Let’s say you’re a little girl in a toy store. You walk down the aisles‚ touching all of the toys available to you. How lovely to have all of these things to play with! You finally land on a box of action figures. When you show them to your mother‚ she wrinkles her nose at the superheroes and army men. “Wouldn’t you like a doll instead?” she asks. You don’t know how to answer. Maybe she’s right. After all‚ that’s what all the other girls want. Now you’re a little boy‚ and you don’t want those
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Gender and the Toy Store How do kids learn how to “act like a girl” or “act like a boy”? If gender is not biological but must be learned‚ then it is important to look at the ways we teach kids in our society how to “do gender” correctly. Kids learn gender in many different arenas and from many different people. One way kids learn about appropriate gender behavior is through toys. This assignment requires that you visit a toy store and take note of how toys are marketed differently to girls and
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corner‚ all the children are eager to purchase toys that create everlasting memories of their childhood‚ reflecting simplicity and innocence .However‚ the modern world has manipulated the public and children respectively over the past years through supplying sexist products called gender stereotyped toys.Gender stereotyped toys are tools of intellect that inflict discriminating gender schemas into children which subsequently alters their perception of gender and limits the freedom of children’s play
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Children would most likely learn certain gender role jobs. This was shown in lots of the toys as I was collecting my data. An example would be Legos‚ they represent any construction type of job where they build things‚ and they are found in the boy’s section of the toy department so‚ mostly boys buy/play with Legos. Therefore kids are learning that a construction type of job correlates with men doing that type of job because only boys play with it. However‚ Legos introduced there Lego friends line
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Activity 2 On Friday‚ March 3rd‚ at 10:23am‚ I walked into Toys-R-Us remembering how fun and exciting this store was when I was a young child. When I was little‚ however‚ I never thought about the wonderful toys in these stores being gender stereotyped. These toys can drastically influence children’s gender identities‚ or their experience of their own gender. The first obvious “girl” toy that I saw was close to the entrance against the wall. There were five shelves‚ maybe five feet in width. There
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Usually when someone goes to the toy aisles in a store‚ he will most likely notice the high contrast between the frilly pinks of the girls’ aisle and the dark blues of the boys’. He will then go into the aisle pertaining to the gender of the child he is shopping for. Down the blue aisle‚ there will most likely be trucks‚ superheroes‚ and toy guns. Princesses‚ barbies‚ and toy kitchen sets are usually found in the pink aisle. Many people in society have recently been striving for equality among
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their own‚ even though the “Baby Newborn” doll is just automated. To take care of the “Baby Newborn” doll‚ you must the importance to always look good. Also‚ toys such as‚ “Super Hair Creations‚” “Glamour Girl Set‚” Manicure Mania‚” and “Scent Salon Beauty‚” also‚ stresses the importance of beauty‚ along with the “Barbie” dolls. These toys teach girls at a young age that obsessing over the way you look is important and what society only may seem to accept. As blinded young girls may be by the stereotypes
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Gender Roles and Toys By Shawna Robb English 101 Professor Solomon One room has pretty pink wallpaper with a princess border; the other is blue with monster trucks on one-wall and sports pictures on another. It is not hard to tell which room is female and which room is male. Male and female are used in this instance to define genders. Gender‚ unlike sex‚ is a universal guideline upon which individuals are placed. Gender refers to the socially constructed roles‚ behavior‚ and activities
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Toys‚ Packaging‚ and Gender Stereotypes There is a visibly blatant distinction when walking into a toy store or isle of the divide of gender differences and interests. Pink is a standout color amongst half of the space‚ and blue sticks out amongst the other half. There are stereotypical notions‚ which attach the color pink to girls and blue to boys. The color-coded aisles reflect some kind of innate gender difference and assumed interests. What type of message is this form of visual culture sending
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Petras October 24‚ 2012 Sociology 120 Mon&Wed 1230-145 ‘Toy’ Assignment 1. Start with the logistics of your research: When‚ where‚ etc. did you complete your fieldwork? Be specific. On October 24‚ 2012 I woke up and went to Target in Rancho San Diego. I walked in and went straight to the Toy Isle‚ because I didn’t want to be tempted to buy anything. 2. Describe three or four toys from the sections and explain how the toys you observed serve to socialize children into roles. What values
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