Summary Of A Dialectical Model Of Family Gender Discourse

The topic of our group presentation was A Dialectical Model of Family Gender Discourse: Body, Identity, and Sexuality. The goal of our article was to propose a dialectical model representing gender discourse in families. .The focus of my research paper is also the same with a focus more on gender and identity in a family. The articles that I research comply with this topic quite well, touching especially on gender and identity in the family. I used three articles that touched on my topic; "Gender, Identity, and Language Use in Teen Blogs," by David Huffaker, and Sandra Calvat, "Sociologist looks at gender roles in evangelical families," by John Bartkowski, and "Gendered Discourse about Family Business," by Sharon Danes, Heather Haberman,
"Sociologist looks at gender roles in evangelical families, focused on the gender roles of the husband and the wife. In the last article, "Gender, Identity, and Language Use in Teen Blogs," examines the issues of online identity about their gender and identity. All articles prove to be somewhat different but focus on the roles of Gender and Identity.
"Gender, Identity, and Language Use in Teen Blogs," by David Huffaker, and Sandra Calvat the article explores the concept of the World Wide Web and its usage among tees, male and female. The internet is one of the most popular and common assets to teens, and probably one of the most used activities out there. "While physical constraints such as the body, biological sex, race, or age can
The focus was how teenagers present their identities online, and how they use language to express experience and their feelings. Their hypotheses was; females will use more emoticons to express their feelings, males will provide personal information of their identity such as their age name and location, males will use more aggressive language than females, females will use more passive and cooperative language, and females will discuss more intimate topics like their sexual identity more than males. The results were almost identical with their hypotheses, but the males were surprisingly carrying on the female traditional roles somewhat, for example, a small amount of males used expressive language and talked about intimate topics. The study is a clear example and supporting evidence of the traditional gender