certain individuals behave differently from others. Most sociological studies are done from this approach, as it reflects the popular view of societal workings. Differential identification suggests that to be influenced by criminal traditions (e.g. acts of violence), the individual must identify with definitions of deviance conveyed by real or imaginary models of the deviant behaviours. Specifically...
