The term socialization is the process of learning socially accepted behavior from the society. Socialization is the learning process through which every individual acquire skills and knowledge to live an acceptable life in the society. Those people who failed to cope of with norms and values of society are always alienated from the society. Gender affects the term socialization. Socialization of gender begins from the very early start of childhood. Children are taught to act in certain ways which depend upon their gender. Society and gender are dependent to each other. Society norms and ideologies change according to gender. A girl is taught different ways to adapt in a society than compared to a boy or we can say society has more norms and rules for girls and same rules and norms can be changed for boys but girls have to stick to it throughout the course of her life.
Family is the first stage of gender socialization. Gender is the key point that helps parents to guide how to raise their children. Family is a primary home where children learn what means to be boy or girl. If a baby girl is born in the family, pink becomes her dressing code as well as if a baby boy is born than he is all dressed …show more content…
We can easily see how gender doing is difference among boys and girls. Having working in target store for more than 4 years, i have seen children behaving differ in stores according to their gender. When i walk to the toys department, i can easily figure out what sections belong to girl and what aisle for boy. The boys aisle is all blue with toys signifying masculinity such as a macho man carrying weapon, racing cars, dinosaurs etc. whereas girls aisle is all pink with princess , doll house, butterflies etc. that portrait feminist. Thus the entire male child is in blue aisle and female child is in pink aisle, both are very busy engaging in their respected gender in public