In other parts of the world sexism is more prominent because males have dominant roles over women and therefore look down upon them. Not only is there sexism, but there is ambivalent sexism which is defined as sexism directed against women based on both positive and negative attitudes (hostility and benevolence) rather than uniform dislike. To better understand ambivalent sexism I took a test that would rate my hostile and ambivalent sexism. The Ambivalent sexism inventory measure how sexist you are towards men and women. My scores from this test were quite surprising to me.
Some of the causes included, the extreme power to a single leader, and the desire for power, while some responses would be hatred towards the leader and hard work to stay alive, all depending on one’s perspective due to their status in a society. My first grouping would be documents 1, 4, and 6 because they all pertain to the leaders of the societies that caused the inequality. Document 1 is a wall relief from the palace of Sannacherib at Nineveh in 704-681 B.C.E. This wall relief shows the ruler or leader sitting at the top of a hill watching his slaves being brutally treated as they do hard work. His amount of power caused him to control his slaves to do hard work without remorse or sympathy towards them which caused the social inequality.
122 As a process, gender creates the social differences that define “woman” and “man.” In social interaction throughout their lives, individuals learn what is expected, see what is expected, act and react in expected ways, and thus simultaneously construct and maintain the gender order pg. 123 As part of a stratification system, gender ranks men above women of the same race and class pg. 123 The dominant categories are the hegemonic ideals, taken so for granted as the way things should be that white is not ordinarily thought of as race, middle class or men as a gender. The characteristics of these categories define the Other as that which lacks the valuable qualities the dominants exhibit. Pg.
Ignorance What causes cross-cultural conflicts? In the articles “Sex and Gender” by William Thompson and Joseph Hickey, “Sex, Lies, and Conversation” by Deborah Tannen, and “Identity in Transformation” by Yasmin Ahmed, each will explore the many obstacles people face in their lives and demonstrate how clashes among different cultures are caused by assumptions manifested from expectations. In “Sex and Gender,” William Thompson and Joseph Hickey explain the differences between sex and gender. Most altercations come from the differences in terms of sex and gender that aren’t clear to others, ”Sex is based on biological and physical differences between females and males; gender refers to a cultural understanding of what constitutes masculinity and femininity in a society” (285). Sex is established by genetics whereas gender is shaped by ones particular society at particular times.
Do our concepts of gender and sex contribute to our understanding of sexual orientation? Explain. Our gender is our social and legal status as men or women. And sexual orientation is the term used to describe whether a person feels sexual
Social stratification is the universal tendency of societies to organize people in a hierarchy of levels or “strata” on a variety of characteristics such as power, wealth, social status, education level, prestige of one’s occupation, social standing (Petev, 2013). Social class is what separates the two groups of boys in the picture I have chosen to illustrate how social class shapes society. The picture shows a little bit of how different people of different social classes are from each other. People of different social classes separate themselves from each other because they are on different levels in terms of educational attainment, occupational prestige, and wealth. There is a clear relationship between social class and educational attainment.
Gender or sex refers to the socially constructed categories of feminine and masculine which are the cultural identies and values that prescribe how men and women should behave. The social power relations based on those categories are distinct from the categories of biological sex (male or female) (Germov, 2009, p. 131). Gender refers to the social aspects of differences and hierarchies between male and female. (Macionis, 2008, p. 367). Gender is understood as a system of relations, a social product constantly negotiated and redefined that both constrains and provides opportunity for action.
Masculinity is a privilege that can structure society. Masculinity being the dominant gender has many advantages which are shown within Society in many different ways. Masculinised privilege can structure society because most institutions are male dominant and including other organisations. In Society we see that Masculinity is a privilege in terms of Identity within male and female relationships, Workplace, Homes and Schools. Masculinised privilege within society can be a positive impact and a negative.
Many african american males are socialized to be more macho. Many argue that that since black men were not allowed to be real men so gender roles have now become blurred betwern black males and females. Black women are now socialized to support themselves, and are taking on more of a prominent role in the workplace and the home. This socialization of gender roles has created strife in the black male/female relationship as well. Young black males are socialized to be powerful and rational beings.
Sex makes up the biological differences; of male or female. Gender is the socially learned behaviors that are attached to the sexes (Henslin, p. 322), which create Gender Roles. Gender roles constitute the attitudes and behaviors that are expected of males and females in a given culture of society. It is these gender roles that give the impact of gender inequality amongst the male and the female sex. Gender roles are not given at birth, as ones biological sex, they are to be learned and taught amongst those surrounding one at an early age, and the society and culture one lives in.