Outline the Biosocial Explanation of Gender Development.

OUTLINE THE BIOSOCIAL EXPLANATION OF GENDER DEVELOPMENT
The biosocial approach sees the interaction between biological and social factors as important, rather than biology’s direct influence. It argues that we need to consider how both the biological and environment factors work together to produce gender roles.
According to this approach, once a child’s sex has been labelled, their biological sex acts like a ‘signpost’ by which the baby’s needs and behaviours are interpreted. So, people may treat the baby differently on the basis of their biological sex depending on their own particular views about gender differences. For example, if a child is a boy, his parents may buy him toys that conventional boys would play with, such as toy cars- the parents may do this because they may feel that boys should be masculine and should only act in a boyish way. This would then affect the child’s gender development as the child may grow up with the idea that he has to be masculine, so he may end up only playing with other boys and he may behave in a way that other boys behave like.
