SOC317H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Infant
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Slide: outline: toys as agents of socialization, ii. Kids" desire for stuff specifically socialization of gender all of the readings mentioned this, but 2 really focused on it. Classed parenting styles growth of the market and the supply of toys and desiring all this stuff, how parent might react to all of this: iii. Christine williams" ethnography of a toy store (reading) gender/race/class. The readings this week pretty much all argued that toys can be analyzed as agents of socialization, and agents of socialization of gender more specifically. Toys: agents of (gender) socialization: if we look at a series of toys that are marketed to children,,, Slide: [photo of a doll: she has cleaning instruments, girl stuff is written a couple of times, hairdressing, makeup stuff, no subtlety in this presentation of objects. Slide: the blue. : thomas and his blue things , yeachan and his blue things .
