Diana wants to let others know that she adores life. She is happy, smiles are Contagious, and she can spread them. She cannot live a day without sharing her high spirits. She is not simple, she is not selfish, or rude, and she is not disrespectful or bad mannered, though if something irritates her, she will take action. She can be shy, but at the same time, she can be a social butterfly.
They don’t like to be held back.”(5-7) this is the way the speaker describes her hips. Lucille Clifton is straight forward and wants you to feel the freedom and advantages of having healthy hips by using imagery. Lucille Clifton brings us through her poem with a bow of confidence; “Homage” means a form of paying respect to someone or something. “They go where they want to go, and they do what they want to do.” (9-10) Demonstrating a strong, brassy, confident women, a women who is comfortable in her skin, who sends a “feel good” message through a powerful delivery of her self-worth. “They need space to move around in; they don’t fit into little petty places” (2-4) you can gather from these lines that her hips are large, that she is not a size 2 and that she needs space.
However, not everyone agrees with the heavy stereotypes laid down by the social order such as male dominance and proper courting. Marie de France is one of these people. She depicts her views of gender expectations through literature. Within the poem Guigemar, Guigemar and his lady fulfill and contradict what would be considered as gender norms within society: female inferiority, traditional courtship, and male dominance. Marie de France does this to criticize and combat the societal expectations and inherent inequalities in Norman England.
Sociologists say that childhood socially constructed (which means that it is created and defined by society). They say that the position children have in society is not permanently fixed, it changes over time. This is obvious by looking at how childhood is seen in other cultures and the past. It is accepted in our society now that childhood should be a special time of life, children are seen as being different from adults so should be treated differently because they are physically and psychologically immature and are not able to be dependent. So they are seen to need a lengthy period of time where they are nurtured and socialised before they are seen as responsible adults in society.
Gender socialization through toys, teaches and reinforces stereotypical gender roles. By definition, “gender” refers to the sociocultural dimension of being male or female. Authors Bryjak and Soroka say, “Human beings are not born with any pre-existing knowledge of, or orientation to, their world. What we come to feel about life and about ourselves, we learn through socialization, the social mechanisms through which gender developments occur” (214). Children develop a sense of their gender as they grow older.
Just the Way We Are Everyone thought that there are similar differences between males and females. Both genders are different through their social, emotional and intellectual qualities. Gender roles influence women and men in virtually every area of life including family and occupation, but are women and men subject to different roles or behavior expectations? Gender role by definition is,” the public image of being male or female that a person presents to others.” (Dictionary.com). In early American culture it was common for a women’s job to be an obedient housewife in clear contrast to the male’s duty to be a job holder.
Nick 8/03/2008 Sociology Social Differentiation: Gender Social Differentiation is a normal occurrence for every man, woman, and child on the earth. It is almost impossible to socially differentiate someone without gender being a factor. Gender defines a huge part of the human perception and someone’s possible role in society. Over the years it’s progressively becoming more acceptable for women and men to “interchange roles”; but social differentiation is not necessarily all sexist or demeaning there is some undisputable facts. Such as women can not perform manual work as well as men, on the other hand, a man’s entire chemistry is different allowing him to be less emotional than a woman.
Male and female communication styles are different and the same in many ways. Through watching the video and in class lecture, I have learned that the way that the different genders communication styles are not always the same. Some of the underlying factors that contribute to people having different conversational styles are influenced by their parents, age, class, and gender. Usually we are unaware that these and other aspects of our backgrounds influence our ways of talking. Since we don’t realize that others’ styles are different, we miscommunicate with each other causing problems and conflicts in conversation.
It sometimes became kind of uncomfortable to talk about the topic of puberty with my mom and aunt since it was two different sexes, I never had a male role model so talking to them became very easy not that uncomfortable anymore as I got older. I believe talking with them and listening to the many advices they have given me through out the years got us closer as a family. According to the health textbook masculinity as well as femininity refer to the ideal cluster of traits that society attributes to each gender. Society is changing in many ways and one can see that in the models of masculinity and femininity. It is not uncommon in our modern day society to see a woman having a CEO position, or see a woman being a police officer, nor it is uncommon to see male librarians organizing books or stay at home dads taking care of the kids.
The way a person acts and communicates will depend on who is around and how they are acting, meaning different people bring out different attitudes and responses. I want to research and understand these different reactions based on one’s gender and the people that are around. Thesis Statement Sentence: The changes mean that same sex interaction differs for both men and women; it also changes when they interact with each other. Introduction Paragraph: Majority of classrooms tend to set men up for success rather than women according to a study done by Deborah Tannen. This may come as a shock since it is easy to assume girls pay attention more, and therefore participate more in school.