Gender Role Socialization Flashcards
It is a lifelong process of learning to become a member of the social world.
Socialization
It is a lifelong experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn culture.
Socialization
It is a process of internalizing society’s values in order to adapt to one’s culture. It influences how people behave as males and females in the society.
socialization
encompasses the process of learning society’s gender roles and their advantages and limitations
Gender socialization
How much personality is determined by our biological inheritance.
The Role of Nature
how much personality is determined by social-cultural environment.
The Role of Nurture
The most important agent of socialization for children. Their values and behavior patterns profoundly influence those of their daughters and sons.
Family ( AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION)
Induce us to violate social norms. however these people only affect short term interest unlike the family which has long term influence
Peer ( AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION)
teach set of expectations about the work, proffesion , or occupations they will follow when they mature.
school ( AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION)
they have the formal responsibility of imparting knowledge in those disciplines which are most central to adult functioning in our society.
school ( AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION)
In here, a person meets people of different age groups and belonging to different social and cultural backgrounds.
workplace ( AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION)
Television shows, movies, popular music, magazines, websites, and other aspecys of mass media influence our ________, tastes in _________, our views of _________, _________ and __________; and many other beliefs and practices.
political views, pop culture, women, people of color, gays,
Many religious institutions uphold gender norms and contribute to their enforcement through socialization. Religion fosters a shared set of socialized values that are passed on through society.
Church
a number of roles attached to a single status
role set
occurs when incompatible demands are built into a single statud that a person occupies
role conflict
refers to the stress when, for any number of reasons, an individual cannot meet the demands of their social roles
role strain
occurs when people disengage from social roles that have been central to their identity ( divorced women and men, retirees, ex nuns)
role exit
it is the process of learning and internalizing culturally approved ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving according to one’s gender
Gender Role Socialization
these are fixed, unquestiones beliefs, or images we carry in the back of our mind about women and men
gender stereotypes
refers to any situation where a person is denied an opportunity or misjudged solely on the basis of their sex. It is when someone is treated unequally or disadvantageously based on their _______ but not necessarily in a sexual nature.
Gender discrimination, gender
these are highly resistant to change due to continuos exposure and reinforcement of gender differentiation
gender roles
Four processes in Child’s Learning of Gender Bias
Manipulation Canalization, Verbal appellation, activity exposure
these is where people treat boys and girls differently
manipulation
people will direct their attentin to gender appropriate objects exemplified by toys
canalization
words used to tell children what they are
verbal appellation
children are familiarized with appropriate task
activity exposure
___________ to communicate thoughts or idea in the most pervasive institution of socialization
Language
____________ , no matter how subtle, very easily maintain gender ideology
Sexist terms, man, he
________ depicting women as martyrs, self-sacrificing and conservative
churches/religion
these are the most effective socializing agent; subtle and often subconscious way plus lomg amount of time people expose to them
mass media, print and broadcast
_________ are deep seated in the culture as well as beliefs and value systems of the society.
Gender Roles
_________ further reinforces, maintains, and sanctions gender roles.
Pervasive social control
THE ABC MODEL
A = Affect ( prejudice)
B = Behavior ( discrimination)
C= cognitive ( stereotypes)
It is an inaccurate view or opinion that many people hold about something in a group of people based solely or large;y on the way they appear to others.
Stereotyppe
Two ways to identify stereotypes
Explicit (deliberately think about), implicit ( unaware
These are unjustified or incorrect attitude towars an individual based soley on the individual’s membership of a social group. Preconcieved idea of something
prejudice
examples of prejudice
bullying, discrimination, violence
when one individual or group is trested less favorably than other due to a person’s or group’s background or specific personal characteristics.
discrimination
examples of discirimination
genocide, apartheid, gender and LGBT discrimination
The process which forces women out into the
periphery of economic and social life; on the
periphery of decision making, as well as
diminishing the value of the activities in which
they contribute to the national development
process
Marginalization (MANIFESTATIONS OF GENDER BIAS)
Is the institutionalized domination by men and
women
• Position (very few women in politics and top
positions)
• Status (weaker sex)
• Decision making (women are not included in
planning and decision-making process.)
VISION: Quality participation in decision
making, recognition of capabilities
Subordination
Involvement in the three spheres of work:
reproduction, production, and community work
(parenting, housework, work in the public/private
sector).
VISION: Shared parenting, shared housework;
shared breadwinning.
multiple burden
• Fixed, unquestioned beliefs or images we carry in the
back of our minds about men and women
VISION: Liberation from stereotyped images: nonsexist
child rearing, non-sexist language.
Gender stereotypes