Gender socialization and media
Society’s Expectations of Women, Their Experiences in the World and gender socialization
. People really need to look deeper into themselves and the world to discover the true meaning life and society. Society has many different layers and your perception of the world changes as find the true meaning as you peel away the layers like as onion .
A sociologist thinks of society as a large complex of human relationships or as a system of interaction. Two men talking on a street corner is not considered a society, but it is considered social. Society consists of a number of social events like this. Society is a number of complex social events. People know that it is wrong to judge a book by it’s cover, but people always do it any way why is that? There is a saying which I believe that “”says “ “true beauty is only skin deep if that is true then why is that an individual’s appearance is the first thing that people in a society will judge without getting to know the person even though people know that it is morally wrong to judge a person appearance but they do It anyway. why This is because from the time we are in our mothers womb there is a set of many guidelines, rules expectations, images on how a person is supposed to look like, act, interact with other people that evey individual in society is trained to follow and obey. These guidelines, rules expectations are based on an individual’s gender, race, social class sexuality they are put In place in our society so people can be successful.
As soon as they have learn to walk children are socializatled differently based on their gender, boys learn to play with action figtures like gi joe army toys and play with lego. Society teaches boys to be strong, join the miltary, be good at math, build buildings be engineers, providers for women in society. On the other hand , young girls are trainned by society and their parents to play with dolls, make up, easy bake ovens and later on in school girls learn that parents only want their sons to do better in math so as a result, girls attention in lot.
From the moment a person is born and often earlier, that person is categorized by their gender and will spend the rest of their life facing the questions of identity and appropriate behavior respective to their gender. Diana Kendall defines gender as “the culturally and socially constructed differences between females and males found in the meanings, beliefs, and practices associated with “femininity” and “masculinity” (Kendall 303), and socialization as “the lifelong process of social interaction through which individuals acquire a self-identity and the physical, mental, and social skills needed for survival in society” (Kendall 75).... [tags: Gender, Male, Female, Gender role]
children. Women who do work and have children often have dilemmas with what to do with their children when they are at work all day. Women can hire baby sitters, nannies, or they can pay for day care to care of the children for the work day. Unfortunately some women cannot afford to pay for daycare for their children. As a result many mothers must make a decision on whether or not they should stay home with their children or to work. It is s very hard decision to make because on one hand, a mother wants to be with her children. On the other hand, Women need to work for money to pay bills, to pay for food, daycare, clothes and other essentials. Aside from the obvious biological factor of a woman’s birth to children men are perfectly capable of raising and nurturing their children.
This study shows that In fact, in recent years more and more men are staying home to care for their children either because more men are unemployed or they have responsibility for the kids, while the wife or Mothers are working all day. In addition men are allowed to have a two week paternity leave to spend time with their new baby and they still can go back to work without any consequences. While in contrast to men young women who take a maternity leave for twelve weeks might not have a job when they come back from maternity leave even though by law an employer is not allowed to fire a woman just for having a baby. Women who have a baby and return to work have a stigma attached to them for having a baby because employers and coworker think that women cannot perform their job the way that they did before having the baby and sometimes women are fired from their job for taking extra time on materiality leave. Society has so many different double standards for men and women. For example if a father stays home to take care of his children while the mother is out working , society will look down on men who stay home with the children because he is too nurturing and he is not considered manly enough. Also if society expects women not to get an education not a degree, not work and stay home taking care of the children and the house how Are they going to pay bills . Society needs to understand that in order for women to raise their children and be good mothers all women need to have equal.opportunities
Girls are sociolicazed to wear skirts and pretty little tops, didn’t allow for play as much as the clothing found in the boys sections like pants and shoes that looked like they were made for playing around. The idea trying to be reached through these clothing choices are that boys are meant to be roughing it up, getting dirty, and
Advertisements are another thing encouraging gender roles. Advertisements, TV, magazines, and other things like this are often the biggest source of fuel to the fire that is gender stereotypes. Typically in these types of media you will see a blonde, thin and smiling girl and an extremely muscular, powerful and handsome man. Companies use gender to sell their products by using sex-appeal quite often. Sex sells, and unfortunately in this day and age, so does sexism. A good place to find a commercial that shows heavy gender stereotypes would be during the Super Bowl. You would think that because advertisement during the Super Bowl goes for so much money, those companies would want to put out their best, but instead what happens is a lot of reinforcing of gender stereotypes. A specific example would be the hyper-sexualized Carl’s Jr. commercial featuring Kate Upt
Advertisements are another thing encouraging gender roles. Advertisements, TV, magazines, and other things like this are often the biggest source of fuel to the fire that is gender stereotypes. Typically in these types of media you will see a blonde, thin and smiling girl and an extremely muscular, powerful and handsome man. Companies use gender to sell their products by using sex-appeal quite often. Sex sells, and unfortunately in this day and age, so does sexism. A good place to find a commercial that shows heavy gender stereotypes would be during the Super Bowl. You would think that because advertisement during the Super Bowl goes for so much money, those companies would want to put out their best, but instead what happens is a lot of reinforcing of gender stereotypes. A specific example would be the hyper-sexualized Carl’s Jr. commercial featuring Kate Upt
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