Gender socialization is known to be one of the biggest influencer on how we become socialized. It dictates what kind of behaviour, attitude and characteristics are expected from us depending on our sex. Gender stereotyping is formed from the idea of each gender is supposed to behave. This type of socialization have been effective up to the 20th century; but society is a system that is constantly changing. In modern time, these stereotypes seems to be no longer true. Though people may disagree, but I would like to argue that gender socialization has lost its effectiveness in teaching people how to behave. To prove this, I will show that regardless of being treated differently than the opposite gender, our role in the house may vary; there is no longer a negative cogitation to behaving like the opposite sex; and (third argument).
From the day that we are born, we are already being socialised into our gender role. We are dressed differently, have different extracurricular activity, and treated differently than the opposite sex. One major source of influence on how we behave is by watching how our parent of the same sex behave. If you are a female you would watch what kind of tasks a mother would do and learn what kind of behaviour is expected from her at home. This would mean that the …show more content…
To prove this, we examined that in modern day families, there are different variation of how families functions where the traditional role of the mother and father is not necessarily followed. It is also shown that there is no longer negative cogitation to people who deviate from their gender roles which may have prevented them from deviating from their gender role. Through the observation of families adopting different roles and society changing to be more acceptable to deviation from gender roles, it is evident that gender socialization has lost its ability to
From the day that we are born, we are already being socialised into our gender role. We are dressed differently, have different extracurricular activity, and treated differently than the opposite sex. One major source of influence on how we behave is by watching how our parent of the same sex behave. If you are a female you would watch what kind of tasks a mother would do and learn what kind of behaviour is expected from her at home. This would mean that the …show more content…
To prove this, we examined that in modern day families, there are different variation of how families functions where the traditional role of the mother and father is not necessarily followed. It is also shown that there is no longer negative cogitation to people who deviate from their gender roles which may have prevented them from deviating from their gender role. Through the observation of families adopting different roles and society changing to be more acceptable to deviation from gender roles, it is evident that gender socialization has lost its ability to