Explain why parents socialize children’s emotions in stereotypical ways. Specifically, how does this shape our gender roles into adulthood?
What will be an ideal response?
Parents’ patterns of socialization likely reflect the roles that they anticipate sons and daughters will hold in adulthood. Men’s roles focus on employment, where competition, power, and control are thought to be functional. Boys are therefore shaped not to express their emotions, especially emotions that would reveal vulnerability. Women’s roles focus on caregiving, whether as mothers or in occupations such as teacher or nurse. Girls are therefore socialized for qualities such as warmth and empathy. At the same time, in their anticipated lower status roles, they can express vulnerability by revealing fear and sadness. Through this socialization, we learn what is acceptable and unacceptable in the culture we live in and fall into the gender roles our society expects us to enact and perpetuate.
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