· Gender roles are socialised into children in the family and reinforced at school.
· It refers to the way how a child learns to act in manner which society appropriate to his or her sex.
· Parents expect their children to behave according to their sex.
· Males should be active, while females should be passive.
· Identity had been decided according to specific gender, e.g. blue for boys and pink are for girls.
Age as a social process
- Norms might be different according to age.
- The main idea, age is socially constructed.
- Because of age, we treat people differently.
- However, according to interactionists age is a symbol.
- Age divisions:
- childhood
- youth
- adulthood
- old age
Important key terms
- The Age status - the way that people receive different amounts of income and social prestige depending upon their age.
- Rite of passage - the ceremony that signifies leaving one stages of life and entering another.
- Transition - in sociology this means the period of change from being one age status to another, e.g. the period of change from being a child to being a youth.
Gender
- Definition: in terms of the particular cultural characteristics that people give to different biological sexes. We simply organize biological differences as the basis of sex labeling.
- In sociology gender differences are presented by labels such as: masculine and feminine. Labels- tell us how to behave.
- Males play instrumental role, females play expressive role.
- Male or female in our society means confirming to various cultural rules and expectations around what it means to the male or female. Rules develop because we live in a capitalists and patriarchal society.
- Glass ceiling - we can see ourselves but it is hard to reach, e.g. females has little opportunity in getting promoted.
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