Gender Socialization

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Gender Socialization

INTRODUCTION

Socialization refers to the process through which people learn skills, knowledge, values, motives, and roles appropriate to their position(s) in a social group or society, resulting in a particular identity or identities relevant to that social group or society. Socialization takes place through communicative interaction with others whenever new roles are engaged as part of a group or society. One basic assumption of socialization theory is the internalization of group or social requirements (Andersen et.al 2007). During socialization, one learns to take on an identity associated with a particular group and perform it in a competent manner.

DISCUSSION

Example 1

I have been brought up in a society, where the behavior, of a person, largely depends on the preconceived ideas regarding the other person. In our society, when a child is born the first question that parents and others is given: "Who is it - a boy or a girl?" Subsequent adult behavior depends on the answer. Girls dressed in pink, decorated their rooms in pastel colors. Boys choose blue, and their rooms painted in bright colors. From the first minutes of life, children begin to live in peace, divided by gender, because the parents different views and expectations about what character traits, habits, hobbies, tastes, must be trained and vaccinated their daughters and sons.

Girls are more tender and vulnerable than boys (it is believed that they no longer weep) and more interested in social contacts. And the parents, according to studies, are going to work hard in order to engage the girl in the social relationships in which it will clearly express their emotions.

Example 2

I have observed and experienced often with my relatives that as soon as they know a child is a boy or a girl, their reaction or response change. They would ...