Toy stores or toy departments usually have some kind of divider that makes it clear where the lines fall gender wise (well, most of the time). But what are the clues that indicate if this isle is supposed to be the boys section, or the girls section? How can these types of toys be differentiated? Do these toys unconsciously send a message of appropriate and non-appropriate adult gender roles? How do these toys potentially influence the ways in which boys and girls understand notions of power and control within social relationships?
-Prof. Eric Vega
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Kids grow a fascination with objects that encourages imagination and symbolizes human function, in a fantasy world they mentally create. Many times they will create persona for these inanimate objects to establish what would be part of their early interpersonal relationships. The question is what do these relationships mean to the child? Do adults perspectives have any correlation in similarity with the child's views in value for the toy?
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