{"id":831,"date":"2011-10-11T08:13:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T13:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=831"},"modified":"2011-12-09T20:05:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T01:05:29","slug":"toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2011\/10\/11\/toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by koi. on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/29645686@N07\/6202000255\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6180\/6202000255_dd29836d49_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"domo match\" width=\"240\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Kristine Oplado via flickr.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by koi. on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/29645686@N07\/6202000255\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>When I took my first sociology course my freshman year of undergrad, I had no idea I would enjoy it more than the biology courses I was taking for my major.\u00a0 But, I loved it.\u00a0 In fact, I can still remember the simple classroom activity that caused me to rethink my major.<\/p>\n<p>Our professor asked us to visit a toy store (or a store with a fairly sizeable toy section) and write a short reflection paper about the differences we saw between toys marketed for boys and toys marketed for girls.\u00a0 She asked us to pay attention to the packaging (What types of colors are used? Who is depicted playing with the toys?) and the toys themselves.\u00a0 Afterward, students discussed their findings in class, and it was clear that many of the students really enjoyed the activity. \u00a0We then discussed gender and gender socialization, and even though I don&#8217;t study gender, the way sociologists examine what most people take for granted had me hooked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I took my first sociology course my freshman year of undergrad, I had no idea I would enjoy it more than the biology courses I was taking for my major.\u00a0 But, I loved it.\u00a0 In fact, I can still remember the simple classroom activity that caused me to rethink my major. Our professor asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2051],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-socialization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}