Sociology 101- Oka
Name: Bui Duc Tai
Discussion topic Week #1
• Being influenced by society is inevitable. As the society developed, it shaped us in many different ways. Doubtlessly, our social background has affected our behavior, attitude and more importantly, life chances. Consequently, our life altered in either good or bad from those configurations of the society. And for me, I’m not an exception. Back in Vietnam, I was taught the rudimental about respect for others. Basically, in order to gain respect from others, we have to learn how to respect ourselves first. Therefore, we acquired the cherishing thought for others and for ourselves as an equal human being. However, the American culture is much more broad and diverse. It’s not difficult
Some people agree with this belief, especially the feminine. Others disagree. Personally, I'm more inclined with this assumption. I believe that the crucial cause from sexism is because peoples are too ignorant about how prominence this kind of issue is. Furthermore, men are psychologically gained the illusion that they can always dominant women. "Inuit" research from Franz Boast indicates that " Humans are fundamentally equal". He also mentions that adaptation is imperative, each of individual of us had shaped so much that we don't even realize the critical problems from those modifications. We began to have conflicts, divisions with no other but with people around us. Thus, one of the most controversial problem is the equality between men and women. For instance, in Vietnam, domestic violence against women can be considered normal. Nonetheless, from that private trouble leads to public issue. When a male arousingly assaulted a female partner, that is a private issue. But when they catch the public eyes, somebody would come to help them, makes it into a public issue. Hence, as an community, we should come up with a absolute solution for it such as raising awareness, donating, helping those in need. Comparasingly, we found the contrary side between cause and solution of sexism. Peoples are unaware to this kind of issue when it has occurred to them. On the contrary, they tend to defend the victim who got abused, assaulted by other
As a female, I have certainly been adversely affected by sexism. I trust that females are adversely affected by sexism ordinary because of what we see, particularly in the media. Consistently, we are overwhelmed with messages in regards to weight, good looks and being the "perfect, impeccable, women." Although messages that are pitched at us are not sensibly genuine and some of the time about difficult to achieve, despite everything they impact us. Looking at TV, most of the advertisements that play are either about losing weight, foods low in fat, or attractive, petite models strutting their stuff around the TV screen. This relates a great deal to what Abra Fortune Chernik says in her piece called "The Body Politic." Chernik (2010) which quotes
Have you ever felt discriminated against in the workplace? Usually, women are the most common people that are mistreated in the workplace. There are many reasons why women are discriminated against, but none of them are excuses for women for not being successful. Women face sexism by getting less pay than men, not getting promoted as equally as men, and facing other gender stereotypes, but sexism can be solved by women confronting their internal and external barriers and finding people that can help women.
Sexism is the ideology that maintains that one sex is inherently inferior to the other. Sexism or discrimination based on gender has been a social issue for many years; it is the ideology that one sex is superior or inferior to the other. Sexism does not only affect females, but also males. Men are very often victimized by social stereotypes and norms based on gender expectations. Sexism has appears in almost all social institutions including family, the media, religion, sports, the military, politics, and the government. However, although both genders are affected, men have benefited from sexism the most (Thompson 300-301.)
As women are forced to adhere to beauty standards, men are allowed to be confident in who they are. They are not bombarded with images of the perfect women, allow there is beauty standards that are expected of men (must be tall, muscular, etc). Women are not allowed to explore their sexuality in the same way that men are. If they do mimic the behavior of men, they are viciously slut shamed. This can occur by both men and women, as women can be rude and mean to other women who explore sexually. Sexism also creates a different reality for men and women in the way that they express emotions. In The Mask We LIve In, it shows that we live in a culture in which boys are not allowed to cry. This reality is different for women who are fully allowed to express their full range of emotions. Men, however, are only really allowed to be angry. This repression of emotion leads to outbursts and violence, a possible explanation as to why men are more likely to commit violent crimes. By creating these different realities, sexism has shaped my own life. Growing up in a Mexican household, I was expected to clean the house everyday. My brother was not expected to do this, as he had to clean outside with my father. This separation in responsibilities enforced a strict role that men and women had to follow. In addition to this, I saw sexism in the relationship between my parents. My father had full economic control over my mother. As an abuser, he would use this control to dominate my mother’s actions. Internalizing this, my mother would blame herself for his abuse. In all of these ways, sexism has negatively impacted my life. I have, at times, sustained and strengthened sexism by adhering to gender roles and placing these gender roles on other. Throughout elementary school, I placed certain expectations of masculinity on my peers. If someone were to do something that was considered feminine, I would say, “that’s
At a young age people learned sexist ways and how to say things, but they were never told that it was sexist. But as you grow older that’s all you hear is, it’s not mail man is mail deliver or lunch lady it is actually the food server. There are also people that have been taught to not be sexist, those people tend not to be corrected that often. And one of the things that get people the most, is when people think of rolls in society that are given to those men and women. You can also see all forms of sexism being used at school, in sports, or at a job, and also toward both men and women of both past and present and how it is also a big deal in other countries.
Society shapes peoples belief systems, behaviours and values. It affects individual’s tastes in art, music and fashion. Everyone is influence
Misogyny, objectification of women, and sexual assault, defined as “unwanted sexual contact, which includes sexual touching as well as rape (Matlin, 2012, pg. 294) is all included within this song. These themes are evident in the lyrics that read “Baby I 'm preying on you tonight, hunt you down eat you alive” and “maybe you think that you can hide, I can smell your scent for miles.” These lines imply that the stalker will not stop tracking her down until she is found, no matter what the woman does to hide or protect herself, because of this expression of an active and determined pursuit. “Maybe you think that you can hide I can smell your scent from miles” implies that she will inevitably be found by her stalker eventually, as this may encourage
Throughout history, women have been mistreated as the weaker gender. It has been evident throughout the epic of Sunjata, the history of Greek society as well as Indian society. It is evident today with the social classes we have formed that there are predominant gender roles in our society; history as we know tends to repeat itself.
People are discriminated due to different reasons. That black guy can’t have a job in his country. That woman can’t get a degree and move forward in her education to reach her ambitions. That immigrant can’t work in that foreign country. All these are forms of prejudice which simply means to prejudge. So, as shown there are many forms of prejudice such as sexual, racial, age, and linguistic prejudices.
It was difficult for me to choose a gender norm violation to perform, but while I began working at my new restaurant job in September after knowing about the gender norm assignment, I decided to take the position of opening the door for customers. Usually the male hosts were assigned this job, however I spoke with my manager about being assigned this position for a few shifts. The gender norm that I was violating was holding the door open for male customers, and I was particularly interested in their reactions. This violation was especially apparent to me when an elder man refused to let me hold the door open for him even though it was my job. He asked me if my job was ‘door opener’ and when I told him it was, he responded with “a pretty woman like you should not be holding open the doors.
... that occurs by men upon women is neither stopped nor prevented because our society has yet to decide whether it is within gender roles for a man to act this way or whether this violence must be changed. In society today, violence is accepted by some people, as a way to maintain control, which is why men still believe that sexism is the right way to act like the ideal man.
My culture respects the people and the things that deserve it, but with that said, we also don’t give respect to the people who don’t deserve it. We don’t just respect anyone or anything neither, they have to earn that valuable thing that most people don’t have nor give anymore. This is probably one of the biggest differences between my culture and my society because in my society people don’t know the first thing about respect. The way i see it is that it really is a shame of how my society and these people that live in it can’t show even a little bit of respect for someone or something, big or small. Respect is one of the dying characteristics in this world and my culture has the last of it.
1. My result for hostile sexism was between zero and one, while my score for benevolent sexism was between one and two. My scores were closest to the average female and male in England and Australia for benevolent sexism. However, my hostile sexism was very low compared to all the countries that were listed. My scores surprised me, because I did not expect my benevolent sexism score to be closest to England or Australia. More simply, I did not expect other females and males to have similar scores, so the graphs were shocking. My results were furthest from Cuba, Nigeria, and Syria. My scores for hostile and benevolent sexism were very low compared to average women and men in Nigeria, Syria, and Cuba. I was not surprised by these results, because these countries are known to practice traditional gender roles. In other words, I was not surprised that
Human beings undergo different stages of development. During the development, people experience various constraints and detriments depending on their gender, race, social status, among other factors. The society plays an incredible role in human development. Everyone deals with eth society in different ways; through education, work, communication, or socializing. Therefore, social influence is inevitable. Scholars go as far as singling out social status being a lifelong limiting factor of human development (Bartholomae, & Petrosky, 2003).
We employ a social networks perspective to answer our primary research question: does gender matter in the academic profession of sociology? Our empirical approach focuses on how the gender composition of a core group of people who provide instrumental support to scholars in the field of sociology has evolved over time. Rather than drawing attention to simply whether the presence of women is disproportionately small in the field, we seek to understand whether there are differences in the relative influence exerted by men and women within the profession of sociology- that is, we focus not on the exclusion of women but rather on how women are included in the communal process of providing feedback. In academia, where the reputation of scholars