Gender Roles
In today’s society everyone takes on gender roles that will determine the way they think, act and react with other people but where do they come from? Many people, such as scientists, believe gender roles are a result of biology and our genetic makeup, however the authors of many psychology books and myself believe they are a result of social influence; “ the process whereby our society conveys behavioral expectations to the individual”(Crooks, Baur 59). People learn their expected behavior and gender roles through observing the behavior of people such as parents, peers, teachers, and the media.As soon as we are born gender roles are placed on us and we begin to learn the way we are expected to act. For example, “ children use gender as an organizing theme to classify and understand perceptions about the world”(Lefton 319). Children get many ideas about how they are supposed to behave, and that there are many differences between boys and girls simply by the way they are treated by their parents as a child. Boys are usually treated a little rougher than girls and get bounced around on their parent’s knees more often, where girls on the other hand, are cuddled and treated delicately. The toys children are given are also dif
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