As soon as Grant started to play patty-cake with his classmate Emma, he was teased and ridiculed by the boys in the class. Grant
quickly learned that patty-cake is a form of play that is reserved for girls and not boys. Grant's process of learning the roles of "maleness" and "femaleness" is ____.
Socialization: The term "socialization" is referred to as an individual's act of adapting specific behavior according to the norms of a particular society or culture. The term involves 'the process of being social'.
Gender socialization: The term "gender socialization" is defined as a phenomenon through which a person is being taught the criteria to behave socially concerning a specific gender and it is being assigned or implemented at the time of birth based on an individual's sex phenotype.
In the question above, Grant's process of learning the roles of maleness and femaleness is gender socialization.
