Dear Parent; I want to take this opportunity to introduce myself and express my excitement about working with your son. My name is Gulnihal and your son‚ Mahir‚ is enrolled in my class this semester. I am really glad to welcome you and your child. The main goal of writing to you this letter is to inform you about the value of play for children’s physical‚ social‚ emotional‚ and mental development. Primarily‚ I will describe what play is both in theory and in practice. And then‚ I will
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The term gender role refers to societies concept of how men and women are expected to act and behave. We are taught gender roles from infancy‚ for example girls wear pink and play with dolls. Boys wear blue and are tough. For this socialization experiment‚ I have picked two different children’s toys; one clearly aimed towards girls and the other aimed towards boys. For the toy aimed towards girls‚ I have chosen the Barbie STEM kit. For the toy aimed towards boys I have chosen the DC Justice League
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Toy Store Exercise For this social experiment I chose to go to the Ponderay Dollar Store and Wal-Mart Chains. In these stores I found that there was a big difference in the separation of genders between aisles in their respective stores. In Wal-Mart there were two aisles of boys and two aisles of girl’s toys with one mixed in the middle of both. They were separated based on the beginning color of the end of the row‚ either blue or pink and purple. It is also noticeable that the toys of the respective
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As early as two years old or somewhere around the age when a child beings to attend school‚ children have an understanding of what their gender is. They are either a male or female and they know this for several reasons. Gender roles are learned by children in a variety of ways. One of them being how children’s play and what toys they play with. According to Introduction to Sociology (2014)‚ Socialization is the social process through which children develop an awareness of social norms and values
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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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members of society” (Lindsey et al.‚ 2006‚ p. 56). Today‚ social scientists define gender and sex as two very distinct realities (Lindsey et al.‚ 2006‚ p. 114). Sex is defined as the biological traits that differentiate male and female while gender is the psychological‚ cultural and social traits that are in relation to male and female and identify people as masculine or feminine (Lindsey et al.‚ 2006‚ p. 114). Gender stereotypes are common ideologies concerning what constitutes as feminine and masculine
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Should Toys Be More Gender-Neutral? This topic is one that does hit me close to home because I have a ten year old sister and a few other cousins younger than her. Though I did not really think about this topic much until now. It is the twenty-first century after all‚ shouldn’t gender-neutral toys be a thing? With this I researched this topic more with this help of my sister to learn more about. Though sadly I do believe that toys should be more gender-neutral even though they currently aren’t.
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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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Disney is designed to entertain and capture the attention of kids. Disney is not only creating a market based solely on children it is telling these kids who and what is beautiful and desirable. This was clearly the goal of the Flagship Disney store that I walked into at the South Shore Plaza Mall in Braintree‚ MA. It was amazing to see the imaginary worlds of Disney movies captured in the cold‚ hard‚ sophisticated products of the capitalistic machine. Forget the adults‚ they might as well be
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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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