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  2. Gender typing - Wikipedia

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    gender identity: the child recognizes that they are either a boy or a girl and possesses the ability to label others. gender stability: the identity in which they recognizes themselves as does not change; gender consistency: the acceptance that gender does not change regardless of changes in gender-typed appearance, activities, and traits.

  3. Gender schema theory - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, Bem suggests teaching alternative schemata to children so that they are less likely to build and maintain a gender schema. [5] Some examples include an individual differences schema, where children learn to process information on a person-by-person basis rather than make wide assumptions about groups based on information from ...

  4. Gender roles in childhood - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] An understanding of these roles is evident in children as young as age four. [4] Children between 3 and 6 months can form distinctions between male and female faces. [5] By ten months, infants can associate certain objects with females and males, like a hammer with males or scarf with females. [5]

  5. Sociology of gender - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes 'Geschlechtsidentität' is used as gender (although it literally means gender identity) and 'Geschlecht' as sex (translation of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble). More common is the use of modifiers: biologisches Geschlecht for sex, Geschlechtsidentität for gender identity and Geschlechterrolle for gender role etc.

  6. Normative social influence - Wikipedia

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    As the group becomes more important to a person, physically closer to him/her, and larger in number, Social Impact Theory predicts that conformity to group norms will increase. However, the size of the group only affects conformity to an extent—as a group expands past 3–5 members, the effect levels off. [12]

  7. Childhood gender nonconformity - Wikipedia

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    In these studies, a majority of those who identify as gay or lesbian self-report being gender nonconforming as children. [2] [3] [4] The therapeutic community is divided over the proper response to childhood gender nonconformity. Gender nonconforming children face gender policing from both adults and peers, including bullying and violence based ...

  8. Hegemonic masculinity - Wikipedia

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    Heteronormativity is the standard for children; despite their obvious sexual innocence, heterosexuality is ingrained in children in their acting of gender from an early age. [ 30 ] Another factor that contributes to gendered behaviour and roles is the greater visibility, importance, and presence of males than females in literature, and in the ...

  9. Gender dysphoria - Wikipedia

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    Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences due to a mismatch between their gender identity—their personal sense of their own gender—and their sex assigned at birth. [5] [6] The term replaced the previous diagnostic label of gender identity disorder (GID) in 2013 with the release of the diagnostic manual DSM-5.