Gender and The Body ANTH100C Gender and the body are both socially constructed ideas that inform society how they should act and how they should look. Since they are both socially constructed they will mean different things depending on the culture and society that you belong to. While different genders face different body related issues society pressures each gender in its own way. Cultural standards of gender and the body can be hard to meet. While they effect everyone differently they lead to my personal battle with anorexia.
Further to this, it is also shown how an individual’s culture can affect the views of another’s, and how these can combine to create an understanding between their different belief systems. Further to these aspects, it can still be realised that culture does have a dominant contributing factor to one’s life and how they perceive things around them, and also how they respond to certain situations. The true definition of culture remains highly generalised and ambiguous as it can only be accurately defined by the individual, due to each person having different interpretations of what it means for them personally. Culture exists in the actions and beliefs of various individuals and is the product of human thought, but despite this, its true role in life can vary significantly. Disher explores this idea of mixed culture in numerous ways throughout his text, which can be seen even in the simple Japanese tradition Sadako implements in making ‘soy sauce’.
Human society is commonly classed as a “large social grouping that shares the same geographical territory, subject to the same political authority or dominant cultural expectations”. But human society has endured criticism for centuries. Although Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” come from completely different contexts and use entirely diverse techniques, their comments on human society are remarkably similar. It appears that both works challenge human societies’ ‘right’ to determine who fits in, as it seems that they control that aspect of society. In both works, the artificially created beings struggle to find meaning and their place in the world.
Marriage, divorce, cohabiting, birth of a child, death of a friend or relative. Self-concept Your family, your friends, your teachers, your employers and your girlfriend or boyfriend all see a different side of you. Sometimes people form what you think is the wrong impression of you. How do you know who you are? Our impression of ourselves may be influenced by other people's opinions of us, but other factors, which are determined by the society around us, contribute towards our impression of who we are.
Together as a society, a single persons destiny weaved together with others symbolizes a combined destiny. One can try to detach its self from civilization, but never can be entirely disconnected from it because everyone is affected by the issues of society. There are many other issues that relates to Kings case against racial segregation. Not only do people judge skin color, but other things like religion, sexual orientation, and culture. Other social issues like these affect even more people because any kind of segregation can make individuals feel like a less important person because they have been personally attacked.
1st part Horney: Psychoanalytic Social Theory 1. What is the basic assumption of Karen Horney’s Psychoanalytic Social Theory? * Social and cultural conditions, especially childhood experiences, are largely responsible for shaping personality. * People who do not have their needs for love and affection satisfied during childhood develop basic hostility toward their parents and, as a consequence, suffer from basic anxiety. 2.
According to Freudian’s theory he displays signs of a core issue referred to as Fear of Intimacy. This issue leads a person to become detached because they have “overpowering feelings that emotional closeness will seriously hurt or destroy them” (Freudian). For example, he does not have any relationships outside of his family, and even when he is at home he remains guarded. Home is where people get comfortable and let their real selves shine. However, Gregor continues “locking the doors at night, even at home” (Kafka 9).
Throughout time there has always been a certain amount of pressure on people, this pressure often comes from society and is caused by a desire to fit in. There are stereotypes and classes that have long been formed in society that place a constant pressure on people to change themselves in a way that causes them to match these stereotypes. In society there also seems to be a constant want to be something different, people are very rarely happy with the stereotype that they have been given and strive for a ‘better’ one. This in turn can cause a person to drastically change their values and morals to fit in. Morals and values however can also be affected greatly by circumstance.
The Power of Social Norms Social norms are described as being laws that governs a society’s behavior. They are enforced either formally or informally and those that do not follow these norms are labeled by society as deviant and that can lead to them being considered as “outcasts” or people who don’t fit into the norm of the society that they live in. “Normal” is different from place to place and depends on the culture where the social interaction is taking place as well. Norms in every culture create conformity that allows for people to become socialized to the culture in which they live in but can also cause a split within society. Theorists such as Talcott Parsons and Karl Marx have both came up with theories for why they believed norms are needed in society.
As he spends time with her family, they make racial comments that alarm him, but he does not show it because he is putting up a different persona to get them to like him. He tries his best to keep his shadow a secret and not reveal his true feelings towards them. In the middle of the night, he escapes the bedroom because he feels constraint and is forced to act like someone else other than himself in that house. While he is outside, he witnesses Walter, one of the workers, acting strange as if he was someone else. However, this was not the only scenario he saw one of the workers acting strangely.