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Sociologists when discussing socialization are speaking of the norms and ideologies of society. The expectations of behavior in general society are the following: good behavior and common sense. The behaviors of society vary based upon religion or beliefs. Gender socialization is the process in which people see each other. This socialization starts as early as when you are still in the womb. To understand gender socialization as it relates to department stores I visited three local stores and searched one of the popular children’s store online to get a feel for how society displays and pushes gender socialization. When I visited the local Target store on Tuesday, February 27, I noticed as I was circling the children’s clothing section that …show more content…

Took at visit at Kohls on Sunday, February 25. One thing that I noticed that relates to both girls and boys are the stuffed animals and reading books to go along located at the checkout not only does this benefit their education and reading skills, but it relates to everyone because the money in this purchase goes back to those less fortunate. The organization of the clothing at Kohls starts with all the infant clothes in one location then has all the toddler and on clothing in a couple separate locations. The girls’ clothing is located directly across the infant and the boys have their own corner. Between all the stores that I visited in person I also looked at their websites to compare setups of what you they want the consumers to see first. Out of all the places I noticed that Toys R Us and Kohls calls the unisex section neutral online. In general, the kids clothing selection comes very similar. Boys clothing tends to have darker colors like red, orange, and brown. The designs on boys clothing comes with things like sports, animals such as dinosaurs, or action figures. Girls carry the colors pink, purple and anything with lighter color schemes. The designs for girls intend to have princess themed designs, anything light fluffy, and bedazzled. The colors blue, green, yellow, and grey can go both ways for the

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She insisted on wearing red-and-white checked overalls-just like X’s” (5). Throughout the story, X’s overalls symbolize nonconformity to the gender, as they are not girl or boy-coded like the Other Children's pink or blue clothes, which Susie’s change

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“Believe What You Want” What is it that shoppers are looking for when they walk into a store? The simplest answer is they don’t know what it really is ,but the store does. It is in Ann Norton’s article,” The Signs of Shopping” , that she reveals that within malls between woman there is a community of taste that is created as a culture. There is an opportunity for independence that they can enjoy amongst themselves.

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Girls and boys toys have created a huge impact in america with the colors, and types of things they use to aim a specific item towards a single gender. In stores such as target the aisles are separated by so called boy colors and girl colors. Also toys are named different things just for an appeal to genders such as dolls and action figures, when they are really all the same thing. This affects our world because it shows that boys and girls have to get or buy certain things aimed

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Riley also discusses that boys and girls should be able to play with the toys they want to play with, no matter if they are gender based. Berk and Meyers explains when children do not think about if the toy is gender based and they are thinking about if the toy is interesting this is referred to as gender aschematic child, as Riley explains in the video, boys can play with girl toys and girls should be able to play with boy toys. According to Berk and Meyer when children display characteristics of both feminine and masculine characteristics this is called androgyny. Children should not feel guilt in the toys they are playing with, if they want to explore and play, parents and caregivers should be encouraging and not making them feeling shame or guilt about what they choose. When we can encourage children to pick what toys interests them we can provide more children with opportunities to display their masculine and feminine characteristics, having more

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According to the New York Times, “Boys’ toys and costumes tend to be associated with action or destruction: objects that move, characters that save the day and animals that prey. Girls’ toys and costumes are more passive: objects to be looked at, characters that are rescued and animals that are docile or pretty” (Miller). Parents give their sons with toy predators and toy

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Through my daily life I started to see more and more boy dressing as girl in shopping malls and then being criticized for it from our people. In Trumbull Mall I have seen a lot men dressing up as a female, but they were acting like guys. I went back to this article “ What’s So Bad About a

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I believe that it was pretty even with the number of males and females in the store. As I made my way more into the store, I looked around at the checkout employees, and saw that they were also not the same ethnicity or ages. I finally made my way back to the toy section and saw all the different toys and noticed that the girl toys

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Dress codes targeted at females have become too strict and unrealistic. Between the developmental stages, and clothing stores with the items/styles they sell, there is not much females can do about it. Plus, they’re always being compared to the kids in younger grades even though younger kids are much less mature. Why is that? A big part of why female dress codes have become unrealistic is that they are developing more, and that means that certain things will look better than others, or certain things may be “more acceptable” than others.

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Also we have lots of pushchairs and dollies. Again we find lots of the boys like playing with the dollies and pushchairs. They play mummy and daddy games with the girls but its usually the boys you see pushing the baby along. All the resources we have in our setting is there for everyone to use. It is not just gender specific.

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Sociologists believe that socialization is developed throughout life because we all go through a lot of different situations between the moment we are born through the moment we die. As humans we can experience many different situations that can shift the way we view life. Some people experience many traumatizing situations in their life and it causes them to approach situations differently than people who haven’t been through anything horrific in their life span. There are other situations where people may even have a great childhood life but one thing has made them into a completely different person so they’re affected by anything that may remind them of that situation. The development of socialization is very important because it allows

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