Fagot

• A: to study the role that parents may play in gender-role development, the researcher wanted to examine the parental reaction when the behavior of the child was not ''gender appropriate''
• P: There were 24 families, 12 with a boy and 12 with a girl, and each family had only one child between 20-24 months. Both parents lived at home and both parents were young, some of them still being students...
• P....: Fagot, carried out a series of overt naturalistic observations of parent/child interactions, toddlers and their parents were observed in their homes. Observers observed by a checklist of 46 child behaviors and 19 reactions by parents for each family in a five-week period. After the observations were finished, each parents was asked to rate the 46 behaviors as more appropriate for girls, for boys or neutral by filling out questionnaire on the socialization of sex roles
• R: Parents gave boys more positive responses when they played with blocks than they did girls and girls were responded positively than boys for playing with dolls. Also, parents reacted more favorably to the child when the child was engaged in same-sex preferred behavior
• C: the way that parents interact with a child may play a role in enculturation, teaching the child what is appropriate behavior or not in their culture, as well as the difference between the observed parents behavior and the answer on the questionnaire suggest that the parents were not fully aware of the methods they use to socialize their children