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Reading in modern society


message 2: by [deleted user] (new)

The media and the book play a huge role in the socialization of the individual. As the role of reading in the education process remains extremely important,
An influential agent of gender socialization is children's literature. From books a child
learns about behaviour that is considered appropriate by society
gender.
Most research on gender issues in children's literature focuses on the analysis of the content of the texts and its impact on behaviour is silenced.
The specifics of boys' and girls' reading preferences have been neglected for years
were turned. In the meantime, gender mainstreaming has become one of the most important factors in the last decade
important characteristics in all sociological studies, including children's reading.


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A child's entry into the book universe
The first thing that happens is that
of literature specially designed for children.
It is children's literature that feeds the mind and imagination of the child, opening up new worlds for him/her,
images and patterns of behavior, being powerful
the means of spiritual development of the individual.


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During childhood, fiction plays a crucial role in the process of gender socialization. Through gender images of favorite literary characters, children
come to an appropriate understanding of the sa-
so reading or listening to a lithium
of town hall art is involved in the creation of
gender identity. "Through the book, there is a
Growing a child into a gender culture
of the society where he lives and develops


message 5: by [deleted user] (new)

Gender is a modeled society
and supported by social institutions
a system of values, norms and characteristics of male and female behaviour, lifestyles and ways of thinking, roles and relationships of women, and
of men they've acquired as individuals in
The socialization process is primarily determined by the social, political, economic and cultural contexts of existence and captures the image of women and men in
depending on their sex.


message 6: by [deleted user] (new)

Schoolchildren's reading repertoire
Books you like:
gender
boys/girls:
Fantastic 57 / 55
Adventures 46 / 53
"Merry" books, humor 41/47.
Fantasy 38 / 38
Horrors 36 / 39
About sports 35 / 37
Travel 36 / 32


message 7: by [deleted user] (new)

The most popular books were
horror movies, adventures, fantasies, "weight...
"lazy" books. They are also preferred by boys to read.
chicks. Girls are a little bigger than boys,
like "fun books," adventure and horror...
sticks. Girls generally read more than
boys, so it's no wonder they're
marked a lot more books of different genres.
Compared to boys, girls in the larger
are oriented towards reading novels.


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The girls are almost three times as many as
boys, interested in books about peers and
friendship (32% vs. 9%). Girls are much more likely to be attracted to human relationships in their early teens.
More than a quarter of them mentioned psychology books as interesting for them. At this age, they also read books about love
(38% of respondents), while boys they
are of little interest (6%).


message 9: by [deleted user] (new)

Boys have their hobbies. They are in
are more oriented towards the exact sciences,
specific information. Turns out they're from...
give more preference to history books
(27% of boys versus 15% of girls). Boys-
ki's a little bigger than the girls, reading en-
cyclopedias. They also prefer books about
technology, space, computers (while de...
the glasses of a book on this subject are barely readable,
with a small exception). And if books about
38% of girls and 6% of boys prefer love.
the war books are 39% boys and 39% boys
9% of the girls. It is likely that this orientation is a learning experience.
isn't just an age-specific thing...
by the boys. Many of them played as children
"in the war" with peers, and in the last...
over the decades, these games have become a priority.
The first time you've been in a hospital, you're in the middle of something.
Significant contribution to the orientation of boys
this genre has been brought to the forefront by television, movies, and the whole...
crowbar mass propaganda on a military theme.
Comics prefer more boys -
ki. This genre was noted by 28% of boys and
18% of the girls.
Today, teenage boys read a series


message 10: by [deleted user] (new)

The repertoire of modern teenage girls has a lot of books with different "magic" and adventure themes, but in
unlike the boys' preferences, these books
are even less in touch with the real problems of the modern world.
Both girls and boys read books about vampires. These are different "vampire" sagas, different series of fantasy.
Reading is becoming more and more random,
his repertoire is fragmented and fragmented.
There is a lot of reading in the circle of children and teenagers
of different literature, but most of their repertoire today is new books.
randomly sampled (most often from
of the store).


message 11: by [deleted user] (new)

the teenage magazine reading repertoire doesn't look like the best
in this way. This is especially true for reading
girls. Thus, 96% of girls prefer to read "glossy" magazines about stars and celebrities, that is, almost all girls are fond of the so-called "glossy" and "glamous-
rum." And although the peculiarity of the schoolchildren of this
of age is the search for the ideal idol, the one...
the dominance of celebrity stories in magazine reading is alarming.
At this age, teenagers like to read a variety of "fun", humorous
A publication or edition for teenagers and young people where humour is presented in one way or another.


message 12: by [deleted user] (new)

So, by building your understanding
fiction, the child acquires the initial qualities of masculinity and
femininity, he's developing a--
emotional attitude towards their
the floor, a sense of pride in belonging to
and gender-specific preferences and
interests.
From the books, the child learns about behavior that society regards as appropriate to one or another gender. Most research on gender issues in children's literature focuses on the analysis of the content of the texts, and on
his influence on his behavior is silenced.
Thus, one of the sources of gender identity formation is
children's literature and school textbooks. Reading children's literature, schoolchildren learn
it's better that it's repeated over and over again


message 13: by [deleted user] (new)

Such a policy should be developed in
The field of bibliographies for children's reading and books, which would fully provide gender education for boys and girls,
from an early age, as the most important
an element of humanitarian education and a guiding principle of all educational work. Gender-responsive children's literature has a crucial role to play in overcoming all kinds of discrimination in the education system and in the formation of
personality, because she would have helped the child
to adapt in modern society, would contribute to the formation of its gender
of identity, without imposing social roles and artificial relationships in society on him.
Thank you for reading


message 14: by Veronica (new)

Veronica (veronicashelf) | 6 comments Very interesting! Thank you!


message 15: by [deleted user] (new)

Gender education is a socially controlled process of development of girls and boys
in the course of their gender socialization, the education of the fundamentals of a gender culture of relationships,
mastery of appropriate behavioral skills. Links to the most important activity for this age: play. Special attention is paid to the role of a man-made toy in the development of children's play and the formation of gender consciousness
boys and girls.


message 16: by [deleted user] (new)

Gender education is socially
Controlled development of girls
and boys in the course of their gender socialization - education in the basics of gender culture
The development of relationships and the mastery of appropriate behavioral skills.
Social changes taking place
in modern society, have led to the destruction of traditional male stereotypes
and female behavior. The democratization of gender relations has led to a mixture of sex roles, feminization of men and manhood
women. Doesn't count out anymore
smoking and cursing of the fair sex, many of them
have come to occupy a leading position among
men, the boundaries between "women's"
and "male" professions. Some husbands-
the ranks, in turn, are losing their way--
(b) The right role in marriage is to be played by the right person,
from "breadwinners" are gradually turning
in the "consumers", and all child-rearing responsibilities are shifted to women's shoulders.
Against the background of these changes, the internal psychological positions of children and their
Consciousness: girls become aggressive
and rude, and the boys are taking a woman's
the type of behavior.


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