SOC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Ponytail, Bsc Young Boys, Cross-Dressing
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The identification as male or female has nothing to do with genitalia, but more with your clothing, makeup, hairdo - personal front . Empirical exploration of the contributions of appearance management to young children"s gender socialization. After birth, immediately identified as a boy or a girl. Without a hint (with clohting usually), you have no idea if an infant is a boy or girl. Usual indications of masculinity/femininity are unreliable (body shape, physical strength, frequency of smiling) An infant"s gender changes how we view them. Different reasons for crying: boys out of anger, girls out of fright. Children learn that their social environment has 2 categories of ppl through language. But they can"t distinguish bw the two without observing perceptible similarities. They begin to develope tentative hypotheses about the criteria of others" application of sex-identifying terms. Kid called him daddy bc he had a beard too. Shows the perceptual similarity and differences between genders.
