The Cycle Of Socialization By Bobbie Harro

Journal 2 The Cycle of Socialization by Bobbie Harro gives an accurate description how social norms are created in society, and how we learn them and the consequences of not abiding by the norms. The social norms and identities that we picked are heavily influenced by what family we are born into. Growing my mother would always enforce to my twin sister and I that items such as clothes, toys, or school supplies we’re assigned to different genders based on their color. Whenever my sister wanted something that was the color blue, or black she would tell my sister that it was meant for boys because of it had dark colors and would insist her to find something that had a lighter color. This influenced my sister and I a lot because still to this day whenever I buy clothes or any other item I rarely

In Adichie Tedtalk she mentions how in a lot of situations she feels the need to prove herself because she is a woman when she in a professional setting. This is similar to what one of the classmates said about her mother who has been working in the same workplace for over 25 years and from the way she described her experience she still needs to prove herself and work harder than everyone else. She has to always be serious or else no one else will. The video also related to how men in many cases do not have to prove themselves in most cases. Men already have the privilege of having respect without having to work for it. The video and the article also made me think of an experience Eileen had with one of her old professors in the engineering department. She mention how her professor would noticeably treat women differently than other men. He would even give her or other girls specific task to complete different from the other guys because he saw that the task would fit them better because of their