PROJECT - Gender Identity and Socialization
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| Course: | Applied Sociology 30 |
| Book: | PROJECT - Gender Identity and Socialization |
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| Date: | Thursday, 18 September 2025, 7:32 PM |
Introduction
From an early age, most boys learn that they should play with trucks, love blue, and play hockey. Girls are taught to play with dolls, love pink, and play house.
However, more and more parents and educators are experimenting with raising children in a gender-neutral fashion, not reveal the gender of their babies.
What do you think?
Should children be raised to be gender-neutral?
Read on for more details!
Resources
BABY STORM
Baby Storm Raised Genderless is Bad Experiment, Says Experts
Boy or Girl? It's a Secret and an International Controversy
Baby Storm Now: Dad David Stocker on the Uproar and Storm's Gender Identity
EGALIA
Egalia: Sweden's Gender-Neutral Pre-school
Gender-Neutral Pre-school Accused of Mind Control
VIEWPOINTS
Parents Who Hid Child's Gender for Five Years Now Face Backlash
This is What It's Like to Raise a Gender-Neutral Child
Project
Save your completed project as AS30P1yoursurname
In order to begin this project, start by carefully reading through the web pages listed on the resource page.
You are not limited to using only these pages to complete the assignment described below.
After conducting your research, you are going to present your findings.
In your presentation, you MUST:
- define North American culture, norms, beliefs, values as they pertain to gender issues
- explain the socialization process and why it is important
- provide examples of positive results of raising children in a gender-neutral fashion
- provide examples of negative results of raising children in a gender-neutral fashion
- provide and discuss a specific piece of evidence drawn from a news source posted within the last two months
- present your own conclusion to answer the question, in response to your research and your studies in Unit One. Your conclusion must be presented in an objective tone, supported by research.
- present a course of action to the Alberta premier
- write at least 1000 words
- include a bibliography of all of your sources
- Some options for presentation form are
- Word document
- PPT
- movie
- podcast
- etc
- Do NOT plagiarize. Such an action will result in a zero on this project!
NO matter the format of your presentation, the content, WITHOUT BIBLIOGRAPHY, should be at least 1000 words, which is roughly TWO single-spaced pages of 12-point font.
Your presentation will be assessed using the Applied Sociology 30 Project Rubric.