Gender Studies: Media Socialization Colorado State University‚ Pueblo Abstract After reading Chapter 13 in our text book‚ I now look at commercials‚ magazine ads and other advertisements in a different light. In the text book‚ Lindsey highlighted the very common approach that media uses to enforce the social expectations in gender roles. The advertisement I will discuss throughout my paper came from the May 2010 issue of Everyday with Rachel Ray. The three page Chevy advertisement
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This editorial called “Gender in the Classroom”‚ written by Debrorah Tannen‚ was mainly about her study of men and women in the classroom. Throughout this editorial she discussed the various behaviors among people that result from gender-related styles of talking. After observing how people conduct themselves in different environments‚ she then explains how she changes her teaching methods to accommodate these behaviors. She states that a colleague of hers found that “more women began to speak
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Gender Roles Growing up children don’t really understand too much about finances and how their parents work them out. Looking back‚ I can conclude that my parents had it all figured out and did what worked best for them. Obviously each family and its financial situation is different‚ but based on a married couple‚ both employed‚ with children‚ financial decision s should be made equally and‚ if possible‚ finances should be divided up evenly. Both partners should have say so in how finances are
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2650: Labeling Theory Part 1 “Social groups create deviance by creating the rules whose infraction constitutes deviance‚ and by applying those rules to particular people and labelling them as outsiders …. The deviant is one to whom that label has successfully been applied; deviant behavior is behavior that people so label.’ Howard Becker (1963) Lecture Overview 1. Labeling Theory: An Introduction 2. Labeling theory’s starting premises: Social construction 3. Early labeling Theory 4. Assessing
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Bandar Altameemi Oct 20‚ 2013 Report # 8 Video: “The brain in love” By: Helen Fisher Anthropologist Helen Fisher and her research team studies gender difference and evolution of human emotions‚ took MRIs of people in love‚ and people who had just been dumped. Fisher explains in this video our physical need for romantic love‚ and to learn more about it. Helen Fisher talks about her research by putting thirty two people who are madly in love into function MRI brain scanner ‚ the result shows
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Structural theories One of the theories is Marxism who studies society on a macro perspective so they generate a lot of statistics. They concentrate a lot on class and believe there is conflict between two opposing classes’ bourgeoisie and working class. They have a similar view to the social action theory and that view is in society there is struggle between the powerful and the powerless. They also have a view on feminism and that is it’s not just men who exploit women but also capitalist. Their
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The Stubborn Gender Gap When a congressional committee hearing presented an all-male panel of witnesses to discuss female contraception last month‚ Carolyn Moloney made news by demanding‚ “Where are the women?” Nearly 50 years after the modern women’s movement began‚ such omissions remain common- and yet many people assume the battle for equality is largely over. Perfectly nice guys will say to me‚ “You must be so happy you’ve won!” reports Gloria Steinem. I say‚ “But are you working for a women
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Psychologist: Women earning doctoral degrees in psychology outnumber men three to one. The gender disparity in psychology is part of a larger academic trend: Women are increasingly outnumbering men throughout higher education‚ including doctoral programs. According to a September report from the Council of Graduate Schools‚ women earned more doctoral degrees than men for the first time in 2009. But the gender imbalance is especially pronounced in psychology. In developmental and child psychology‚ for
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social status of men and womean is the dominance of men in almost every aspect of modern life. This culturaly-established male dominance can be explained in many ways and from a variety of perspectives. An evolutionary approach might suggest that the gender roles have evolved over a long period of time in a way that naturally selected men and woman into the roles and social statuses they hold today. Education played a role in these social statuses because the men were thought to be well educated and
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Theories of Motivation Arousal: * A person’s state of alertness and mental and physical activation. Arousal Theory: * People are motivated to maintain an optimal level of arousal. * The optimal level is different for all of us. Stimulus Motives: * Motives that cause us to increase stimulation. * Appear to be unlearned‚ * Curiosity‚ exploration‚ and play that occur when your arousal is too low. Yerkes-Dodson Law Yerkes-Dodson Law: * Principle that performance on a
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