These are the binaries and social constructions the society views as normal. There is a clear definition of what a woman should look and act like such as, be modest, subordinate, have a “clitoris”, etc. Likewise, there is a clear definition of how a man should look and act, be strong, confident, have a “penis”, etc. each person has to fit into these norms of a male or a female, or else they will be considered as “queer” and different from the “normal” people. A male would have to have sex with a female and a female would have to have sex with a male (Fausto-Sterling 131).…
I agree with this point because society does play a role in framing the “correct” way in which individuals should behave to embrace the gender of male or female the “ideal”…
A woman should come across a soft spoken, feminine whereas a man should be masculine. However, every individual carries his/her own personality and behaviour inclusive of his/her gender. As West and Zimmerman suggests, that gender is not a social role, but is an individual arena based upon daily interactions and behaviours (West and Zimmerman 94). Hence, a person should not be forced to behave in a certain way. Moreover, the binary system forms separate roles for women and men in the society; so, when someone tries to perform a role of the opposite gender it is seen as exceptional and is not easily accepted like working moms and stay at home dads.…
Unit 5, Activity 4: ISP Essay Gender Inequality in Water for Elephants In today’s society, there is a common misconception between “gender” and “sex”. Although many believe these two identities to be similar in context, they have two different meanings: One’s “sex” refers to their genetic make-up (in terms of hormonal profile, sex organs etc.), while gender describes the characteristics that are classified as feminine or masculine by a culture or society. For example, in western cultures, women are usually seen as “more delicate and compassionate than men...have expectations to be domestic, warm, pretty, emotional, dependent, physically weak, and passive.”…
When thinking of religion there’s many things that come to mind. Religion is a very hard topic to understand because there is just so many questions and not too many answers to go along with the question. Religion can be judgemental; judging people’s sexuality, the way that others choose to live their lives, and making it seem that most things are wrong to do, but in the bible itself mentioned in Matthew 7: 1-2 “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you”.…
In Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta’s The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, Mitchell and Asta tell the stories of oppressed peoples such as ‘faggots’ and queer men, who must live off of what little possessions they have due to the inequalities of the society they live in. In Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex, Firestone details the possibility of a feminist revolution in the modern era which frees women from the natural and societal inequalities that they experience. In both texts, the effects of inequality in society are discussed. However, Mitchell and Asta detail the effects of inequality with respect to ‘faggots’ and queer men, wherein Firestone explains the effects of inequality in relation to women.…
Gender is constructed by the society. Although individuals are born sexed, they are not born gendered. Learning is required for individuals to become masculine or feminine. Children learn to talk, walk and gesture according to their social group’s beliefs of how boys and girls should act (Lorber, 1991). Gender is a human production which relies on everyone continual “doing gender” (West & Zimmerman, 1987).…
What is gender? Is it whether we are born with a girl’s body or a boy’s or does it have to do with how we are raised? Many people have weighed in on this discussion and in his article, “Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender”, Aaron H. Devor discusses how he believes that society is what shapes what we believe about gender. What we are told about what makes us male or female, according to Devor, is what determines what gender we determine ourselves to be.…
Gender Roles Effecting Americas Youth From the moment of birth one’s sex is how people identity who the baby is as a person. ““Women are not born, they are made” same is true for men” (Eckert, 735) throughout our lives our thoughts and actions are the outcomes of creating ourselves into what society believes how our sex should be acting. Both males and female are treated differently by parents and other adults of society, doing their gender work for the child. Buying clothing, and toys to teach the child and show others in society their sex and role that they play.…
“Night to his Day” by Judith Lorber addresses the idea that gender is not a biological distinction but is a socially constructed system. We are not born with a masculine or feminine identity just with male and female genitalia; hence gender roles are constructed by humans. Lorber explains that gender construction starts at birth where we are assigned a gender based on our genetaila, and then parents dress the child as the assigned gender to alleviate questions of their child’s sex. From the day that we are born society tells us what a “real girls/boy should looks like, how one acts and how one talks. We are then only recognized by those roles and when we do the opposite we have broken some cardinal rule.…
Society establishes gender rules which are a set of instructions of how a man or woman should appear and behave. We believe that doing gender is an accomplishment which allows for society and institutions to dictate the way we might dress or act. If we decide perhaps to do gender in a way that is not accepted, we are then policed by others to promote conformity. Due to the fact that we gender everything up to objects, it’s impossible ourselves to avoid doing gender. However, it becomes something we do not even…
In regards to gender, the “nature versus nurture” debate refers the opposition between a biologically-based conception and one grounded in social psychology. On the “nature” side, gender is a matter of a person 's physiological makeup. There are varying accounts of what body parts specifically are indicative of gender, with gonads, chromosomes, and reproductive organs being among the contenders for criterion of gender. Regardless, on this view gender and sex are correlated, and “male” and “female” are the only existing categories. Those individuals born with the appropriate “male” physiology are men, and those with the corresponding correct “female” anatomy are women.…
For centuries, mankind has had a propensity to utilise the biological distinctions of the sexes in order to enforce a societal distinction between the sexes, which is known as gender. Gender, as the socially imposed division of the sexes, allowed societies to delineate certain characteristics to each of the sexes, and thus assign different roles, moral codes, and, in certain societies, thoughts and emotions to them. As such, the study of gender is of profound importance to the manner in which one reads and studies literature. For instance, the delineation of the sexes prior to the 19th century, women were educated to a lesser extent than men, having an education limited to that of moral virtues, modern languages, and societal accomplishments…
In our modern times with ever-changing attitudes, it is becoming more important to distinguish between sex and gender. Sociologists describe sex as the biological differences between a male and a female, particularly anatomically and physiologically (Newman, 2016). Moreover, it helps to explain the genitalia differences, as well as our differences in hormones. Some may see sex as more difficult to define – it is not as easy as black and white – and may be seen as something continuous instead, rather than only male and female.…
Sociologist may associate biological influences on gender with the human behaviour and the structure of the human anatomy however; some sociologist may base their sociological influences on gender with cultural and environmental factors. This associates with the “nature vs. nuture” argument, as I will be exploring and comparing sociologist views on whether biology has more of an influence on gender or sociology. From a sociologist’s point of view, sex is referred to the biological approach and status for instance, a child will be indentified as boy or girl at birth due their genitals, for examples females have vaginas and males have penises. On the other hand, some sociologist may refer gender to the cultural approach and society’s mentality of how a males and females should conduct themselves. For example, if a male wears a dress, it may not be socially accepted.…