Where it all begins * Gender Roles are typically encou wed through “gendered socialization” from birth. * Gender socialization: This is when we are encouraged to wear certain things, play with certain things, and show interest biological sex, These things are encouraged by the four major agents of socialization: Family, education, peer group: ertain people based solely on our nd mass media. Gender roles are not typically a women and men, rather they come from what society has constructed them to be. sociated with any actual inherent difference of (Gender Sociology, n.d.),