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What is gender socialization? How do the media shape our concept of gender? Illustrate your answer with examples.
 
In today’s society, there are different expectations of attitudes and behaviors from people based on their gender identity. Media plays a big role in shaping our concepts of gender as it provides cues to the person making the attribution. Gender socialization is the learning process of the social expectations and attitudes corresponding with one’s sex. In the world today, peopl...
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Constructing Women and Men • Marlene Mackie• ISBN 9780039218454
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What is gender socialization? How do the media shape our concept of gender? Illustrate your answer with examples.
 
In today’s society, there are different expectations of attitudes and behaviors from people based on their gender identity. Media plays a big role in shaping our concepts of gender as it provides cues to the person making the attribution. Gender socialization is the learning process of the social expectations and attitudes corresponding with one’s sex. In the world today, peopl...
For the world today, the media is a highly dependent source of information about the universe in which we live. It has been asserted that the media is one of predominant means of attaining information where we can have a substantial understanding of the world. Another viewpoint is that people consider the media to play an influential role in shaping our beliefs and perspectives. This is a process called ‘representations’. The media representations are how the media interprets the world or wh...
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For the world today, the media is a highly dependent source of information about the universe in which we live. It has been asserted that the media is one of predominant means of attaining information where we can have a substantial understanding of the world. Another viewpoint is that people consider the media to play an influential role in shaping our beliefs and perspectives. This is a process called ‘representations’. The media representations are how the media interprets the world or wh...