Strong And Cohen: How People Are Socialized Into Gender

According to the Strong and Cohen some ways people are socialized into their gender is by the social learning theory, cognition, modeling, cognitive development theory, and agents of socialization (120). The social learning theory is derived from behaviorist psychology and it emphasizes on observable events and there consequences rather than people’s internal feelings and drives. We learn attitudes and behaviors through social interactions with others. Another way people are socialized into their gender is through cognition. This is a mental process that affects between the stimulus and the response of a person. For example, it plays a key role in our ability to talk, anticipate consequences, and make everyday observations. For the ability to talk, we can tell our daughter that we like it when she plays with dolls and we don’t like it when she plays with cars. This would be the

For example, the Strong and Cohen state most people identify themselves as a female or a male, usually (115). They emphasize on most and usually because gender identities can state both male and female living and acting as one, but at other times act and live as the other. Another negative is the belief on transgender. Some people still reject the idea of surgery for people who want to bring their biology in with how they identify themselves. These people believe to simply live in the gender with which they are identified as among society. A positive to gender identities is society is slowly accepting the different ways people identify themselves and even how they express themselves such as “bigendered”, “third gendered”, and “gender benders”. Another positive the book acknowledges is gender identities are far from being simply dichotomy of male and female, but instead varied so individuals can stand apart from the social norms society still wants to see (Strong and Cohen