Socialization and the Learning of Gender Roles

The term socialization refers to "a lifelong social experience in the development of human possibilities and learning culture". [Macionis et al. The concept of socialization is that our actions are moved / learned by culture. Socialization is also the foundation of personality, internalizing the surrounding environment and establish personality. Throughout the lifelong process of socialization, society transfers culture from one generation to the next. A good example of socialization is to learn sex role.

Gender socialization Henslin (1999) argues that "an important part of socialization is to learn the role of gender in cultural definition" (p. 76). Gender socialization refers to learning behavior and attitude considered suitable for a specific gender. The boy learns to be a boy and the girl learns to be a girl. This 'learning' is caused by various social factors. This family is of course important in strengthening the role of men and women, but it also applies to friends, schools, workplaces, and mass media. Henslin (1999, p. 76) stated that gender roles are being "reinforced by a number of subtle, but not subtle ways".

The fourth group of accounts represents the difference between socialization of men and women and learning of gender roles. Two important theories of gender socialization are social learning theory and gender schema theory. According to social learning theory, children learn the gender role appropriate to their physical sex through operational conditioning and potential learning (eg, Mischel, 1966). Thus, social agents (eg, parents, colleagues, and teachers) may reward children for competing for gender-incompatible media content and punish children's consumption for inconsistent media content of media content (or at least Avoiding reward). In addition, children can learn the preferences of gender media by observing and imitating the same gender role model. Although social learning theory focuses on acquiring gender behavior, gender schema theory focuses on cognitive expression of gender role.

According to gender role theory, boys and girls learn to express physiologically specified sex of a person through specific behavior and attitude. Gender role theory emphasizes the environmental contribution of social roles and the impact of socialization, or the transmission of norms, values, beliefs and actions to group members to learn how to act as a man or woman. Social role theory thinks that social structure is a potential force to distinguish gender and that sexual behavior is promoted by division of labor between men and women in society. Departmental labor unions create a gender role that leads to gender social behavior