The Role Of Gendered Identity In Socializing Children

Gender socialization takes place in our everyday lives whether we subconsciously know it or not. Gender socialization is the socially learned expectations and behaviors associated with members of each gender. For example, If I were to say it takes my friend at least 45 minutes to do their hair before school everyday, you would assume I am speaking about a friend who is a female as opposed to a friend who is male. This is because of the idea of gender socialization.

Although these perceptions may not recognize various gender differences in language, Johnson provides studies that explain the role of gender shaping discourse. Within Johnson’s section “Gendered Language Patterns in Adulthood” Johnson discusses how men and women create different ways to “voice” their existence and relatedness to others (523). Through studies of gender divisions in topicality, Johnson states that women favor personal and submissive topics and men stick to dominant topics. Johnson makes the distinction that “cross-gender talk differs in topic focus of either women-to-women or man-to-man talk” (523).

When comparing these amazing TV shows, there are similarities and a lot differences between them. However, one thing most certainly remained the same: the love they had for one another. While watching a healthy dose of both shows, there are some differences between them in regards to gender roles and socialization, family structure portrayal and parent-child interactions across the board. In The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, the audience was introduced to a new nuclear family. This seemed like the new norm as some would call it ideal because there was an evident decline from the traditional extended family. During the 1940’s and 1950’s, families were always diverse. Comparing their family style to that of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the idea of a nuclear family was accepted and integrated by most during that time. As time goes on, we, as a community, become more accepting to changes within a family so they become the norm for society. In the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, we saw an extended family living together as a poor black boy who grows up in inner-city Philadelphia moves with his wealthy, upscale family. The family structures between these 2 shows were complete opposites of each other. In the Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, you have the parents, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson and their 2 children, David and Ricky Nelson. This family structure, as mentioned earlier, would be described as a nuclear family, consisting of the most basic unit of family possible. On the other

The ways of the past are becoming more and more obsolete as the years go by, because our society is rewriting how we should live our lives on a daily basis. With this world constantly changing we have shattered our socialization for the worst when nit comes to communication with other people on a daily basis. Mealtimes have become scares, because everyone wants to do their own thing, get done quick for the day light is fleeting fast, and most importantly no one has anything to talk about when they come home. According to Elinor and Shohet in their article "The Cultural Structuring Of Mealtime Socialization” expresses the issue of mealtime socializing. They state the mealtimes are more of a tradition passed down from generation to generation and then becomes a symbol with in a home. (Elinor and Shohet, 36) With them implying that parents actually have to take effort in passing this tradition down to their children and so forth has become a dying art form, because of the lack of parenting and teaching. According to Mona and Benga their article "The Relationship Between Cultural Model, Socialization Goals And Parental Ethnotheories: A Mixed Method Study” Brings up a lot of good points about how children learn from their parents. There are three main key factors that help out with these socialization issues passed on to each generation. They are, Parental Cultural Models,

Brinkman, B. G., K. L. Rabenstein, L. A. Rosen, and T. S. Zimmerman. “Children 's Gender

In our society, there are norms of what is considered to be feminine and what is to be considered masculine, but how are these norms constructed? Through the use of toys, books, and clothing, children are socialized into their “appropriate” gender. These objects provide influence over behavior and appearance, showing boys and girls what is appropriate for each gender. After some investigation it was found that the toys, books, and clothing that children use not only foster the norms of gender behavior and appearance, but also construct gender roles in their young minds.

In this session, I will discuss the gender roles in my family. The definition of gender role is the degree to which a person adopts the gender-specific behaviors ascribed by his or her culture (Matsumoto, D. R., & Juang 2013, 156). For example, traditional gender roles recommend that males are aggressive, angry, and unemotional. It goes further and explains that the male should leave the home every day to make a living and be the main wage earner. The traditional gender role for the female purpose is to stay at home and care for the children. It explains that the female is to be nurturing, caring, and emotional (Matsumoto, D. R., & Juang 2013, 156). These traditional roles for female and male are the opposite of one another. It is believed that the culture is likely to influence our perception about gender role in a family. In my family, my parents utilize the traditional gender role. Growing up, my father went to work every day and my mother stayed home with me and my sister. I believe my parents were influence by their parents and their culture to be traditional gender role parents. My father explained to me that they chose traditional parenting role because both sides of the family utilized traditional parenting gender roles. I believe my parents felt pressure to obtain the gender roles of the mother staying home with the children while the father worked. However, when my younger sister was old enough to go to school, my mother started to work. It was believed that when

Gender Identity became a core aspect of feminism and LGBT politics in recent time and with it freedom for people to express themselves in the way they want. I want to argue that this freedom is a double-edged sword and its negatives could have the potential to outweigh its positives.

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

Australian sociologist, Connell, has provided theories in order to aid in understanding the way in which gender is manifested and shapes the experience of illness. Her Gender, Health and Theory publication ultimately views gender as a product of socialisation (Connell, 2012). According to Connell, Gender is seen as “the active social process that brings reproductive bodies into history, generating health consequences not as a side-effect but in the making of gender itself” (Connell, 2012, p.1675). Her work ultimately emphasises that gender differences are formed by the expectations of society, confining the ways in which males and females should act (Connell, 2012). Connell’s Masculinities theory furthers this concept. She defines masculinity as a set of perceived notions and principles about the way in which men should or are expected to act (Connell, 1995). She highlights that society dictates ways of being masculine and “unmasculine,” with “unmasculine” typically insinuating femininity (Connell, 1995). She also argues that “the terms “masculine” and “feminine” point beyond categorical sex difference to the ways men differ among themselves, and women differ among themselves, in matters of gender” (Connell, 1995, p.69). Masculinities are often favored over femininities, as men in general are paid better, enjoy more social freedom and hold other benefits that women do not due to their gender (Connell, 1995). Therefore, women as a group typically lack the societal power that

Gender identity is an outlet many people use to express how comfortable they are with being masculine, feminine, both, or neither.  Many kids are harassed at a young age because they do not feel comfortable with themselves. Teaching gender identity to children would help them find where they comfortably stand on the issue. Teaching children who are already comfortable in their gender identity would show more empathy for kids who struggle with their identity, and it would create a more educated world when in effect.

In my opinion I do think that the attitudes and gender identity statements that is discussed in this discussion question still exist today in our society. I think that this exist because I have heard my aunts and grandmother say the some of the statements that is listed in this discussion question. I think that caregivers and educators response should be that they are exploring their environment therefore let them learn through play. We as adults should promote safe physical; and motor development in children. Our textbook mentions that “ knowledge of expected patterns and sequences of physical and motor development helps adults to appreciate each child’s unique capabilities and interest and gives direction to the provision of growth-enhancing experiences for children”(The Young Child Development from Prebirth Through Age Eight, n.d). Therefore we as adults must must allow the child to engage in play if its not a safety issue. I think that if the child is not given the opportunity to enhance their developmental skills then the adult can hinder their developmental capabilities and needs.

In our society, when people see or hear the terms: gender assignment, gender identity, gender expression, or gender roles, they usually think of these as synonymous. In fact, that is quite the opposite. To understand these terms and how they connect to those in the world, we must first define the meanings. Before we define the terms, we must look at the difference between gender and sex. Sex refers to our biological selves whereas gender refers to anything that is beyond the biological spectrum.

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

The book An Intorduction of Sociolinguistics is an outstanding introductary book in the field of sociolinguistics. It encompasses a wide range of language issues. In chapter 13, Wardhaugh provides a good insight to the relationship between language and gender. He explains gender differences of language-in-use with concise examples. Wardhaugh riases questions about sexist language and guides readers to look closer at how people use language differently because of their own gender in daily life. According to the Whorfian hypothesis, which indicates that the way people use language reflects their thoughts, different genders adapt different communication strategies.