Gender As A Product Of Socialisation

In the last several years, numerous feminist movements have brought a great deal of attention to the gender equality issues many societies face. Is this increased awareness helping towards a neutral gendered socialization process which will inevitably eliminate the inequality? Gender socialization is the process where an individual is impacted by agents of socialization through their life stages which consequently creates the gender roles we see in today’s society. The only way to start working towards a gender equal world is by making changes towards the gender socialization process.

Socialization, Gender, and Education as a social institution have all been topics that have been heavily discussed in the classroom. Each of these sociological aspects of society help create ideologies and norms in particular as to the role gender plays in the household and in the workplace. From the extended interview on Adam Belaid, it has become evident that the education plays the largest role in socialization. In particular, the public educational institutions that have been founded on the principals of the state. Particularly, educational institutions and their effect on its students views on gender. Through an analysis of the interviewee, Martin’s “Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools”, and Bowles’ “Education and Inequality” it is evident that the educational institution plays the greatest role in the socialization of an individual.

Growing up, many Americans ' childhood consisted of playing tag outside, having cooties, and experimenting with as many toys as possible. Hundreds of thousands of toys flood kid stores such as Toys R ' Us, Baby Depot, and KB toys. With imagination, kids are able to become doctors, presidents, and princesses during the contents of one day. Television shows such as Barney or Blues Clues encourage having such imagination, thus inspiring kids to want to become one of the many options stores can transform them into. Walking into a regular toy store, people generally do not dissect the sexism that lays within the aisles, however, when walking in specifically to compare and contrast boys and girls toys

Throughout centuries gender has been a social construct that enforces gender norms and as a result, gender inequality was born. Gender inequality has prevailed and can be observed throughout most cultures, education, labor force, and in our own personal lives.

The society has regulations in which people have to obey making social life be structured. Society has expectations for people to live by. People tend to live up to the norms in order to feel part of the world. Individuals do not want to be judged and labeled, so unconsciously live by the roles that they believe their gender has to follow. Gender is socially constructed concept in which society acts upon. The family is the first to influence individuals to this idea. Gender has roles in which boys and girls are supposed to follow. Depending on one’s gender, they are expected to dress, behave, and act accordingly to either portray a masculine or feminine personality. These gender roles are implied by society and if individuals do not follow are seen as outcast. It is difficult for people to comply to these characteristics and roles because they might have different life experiences and situations that might influence to act other than their gender roles imply.

My personal gender history began in September of 1995, when I was born a biological female in Bethpage, Long Island, New York. Growing up, I would say I had an atypical gender socialization experience. Girls were playing with dolls, learning to prepare food and clothes and essentially everything that is associated with “women’s duties” and boys were playing with toy cars, weapons, and action figures, while being encouraged to practice different sports. Upon this humanly devised and regulated binary, how does our society determine or define so-called "manhood" and "womanhood"? How are these constructed?

Every society trains its young to function within its own view of the world and according to the rules and regulations that control that world. This is known as socialization. Socialization is defined as the, "Process by which a human being beginning at infancy acquires the habits, beliefs, and accumulated knowledge of society through education and training for adult status" (Merriam-Webster). Through socialization people adapt and learn to modify their behavior, thoughts, feelings and attitudes according to the requirements of their culture and society. Society is seen misrepresenting genders in how the younger generations are taught. At a very young age children are exposed to what it means to be either a boy or a girl and gender roles are

1.  Explain why gender is not a property of individuals but rather a feature of social situations.  Give specific examples, including your own experiences, in which gender differences were assumed to be natural but were really social constructed.

Socialization regarding gender impacts the way an individual: ranks themselves in society in comparison to other genders, lives their gender identity within society, and self-identifies as a gendered being. The intended goal of socialization is to prepare the individual for their role in several institutions, but roles are different depending on gender. The patriarchal American society holds many dated misconceptions about gender roles that result in differences in the socialization of men and women. Men are socialized to lead and excel in institutions, while women are socialized to play supporting roles. This has shown to be particularly true in the institutions of family and the workforce, in which men are socialized to be bread-winners and

Growing up in the United States was a blast although, I have noticed that gender role have affected in many peoples lives. Since I am only nineteen years old I don’t have much life experience. Even though I am only nineteen years old I noticed that a lot of roles have changed from early 2000s to now. I believe that equality in genders have improved a lot, not just the United States but, also a lot of countries all over the world. Reading about gender roles throughout the history is very shocking on how women didn’t have the same equal rights compare to men. Up to now their are still stereotypes and equal rights that affect both men and women.

Every day we come across advertisements, many of them revolve around gender and gender socialization. Gender socialization is “the process of learning the social expectations and attitudes associated with one’s gender” (Chegg). Our book discusses gender socialization regarding the expectations for masculinity and femininity (Wood 2015). Most companies use these expectations to create their advertisements, but some companies contradict the expectations to create a different vision for gender advertisements.

What are gender roles? Gender roles are set of expectations, attitudes, and behaviors that are expected from a male or a female in a particular culture. We are socialized to these expectations from our agents of socialization such as media, parents, schools and as we grow up we see a platform that reinforces us to these expectations. The meanings attached to male and female are different and our society valued male over female. The man is supposed to be aggressive, strong, a leader and woman is supposed to be nurturing, submissive and passive. Traditionally the woman is supposed to cook, clean and take care of the household while the man provided for the family.The cycle continued and thorough repeated socialization women and men have started

Throughout history, as well as in modern society, gender roles and stereotypes are prevalent and considered somewhat mandated for a cohesive lifestyle, however, that is not the case. Gender-roles teach individuals to live in a constricted mold, hand crafted by extremists that believe all members of a specific gender should act a certain way. For example, the stereotype that all males should be tough, show little to no emotion, and men are insensitive is not always going to be true. Likewise, the stereotype that all females are going to be ladylike, sweet, and household oriented with little concern for education or careers is just as foolish of a thought. The socialization of these gender roles starts from the time parents know the sex of their

I believe children should be raised genderless because when the kids are raised to be specific gender, they tend to binded by the social tradition. The children cannot do what they want to do because parents, families, and other people discourage kids preventing them to make their own choice and follow their own path. Boys tend to treated to act like men and girld are treated to act like women, and if either one tries to be different, they will be faced with suffering and hardship. I believe that gender roles can have a negative effect on socialisation because gender roles is used to dictate the life of a person men and women who don't follow the rules of society is subjected to criticism and

As evident from the generalized patterns found in differences in behaviour and outlook observed between the sexes, it may be tempting, as has been done in the past, to conclude that gender is an unavoidable aspect of human existence as determined purely from one 's genes. Indeed, human physiology is subject to sexual dimorphism; statistically significant differences in brain size and rate of maturation of specific substructures in the brain exist between males and females (Giedd, Castellanos, Rajapakese, Vaituzis, & Rapoport, 1997), yet these physical differences fail to explain how individuals form their concept of their own gender, and why they tend to conform to their perceived gender roles as defined by the society in which they live, when these roles are ever-changing. Thus, it is important to differentiate between the physical and nonphysical traits, and how the labels of femininity and masculinity should not confuse the two aspects. As defined by Unger (1979), “sex” would be used to refer to the biological differences in males and females, while “gender” describes socioculturally determined, nonphysiological traits which are arbitrarily designated as being appropriate for either females or males. With more recent awareness and interest in matters of gender nonconformity and individual gender identity, new research now explains how these concepts of gender are shaped by social influences (Perry