Gender Roles

I think this article makes a good point. That parents are not the only role models factoring into this situation. Friends and kids that are around the same age as you start realizing what is right and what is wrong. In this case, this young boy was dead set on being a princess, dressing like a princess, wearing pink, and coloring all the time. Without the parents intervening themselves into the boy's development process, they let him be. he turned out to slowly realize that colors play a gender role in society. It's not like he hates princesses and coloring now, he just has a better understanding for the stereotypes that follow with certain colors in society.

All of a sudden I thought of sociology when...

I had a volleyball tournament this past weekend. I realized how us girls do things in the gym, that we wouldn't necessarily do out in public. We walk around in butt-hugging spandex, and change  in the middle of the hallways. That's what gets me the most, that we just throw our shirt off and change, and it's acceptable! I don't quite understand what makes this one thing different from the other. How is it that changing out in the public, for everyone to see, is allowed here? I looks to me that volleyball has adopted it's own set of folkways and norms.