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A 5 page paper which examines the ways in which gender roles are developed and reinforced, focusing primarily on the home, classroom and the workplace. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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values, and actions appropriate to individuals as members of a particular culture" (Schaefer and Lamm 92). This socialization leads to the development of gender roles for both sexes.
Sociologists have historically described gender roles as "expectations regarding the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females" (Schaefer and Lamm 106). Gender roles are established by society,
and compliance is regarded as mandatory. There are many factors that influence how gender roles are perceived, and these messages are conveyed through family, friends, mass media, religious affiliations
and educational institutions (Schaefer and Lamm 308). Gender identity is "the self-concept of a person as being male or female," and is largely dictated by tradition (Schaefer and Lamm 307-308).
The introduction of gender roles begins in the first moments of life when males get blue blankets and females receive pink ones (Schaefer and Lamm 305). These traditions
are deeply rooted within the family unit, and therefore, it comes as no surprise that parents emerge as the earliest and "most crucial agents of socialization" (Peters 913; Schaefer and
Lamm 308). Family activities are hardly "gender-blind;" they are specially constructed by parents so that their parents will easily assimilate into society (Peters 913). Boys are encouraged to
embrace active masculine characteristics that will emphasize aggressiveness and encourage competitiveness while girls are taught the finer points of feminine behavior, which involves passivity and submissiveness (Schaefer and Lamm 308).
In a 1982 study by Cogle and Tasker on household chores performed by children aged 6-17, girls were more likely to do conventionally female tasks like laundry and dishwashing
that are accomplished inside the home while boys can venture beyond those boundaries by doing yard work, repairing or maintaining vehicles, pet care and taking out the trash (Peters 913).
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