Nishan Nuriyeva

Key words: sex, gender, gender role, gender socialization

Nishan Chingiz Nuriyeva

PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF GENDER SOCIALIZATION

Summary. Throughout the history, some gender roles had been given to the males and females in all communities and people internalized these roles voluntarily or involuntarily depending on the social structure. While forming the gender roles, the male gender‘s hegemony has been accepted and female gender has been placed as secondary. So except for biological sex, a female‘ gender has appeared that created by the society which offered some types of existence under a patriarchal ideology‘s domination in both public and private area. This article will discuss gender roles, psychological theories and influencing factors related to gender socialization