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RE: The Social Birds & the Bees: The socialization of gender, a toy store ethnography
Thank you very much for your kind words. I'll have to give your post a read when I have some time, I'm pretty busy working in my lab and preparing for school in September.
Language certainly is a major factor in how we develop our identities, that's what I was mentioning with the baby talk for girls and tough talk for boys. It's a very obvious correlation, so it blows my mind that people don't understand or accept this idea! Thanks for the study link. :)
I'll have to look into your studies about toys, are you saying they show that socialization is not what brings children to prefer a toy or not?
Those studies were conducted by Elizabeth et al. (2014) & Bown and Disxon (2000). They indicate that this appears to be the case, yes. In an attempt to eliminate the influence of socialization in children's preference for toys, they turned to our closest ancestors to check it all out. The results showed that the males preferred and spent more time with toys like cars and planes, and the females with dolls. It seems that socialization is not the only factor at play when it comes to which toy boys and girls enjoy playing with.
All the best to you!