Alivia Boddie Sociology-Gender 10/5 Learning and Doing Gender The way that our culture views gender differs from others. The process of socialization that we experience when we are young helps us determine our gender and sex system within the context of our society. Children are well aware of the gender behaviors and what is appropriate and what is not. The “pink and blue syndrome” is very apparent in every aspect of our society; it has become an unconscious pattern that we have followed.
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The Consequences of Doing Gender in College The most commonly preached and accepted social path for an individual is to go through elementary and secondary school‚ and immediately follow that with some sort of a post-secondary education. We must take the skills we have learned in grade school and apply them‚ as we become adults. Schools where a student can receive a degree are regarded as the highest quality by society. We are lead to believe that the college or university campus is filled with
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DOING GENDER ARTICLE • 1960s‚ 1970s- sex: ascribed to biology by anatomy‚ hormones and physiology. Gender: achieved status: constructed through psychology‚ cultural and social means • Sex didn’t seem given in ambiguous / conflicting criteria‚ gender less achievement in ant/psyc/social imperatives- division of labour‚ formulation of gender identities‚ social subordination of women by men • Gender socialization theories: gender achieved by age 5 was fixed‚ unvarying and static like sex • Purpose:
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Doing gender article talks about the actions that we all display on a daily bases or things we see in others actions every day. Since society has given us the free will to be whomever we want in expressing ourselves‚ many do just that freely. The authors were curious to dig a little deeper in finding how these individuals choose to identify themselves with their actions. So their main purpose of this article is to “propose an ethnomethodologically informed‚ and therefore distinctively sociological
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"Doing Gender" At dinner: I was out at dinner one night and I took sometime to start observing the different ways men and women "do gender". As men and women came into the restaurant I began to notice how different we walk‚ the women seem to walk with their legs much closer together with a dainty tippy-toe gait the men however walk with the legs further apart and much more of a slow dragging stroll. Watching the different groups of both sexes eating there were many similarities‚ the women have
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While many have mixed emotions on gender and gender doing‚ it is quite obvious that many of us have learned that the relationship between biological and cultural processes predict how we label gender. In many cases people fail to distinguish between sex and gender‚ forbidding to come to the realization that gender is an achieved status that we constrict for ourselves. A very interesting discussion regarding Agnes experience on the article Doing Gender by West and Zimmerman really proves how society
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Gender Binaries are way for societies to further segregate people based on their gender. Gender Binaries are the classification of sex and gender based on two distinct groups based on masculinity and femininity. Queer theory is critical of gender binaries because these theorists feel that gender identity and sexual orientation are not definitive. Therefore‚ queer theory explains “that gender and sexual orientations are variable instead of fixed” (Queer Theory: What is Queer Theory?). Additionally
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Children and Gender During a child ’s development‚ they are exposed to socialization and are taught by their parents and society how they should act; this alters their gender schema‚ often times causing the child to negatively reflect upon society ’s gender roles. The gender schema theory suggests “gender identification emerged from his or her cognitive development and societal influences” (Bem 2). When children are in a cognitive development state (information processing)‚ they are heavily influenced
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With sexual orientation and heredity; some theories assume that these topics go hand in hand. When discussing the theories behind gender norms‚ it is first important to realize that gender norms and gender identity are completely separated concepts. The gender norms theory are “ what make up a sex role‚ which recognizes that there are a set of expectations about how someone labeled a man or someone labeled a women should behave” (Ryle‚ p.119). Gender norms are sets of rules that define what is fitting
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Gender Schema Theory What is gender schema theory? Gender schema theory was formally introduced by Sandra Bem in 1981 as a cognitive theory to explain how individuals become gendered in society‚ and how sex-linked characteristics are maintained and transmitted to other members of a culture. Gender-associated information is predominantly transmuted through society by way of schemata‚ or networks of information that allow for some information to be more easily assimilated than others. Bem argues
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