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Terms | Definitions |
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 Socialization | the process through which individuals become skilled in the practices of a culture. ex: teaching kids languages, societal laws, socialization continues throughout our lives by getting a new job, moving to a new area. change in social status |
| gender socialization | the process through which we learn how or what is properly masculine and feminine in our society |
| agent of socialization | Parents- do things to socialize children with their appropriate gender, dress them in pink if their a girl, schools- they teach boys and girls about masculinity and femininity, and encourage careers based on gender peer groups- they do similar things based on their friends media- establishes and reinforce gender norms, strong man weak woman |
| social reproduction | the process of transferring social and cultural ideologies from generation to generation |
| social learning theory | the theory that behavior is learned through the observation of others as well as through the direct experience of rewards and punishments. |
| cognitive development theory | children actively construct knowledge as they manipulate and explore the world |
| gender schema theory | specific to gender socialization, a cognitive structure that allows us to sort characteristics into masculine and feminine, it convinces us that society cannot function without sex and gender categories, |
| controlling images | dominant images that denigrate and objectify certain groups and justify their subordination |
| heteronormativity | the cultural assumption that everyone is straight and wants to get married with the intention of procreation any deviation is looked down upon |
| social control | methods used to teach, persuade, or force a group's members, and even nonmembers, to comply with and not deviate from its norms and expectations |
| agents of social control | stigmatization- murmurs, whispers complaints, put downs pathologicalizing- thinking they have a mental disorder criminalization- penalized for not following gender norms, victimizing- threat or actual use of violence / beating same sex |
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