soci 1520

Question 1:

Gender Socialization

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1. What do the researchers say about the nature versus nurture argument about gender, specifically who wins?
2. At what age did they say children are able to identify that they are a boy or a girl?
3. Discuss ways in which you were discouraged from doing an activity that was seen as inappropriate for your gender.
4. What happened in the experiment with the baby they dressed up as a boy, then as a girl? Did the baby behave differently depending on its clothes? How did people react to each baby differently?
5. What experiment could you think of doing to research gender in our society?
   

Question 2:

Supreme Court Ruling Makes Same-Sex Marriage a Right Nationwide

      http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/us/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage.html?_r=0

1. How is this change impacting at the indivudal level, society level, global level? Why?