Your essay will focus on how the process of GENDER SOCIALIZATION in our society and detail how FAMILY, SCHOOL and MEDIA play a primary role in socializing young children. Specifically address the negative impact gender socialization has on FEMALES.

In your introductory paragraph, you will need to define Gender Socialization, using the academic articles assigned below.

Keep your focus narrow. The broader the topic, the more difficult to keep your essay focused. You do not have to cover everything on this topic!

This essay will function as a literature review. Literature reviewsuse secondary sources (the assigned articles), and do not report new or original experimental work. Meaning you are to use the research to make an argument, rather than stating your own opinion. You may “analyze” research by using other research (the assigned articles to either support or refute arguments.

Refer to at least three course readings in your essay. A total of 5 scholarly sources are required. All sources MUST be academic/scholarly sources.

All factual information should have a cited reference. Your in-text citations, as well as reference page, must adhere to APA format.

Your in-text citations, as well as reference page, must adhere to APA format.

You do not need an abstract or a titled page.

Structure:

Essays should be approximately 1,000 words (not including your reference page). Each to be given points for content and form; papers should not be substantially under or over the 1000-word requirement.

Essays should be double-spaced, times new roman font or arial

These are the articles you can use in your essay:

Capitalist Industrial Society

Work, Family, and Black Women’s Oppression

Gender Socialization Theory

The Social Construction of Gender

Theoretical Approaches to Gender Development

Gender-Role Socialization

The Media as an Agent of Gender Development