Question

What are the major socialization agents that teach us our gender roles?

Answer 1

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❦And as children get older, gender roles continue to be reinforced by different groups.

❦We call the groups that promote or enforce social norms and roles agents of socialization.

❦Gender socialization occurs through four major agents of socialization: family, education, peer groups, and mass media.

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Answer 2

The view that gender roles are socially constructed, that

society and culture create the roles, and that these roles are what is generally

considered appropriate behavior for a person of that specific gender. Social construction of gender is a part of

feminism.

Social constructivists propose that gender is constructed

by social expectations and gender performance. Essentialist notions of gender difference

are being challenged increasingly by research on the social construction of gender.

Judith Lorber is a foundational

theorist of social construction of gender difference and has played a vital role in the

formation and transformation of gender studies.

Linking theories of gender to mainstream theories on

social movements helps us recognize gender as a key factor in social movements and also to

identify the role that social movements play in the social construction of gender. -

Gender And Social Movements - Gender Processes in Women's Self-Help Movements