SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Abuna, Direct Marketing, Fredric Wertham

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

Barbie is in her 50"s, but has kept her looks. She shifted the toy industry"s focus to lines of toys. Over the years, barbie has come in for lots of criticism. She"s strong enough to put your daughter in a grave. -some eating disease organization. Barbie makes girls less able to acheive the emotional preparation for being a wife and mother that they received from baby dolls. Barbie may serve to integrate children prematurely into the adolescent subculture and minimize preperation for later adult performances such as those associated with conjugal, parental, and occupational status or position. Barbie was meant to be a model, a doll mainly for playing with fashion. Nowadays, criticism is opposite of what it used to be. Criticism is that it supports traditional gender roles. There are lots of reasons people worry about toys: Piaget showed that children pass through stages of cognitive development.