Gender Socialization Theory Paper

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I chose the gender socialization theory because of things that were mentioned in the video by a couple of the individuals. With the theory of gender socialization, you have such behaviors and attitudes that contribute to an individual’s role in the family. The family will function like any other family regardless of gender. You usually have parents and children when talking about families. Some families you have single mother households, two father and/or two mother households and the “tradition” father and mother households. Some households have the mother as the head of household, which means she is the one that has a high paying job and because of the job it brings in most of their income. Traditionally it has always been the man who is

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