Sociology of Gender 2/6 PDF

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Gender 2/6 Enculturated lens theory of gender formation  Bem’s argument: broad cultural beliefs laced into our social institutions shape our ideas, ident, and behavior -Gender polarization, androcentrism, biological essentialism -created scale of masculinity and feminity -gender beliefs steer us back, buil -even when we make efforts to tweak gender socialization, there is still a broad exposure to meta-messages about gender -its difficult to avoid, to be gender neutral Barbara Risman: Gender Vertigo-more families applied meeting 40/60 split. Kids were responsive to parents, but peers had a lot of influence -peer power: adolescents   

Parental gender socialization is the most often center of theories on gender socialization Parents don’t interact with sons/daughters differently Boys report more communication awkwardness

-parents differentially regulate kids’ behavior on basis of gender: adol-parents more restrictive of girls’ behavior -theres a shift of encouragement to go to college, expected to work, dual earner expectations for girls now 

Education, work, family, work/family conflict

-Emily Kane: toys, activities, roles used to socialize the gender to children specifically. -when parents confronted with kids not conforming, they were comfortable with girls but not boys-doll example -dads were more worried of changing roles as a result of the dads own masculinity -the mother were concerned about the behavior being gender deviant to peers  Martin and Luke: what messages do parents give to kids before adolescents -in general parents teach kids to not think about sexuality, but kids may be getting it as messages -studies mothers reports of sexual socialization-only ask moms because theya re around the most -boys get lessons on what their body does and feels good, girls about how to reproduce -boys taught entitled to sexual satisfaction, not girls -mothers more comfortable talking to their daughters about sexuality...