Effects of Gender and Race on Sex-Role Preferences of Fifth-Grade Children

Freeman, Harvey R.; Schockett, Melanie R.; Freeman, Evelyn B.

doi:10.1080/00224545.1975.9923240

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“…8 That is, young female subjects may have been more anxious than males to please the female tester (who would have been identified with the pro-French orientation of the school). However, one would question why small boys, who have been shown to identify with the female sex role, would also not wish to please the tester (Lynn, 1969;Freeman et al, 1975;Vener and Snyder, 1969).…”

Section: Sex Differences In the Weiland Studymentioning

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Sex differences in the development of children’s ethnic and language attitudes

Schneiderman¹

1982

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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One of the surprising results of a study of the ethnic and language attitudes of bilingual children conducted by the author (Schneiderman, 1975;1976) was that very young boys were shown to be less ethnocentric (i.e., less in-group oriented) than girls of the same age. The responses of the older children in the sample did not vary according to sex; both males and females exhibited in-group preferences.The outcome of the study, which took place among the Franco-Ontarian population of Weiland, Ontario, a town on the Niagara Peninsula, 1 suggests that there are sex differences in the development of children's ethnic and language attitudes. The present paper grew out of an attempt to interpret this finding. This, in turn, has led to a number of speculations on the sex variable in studies of ethnic and language attitudes. Among the topics discussed are sex differences in the attitudes of both children and adults, the relationship between adults' attitudes and those of children, and the relationship of sexrole identification to attitude formation in children. Although the paper ultimately raises more questions than it answers, it suggests a direction for research to further our understanding of how attitude development in children relates to attitude differences between men and women. The Weiland studyThe study which prompted the present article was originally designed to trace the development of ethnic and language attitudes in bilingual children from 3 to 12 years of age. 2 The subjects were all attending French-language nursery or elementary schools in Weiland.After acting as a participant-observer in the schools and in the community, I became interested in the children's language usage. Although French-Canadian children in Weiland are provided with French-language education

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“…7. For a discussion of sex-role identification in children see Lynn (1969), Freeman et aL (1975), and Vener and Snyder (1969). 8.…”

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Sex differences in the development of children’s ethnic and language attitudes

Schneiderman¹

1982

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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“…As age increases, up to a third of young girls may continue to adopt some opposite-sex-typed behaviors but fewer and fewer boys do so (Lynn, 1959). In the process of examining and personalizing sex-role behaviors, girls tend to value sex-typed activities more extremely than do boys; that is, they place significantly more value on same-sex-typed activities and significantly less value on opposite-sex-typed activities (Freeman, Schockett, & Freeman, 1975). Boys, while less extreme in their evaluations, continue to label more activities as exclusively masculine than do girls (Dwyer, 1974).…”

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Relating to Children: Gays as Role Models

Riddle

1978

Journal of Social Issues

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Within the framework that same‐sex sexual preference can be a positive outcome, the developmental aspects of sexual identity are traced. It seems that gender identity is fixed in early childhood, rigid sex‐role identity has questionable effects while more flexibility in sex‐role behaviors has definite advantages, and sexual preference choices continue to evolve throughout one's lifetime. A review of the literature on role modeling leads to the conclusions that children internalize particular traits from a variety of models, and that gays are more likely to serve as nontraditional sex‐role models than as determiners of same‐sex sexual preference.

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Effects of Gender and Race on Sex-Role Preferences of Fifth-Grade Children

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Sex differences in the development of children’s ethnic and language attitudes

Sex differences in the development of children’s ethnic and language attitudes

Relating to Children: Gays as Role Models

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