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¶ … socialization agents you selected and explain how these agents influence gender role development across two different cultures. Then, describe two socialization agents that influenced your own gender role development and explain how. Finally, explain how your gender role development might have been affected if you were raised in a different culture.
Culture and gender: The socialization agents of the schools and the popular media
While students may often debate issues related to gender equality in school, schools can also reinforce gender-based stereotypes. Teachers may unintentionally reinforce traditional gender roles by the types of stories they select to read in literature classes; the students they call upon to answer math problems; and the different types of expectations they set for their students. Even within the relatively egalitarian United States, these practices have been observed. In fact, in America the myth of...
Although women today have outnumbered men by a narrow percentage at many universities, this barrier (psychological and logistical) to women making inroads in STEM fields remains in 2013. Employment prospects for humanities and social science graduates are even worse than in the 1990s. Rather than fight the problem of sexism, many schools are creating single-gender classrooms as a way of coping with the fact that girls' performance in math and science tends to falter at puberty. Sadker sees this as a Band-Aid solution, rather than truly…
According to David Sadker in 1999, sexual segregation still existed in the United States educational system -- women are likely to major in the far less lucrative fields of the humanities, and concentrating in these subjects lead to far dimmer employment prospects (Sadker 1999:23). Although women today have outnumbered men by a narrow percentage at many universities, this barrier (psychological and logistical) to women making inroads in STEM fields remains in 2013. Employment prospects for humanities and social science graduates are even worse than in the 1990s. Rather than fight the problem of sexism, many schools are creating single-gender classrooms as a way of coping with the fact that girls' performance in math and science tends to falter at puberty. Sadker sees this as a Band-Aid solution, rather than truly addressing the problems of gender equity in the classroom 'head on.' After all, real life is not segregated by sex.
Sadker has a point: even though single-gender classrooms may show greater gains for students in the short run, many nations with gendered educational systems (such as those in traditional societies, in the Middle and Near East, or nations such as Japan where private single-sex schools are more actively patronized) do not show demonstrably more equity between men and women in performance on tests of math and science. In fact, in only two nations do women outperform males in STEM subjects: Sweden and Iceland, where traditionally males have focused on hunting and fishing as a way of life, versus white collar jobs (Can girls excel in math and science, 2009, Education in Japan Community Blog). But this should not be seen as evidence that women are innately uninterested in or poor in math. "Records from top schools in Boston show that girls outperformed boys in physics in the mid-19th century" and female enrollment was higher in these classes while "Latin and Greek…were considered the province of gentlemen -- until the 20th century, when lucrative opportunities began to open up in the sciences" (Can girls excel in math and science, 2009, Education in Japan Community Blog). Schools can have a powerful shaping influence in determining what subjects are gendered male and female, and thus indirectly affect the future of students in terms of what career paths they choose and what salaries they eventually earn.
The popular media can also have a profound influence upon gender perceptions. Children consume many hours of television per day, often at ages before they can exercise their critical faculties to evaluate the accuracy and
Political Socialization Almost every individual in today's society has a set of political beliefs or values, but most of us hardly ever pause to think why we have such beliefs and how we have acquired them. Are they our own ideas or have we been influenced by others in our thinking? Most political scientists are of the opinion that people are not born with political ideas, nor do we manufacture them,
The topic for this paper is to determine what is meant by social change from the perspective of graduate students today. The paper is organized into four parts. The first part presents a background statement concerning the issue of interest and the gap in the existing body of knowledge the study intends to address. A description concerning the role of the researcher is provided in the second part and an
Pharmaceutical industries have to operate in an environment that is highly competitive and subject to a wide variety of internal and external constraints. In recent times, there has been an increasing trend to reduce the cost of operation while competing with other companies that manufacture products that treat similar afflictions and ailments. The complexities in drug research and development and regulations have created an industry that is subject to intense
" e) Develops abilities the first child doesn't exhibit. f) if the first child is successful, they may feel uncertain of themself and their abilities. g) May be rebellious. h) Often doesn't like their position. i) Feels "squeezed," if a third child is born. j) May push down other siblings (Birth, 5). Laterborns tend to use low-power strategies, such as whining, pleading, humor, social intelligence, offers of reciprocal altruism, and, whenever
It was then important to see the degree at which technology and training played a role in combating each fire. 1.2.4.Rationale of the Study What is that can be gained from this study? The reasoning behind such a study is born out of a need to provide better training for fire fighters so that fire management systems will improve and reduce the amount of loss due to the fire. By studying
Such relationships in childhood begin with the parents, and for Asher, these early relationships are also significant later, as might be expected. However, as Potok shows in this novel, for someone like Asher, the importance of childhood bonds and of later intimate bonds are themselves stressed by cultural conflicts between the Hasidic community in its isolation and the larger American society surrounding it. For Asher, the conflict is between the