"Members of a social group neither make up gender as they go along nor exactly replicate in rote fashion what was done before. In almost every encounter, human beings produce gender, behaving in the ways they learned were appropriate for their gender, or resisting or rebelling against these norms" (Lorber). The world that exists today divides up masculinity and femininity into an either or category. As children grow up and experience the world, they fall within the male world, or the female world. From the day of birth a child is sex-typed and socialized as either a girl or a boy through the ...

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... 24 hours after they are born (Thorne 1993). Children internalize parental messages at a young age. Sex role differences have been found in children as young as two years old. Developmental Psychology states, "children at two and a half years of age use gender stereotypes in negotiating their world and are likely to generalize gender stereotypes to a variety of activities, objects, and ... influence, with parents providing gender specific toys. Parents encourage participation in sex-typed activities, including doll playing and housekeeping for girls, and playing with action figures and t...

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