According to Talcott Parsons, gender forms a complementary set of roles that link men and women into family units. Socialization teaches girls which type of roles?

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Talcott Parsons argued that gender roles in a family are complementary, with men typically taking on the instrumental roles (task-oriented) and women the expressive roles (emotion and relationship-oriented). Thus, socialization teaches girls expressive roles.

According to Talcott Parsons, Gender Forms a Complementary Set of Roles