Individuals learn the ways and habits of their people through intensive interaction between the developing child and other people. The social scripts and their meanings are passed along from one generation to the next. Socialization takesplace in the family, school, neighborhood, workplace, and entertainment. Culture Culture consists of all the shared products of human society, including material objects, and nonmaterial objects such as ideas, language, customs, beliefs, and behavioral patterns. The psychology of gender Gender socialization affects and shapes personality, and gender stratification.
Gendered expectations have psychological consequences.
At the same time, a person's own motivation, will, and resistance can alter the nature of gender relationships. Define and Shape Gender Family Gender relationships are defined and shaped within the family through family roles, child care practices, patterns of physical and emotional maintenance, power relationships, and economic patterns. The reproduction of gender roles occurs in the school, classroom, playground, and friendship groups. Education also occurs outside of the classroom, through television watching or participation in sports, for example. The economic system structures work and employment, the distribution of wealth and income, and work hierarchies.