How do gender and sex contribute to the concepts and constructions of masculinity and femininity? Sex and gender have everything to do with masculinity and femininity. Men are considered to be masculine by being strong and tough and women are considered to be feminine by having supposed less strength and ladylike behaviors. As I have stated above, each is categorized and history has presented itself as these being the reasons why. * * Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity?
Environment is a significant factor when determining how a person behaves. It is more commonly the environment that shapes a person’s behavior versus genetics. Whether the experiences are good or bad, it will shape a person in how they behave and think. Genes have only been proven to be a factor in medical disorders like hyperactivity. Homosexuality is a result of the person’s environment and how they are brought up as a child.
• Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity? Definitely. My concept personally is that men should be masculine and women should befeminine. Know role role so to speak. I don’t happen to
He says: “we are as our children recite every morning, one nation under God.” The Vice-President desired the black man to be assimilated in some sort and to respect the white man for his unseen ability to rectify all difficulties. He longed for unity not diversity. His demeanour is both patronizing and condescending in disguise. The use of the pronoun “we” is easily identifiable as pertaining to the white society and “them” to the black society. Whether it is a problem concerning crime, welfare or family structure, Quayle
In order to build background knowledge to audiences, Michael Cramphorn first introduce how the gender different in psychological aspect. Michael highly supported Simon Baron-Cohen’s idea, which is about “Gender Different in brain” (Cramphron 148). He is a psychopathologist of University of Cambridge, and he indicated that different structure of brain between male and female result in primarily different personality and reaction of life. Even though Michael is not professional in this field, his objective and informative tone is persuasive for our readers to understand and believe the gender difference has existed when we at birth. For example, Michael indicated that “Gender difference caused by chromosome.
Lea Cherbaka February 17, 2010 Reaction Paper – The Social Construction of Gender “I am arguing that bodies differ in many ways physiologically, but they are completely transformed by social practices to fit into the salient categories of a society, the most pervasive of which are “female” and “male” and “women” and “men (Lorber 1990, 10).” The first thing that comes to people’s minds when they think of “the social construction of gender” is the characteristic that is normally associated with men and women. For example, men are strong and women are sensitive. In her article, Judith Lorber discusses the inequality between the genders and how society is the factor that has created such a divide between males and females. When reading this article I thought that Lorber provided a lot of examples for her argument, which allowed me to relate to many of them. For example, one of the main points she touched upon was the male dominance in sports.
Any country that conquest another country has to impose it culture by obligating its language, religion, and traditions to fully conquest the other country. To many people from the dependent country, it is hard to learn the language imposed because of the lack of good education and experience. The dominant society may think that because of their anatomy or their race they are not able to do so. In the text “Black Children are Verbally Deprived” by Walt Wolfram, the author explains how the North American society supposes that African American has a different English speech because the segregation and the poor education they have had. Nowadays, Puerto Ricans are having the same problems as the African Americans did before with the North Americans in terms of the use of English.
This includes our organs and genitalia. When we all were young the sex also defined the masculinity and femininity of the person. But in today's society no matter the actual sex or gender of the person. the dominating role is perceived as the masculine role and the weaker or more submissive person is perceived as the feminine role. Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute to the ways we embrace gender and sex in diversity?
In Western culture, gender is a binary classification based on two strictly defined gender categories of male and female. From the time of birth, we become acquainted with gender expectations and standards through many social influences. These influences have a powerful effect as they shape our understanding of gender and how we identify ourselves as being a man or woman. In the film Codes of Gender, Sut Jhally analyzes gender display in advertisements and how masculine and feminine powers are portrayed differently through body and hand configurations. Women are shown as smaller or weaker than men, and suggest a ritualization of subordination through their canting, bashful knee positions.
Hormones: Its Effects on Behavior and Gender Identity PSY 340 Biological Foundations of Psychology July 1, 2012 Gary Mayhew Hormones: Its Effects on Behavior and Gender Identity Hormones are essential in regulating body functions and maintaining homeostasis. They also hold another important role, which is reproduction. Hormones help define our sex, and gender identity. It is because of hormones that gender identity and sexual orientation is mainly affected by nature and not by nurture. This is important statement because it proves that gender identity and sexual orientation is not purely choice, but driven by biological forces.