Families play a role on an adolescent's gender and cultural identity. Families help you identify yourself as a female or male. Society confuses you with the stereotypical males and females. If a girl acts masculine this is viewed in society as being the opposite sex. Your family then plays a role on your perception of the idea society gives you. If your…
In the article, Learning to be Gendered by Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet, the effects of upbringing and society on a child’s gender identification are analyzed. Throughout the child’s development, they are often guided by the world around them into gender classifications. Society decides on norms for the child to follow based on their gender, then they would grow up to better match those ideals. This is important because if society pushes us towards these labels, it limited our ability to decide on what we perceive ourselves as without outside forces acting upon us. Some studies on the development of gender identities in children seem to show evidence towards the nurture side of gender. Often parents would speak to their child differently depending on their physical gender (740) or set their playing tendencies around gender specific toys (743). This sort of mentality seems to be heavily ingrained in our societal conventions, even those who attempt to do away with these patterns fail to overcome them.…
I was born male, and I am still that gender today. Being born a man is probably one of the biggest influences in my life because it has directed my hobbies and interests since I was a young. Like many other males I liked more video games and sports as a child. I took an interest in computers as well, which has helped decide what degree I will receive from college. Being male has majorly affected my identity.…
Gender socialization, or the “patterns of behavior taught to children and adults in order to help them learn to behave as acceptable females or males,” begins strikingly early in life (Disch 1). While society as a whole is responsible for carrying out such socialization, many researchers believe that the strongest influence on gender role development seems to occur within the family setting, with parents passing on, both overtly and covertly, their own beliefs about gender (Witt 1). Because parents have the strongest initial influence and control over the early gender socialization their children undergo, they also have the potential to end the cycle of oppressive gender socialization most children experience from birth onward, and eventually…
There are numerous influences that contribute to one’s gender identity. The way in which a person is raised, or nurture that one receives as a child can aid in the formation of gender identity. Parents typically vision their offspring as male or female, and as the boy or girl ages they tend to assume one or the other; masculine or feminine traits. Another possible important factor in the determination of gender identity is culture and the society in which one is a part of. Some may formulate their gender identity according to social norms and how they appear to…
Children get familiar with gender roles through several ways, such as parents' behaviors, school education and media images, and then try to make adaption to those models society desires. Parents play the most influential role when young people developing the ideas about gender. For one things, parents having a plenty of time getting along with kids, children easily accept the silent transforming effect of the interaction, which changes itself into the basic concept viewing gender roles. For instance, even though there are advertisements showing a father makes dinner or looks after children, people tend to think of the picture mothers attending to her kids more naturally. On the other hand, opinions about…
A person begins to realize his identity from eighteen months to two years. Then, from age five to seven, they determine their gender and persist. So how it happens? The answer is they learn by sight and absorption from their surroundings despite their anatomy. They want to see what and how the society sees them. As a result, the society grouped people according to their characteristics. The feminine is marked by submission and passively. Masculinely is aggressive and dominance.…
According to one study, what percentage of undergraduates wanted to marry a traditional husband and / or a traditional wife? (p. 35)…
Gender identity develops around age three and is almost impossible to change after that. Some of the factors that determine gender identity are genetics, family, society, culture and sex hormones such as testosterone, estrogen and progesterone. Gender identity is how we view ourselves sexually as male or female. This is usually consistent with the gender we were born with. However; there is what they consider a third gender where the sex a person is born with is not the sex they view themselves as. Many times this gender will decide to have the sex organs they were born with removed and changed to the opposite sex, this is transexualism.…
Gender refers to the attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that a given culture associates with a person’s biological sex. Sex refers to a person’s biological status and typically categorizes them as male, female, or intersex. They are not the same thing. Gender is how one acts to express or communicate their gender. (American Psycology Association, 2011)…
The way my father performed his gender has shaped the performance of my gender. My dad also first and foremost always talked about raising me and my brothers as men but not as a binary concept but what he felt manhood represented. That involved in many things such as playing lots of sports or learning how to fight and other activities such as fishing. Although my dad never forced me to play sports it was always a staple in my household and I would we be mocked when I stopped playing a sport out of boredom. My dad constructed my gender self to view men as a group who had to become strong, fast, aggressive, dominant, and achieving in order to fit into society. This interaction with my family has caused my gender construction with other to be…
Gender roles are an incredibly important factor when it comes to our identity. Gender is multidimensional, meaning that there are psychological, social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions to gender (Strong & Cohen, pg 110). On some of these dimensions, gender can be highly personal, and on others it is considered political. If I were the opposite gender, I believe that I would be an incredibly different person. I believe this because of the significant stress that is put on gender roles.…
From a young age it is clear that we are given the concept of gender roles and gender based beliefs. As humans we are born as masculine (generally males) and…
The determination of gender identity is much deeper than whether a person is born a male or a female. The exact identifier that separates gender identity is currently unknown but researchers believe that genetics, hormones, reproductive organs, biological, and environmental factors all play a role in distinguishing a person’s gender identity. A person’s physical gender and their sense of gender are formed at two different times in two different parts of the body. A person’s gender is whether they are born male or female, but the way they identify themselves may be the opposite, which is not uncommon and has occurred since the beginning of time. In culture males are known to be the stronger, more aggressive sex, while females are the fairer, more nurturing sex. Usually, by the age of four, individuals have identified their gender identities aside from what gender they were born as physically. Throughout this paper, I will discuss the biological factors of gender identity (nature), environmental factors (nurture), and the role between hormones and behavior, and how these interactions all affect the determination of one’s gender identity.…
People are not born to know what is proper for each gender to do. We all have had some experiences that taught us how to be a boy or a girl. Family and teachers are the two main socialization agents we faced when we were first gender-socialized. Children were taught to wear different colors and types of clothes for different gender. They were made to take different courses, like cooking class for girls and carpentry class for boys. Also, children were taught to behave differently due to their genders. However, among those examples above, the education of gender we have received is what influenced us most during gender socialization.…