As soon as Grant started to play patty-cake with his classmate Emma, he was teased and ridiculed by the boys in the class. Grant quickly learned that patty-cake is a form of play that is reserved for girls and not boys. Grant's process of learning the roles of "maleness" and "femaleness" is __________.

A. a biological construct
B. gender socialization
C. a sex schema
D. sexual-social identity


Answer: B

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