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History:
Civil rights movement -French Revolution
World War I
- American Revolution
World War II
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Cold War
Habits:
being even
same morning routine
soccer superstition
eating the same meals
temper
Hobbies:
soccer
- listening to music
working out - going on walks
eating
- reading
JESUS CHRIST:
Who knew Jesus Christ?
What time period did he live from?
What made him perfect?
How does he still have such a strong affect people in today's society?
Why did God pick him as his Son?
Why should you believe in him?
Is the Bible the truth or a myth?
Is heaven real?
If heaven is real, will you really be able to meet Jesus?
What would happen if the idea of Jesus and God were not real?
How would society be different without religion?
How would people be different without religion?
How would culture change without religion?
How was the Idea of God made?
Is gender necessary?
How does the acceptance of gender roles become less/more important due to
geographical location?
What are different cultural values/ beliefs about gender?
I would like to test the theory of the different perspectives on gender roles and how it has
affected people over the years. I would also like to look at how gender roles has altered
our view on life and ourselves.
My Perspective:
I never thought much about how gender roles affected people until coming to PSU. I understand
how there is a clear inequality still between men and women especially in the working world.
When I found out people did not want to be correlated with a gender I immediately was struck
because I did not understand why people did not want to have a gender. I am interested in the
different perspectives on the idea of socially constructed gender.
NOTES
Project: The Social Construction of Gender
Source: On Heterosexual Masculinity
First thoughts:
This article talks about how a key role of being affiliated with the gender role of a man is to be
homophobic. This is believed to be because men are supposed to be the strong bread winners and
not feminine. The term homophobia when broken down means the fear of gays. This term is not
used correctly because it is not fear that people have against gays it's the socially constructed
roles that has created this idea that it is not okay to be gay for several reasons including power.
Notes:
Both males and females probably hold roughly similar positions on general questions on
morality and civil liberties, but males are more homophobic in their emotional reactions to
homosexuality (3).
Heterosexuals negative attitudes toward lesbians and gay men are consistently correlated with
traditional views of gender and family roles (3)
This pattern undoubtedly is related to widespread stereotypes that gay people violate the
demands of such roles; gay men commonly are perceived as effeminate and lesbian women are
masculine (3)
Variables such as race, class, gender and sexual orientation are human creations, based on
certain observable phenomena that come to be defined in certain ways through social interaction
over time (5)
The social constructionist position holds that what most people call reality in a consensus
worldview that develops through social interaction (5)
Second thoughts:
After reading this article, I got a better understanding of the male perspective on gender roles.
They are taught from a young age what a true man and how to be one. This is where they get
their toughness from. As different sexual orientations are present and social roles change, the
man tries to hold on to the views and roles that they were taught from a kid even if its not the
same anymore. There are many more factors than just gender roles such as race that are
constructed through socialization over times. The fact that these positions are created through
socialization means they can change over time.
Citation
Herek, G. M. (1986). On heterosexual masculinity: "some psychical consequences of the social
construction of gender and sexuality". The American Behavioral Scientist, 29(5), 563.
Link: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1306752311?accountid=13265
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required to dress and present themselves as females to ensure there is a clear distinction between
men and women. The gender roles to this day, still cause segregation especially in the wok
world. Also, from when we are little we learn quickly in school that whatever sex you are that is
the gender you are supposed to affiliate yourself with and that is very clear with humans because
the only factor separating a man and women sexual is their genitalia.
Citations:
"'Night to His Day': The Social ComtLlction of Gender," in Paradoxes or Gender, pp. 54-63.
Copyright 1994. Reprinted by permission of Yale University Press.
Link:http://130.58.92.210/Students/phys29_2013/ElectronicReadings/Week%2012/Lorber.pdf