Gender Socialization

Killing us Softly by Jean Kilbourne

This video is about how society and advertisers portray women through the use of media. It tells us how even in advertisements how society labels woman as the soft weak ones. She gave us an example where in one of the advertisement there was two kids, a boy and a girl were standing next to each other and the boy was shown to be tough and the girl was just smiling back at him. This shows that even as kids society portrays women to be the weak one, with the man being the stronger one. She also talked about how society labels woman as sexist through the use of advertisement and how young girls were being sexulized also through the use of advertisement. She gave us examples of how designers would use young girls to wear their products in a vulgar form to have their products sell. She said that the way women are portrayed in the advertisement it made some young girls self esteems drop because after watching the advertisement it made them feel like they are not perfect enough.

A Call to Men by Tony Poter

This video is about how men are taught to be men from as young as 5 years old and we have something called a man box which is rules and guidelines that as a man you should follow and are taught not go against any of the rules. He talks about how some men view women as objects and have less value towards them. He said that this is some of the causes of  violence against women and rape. He gave some examples of how a man is suppose to be which some are not to cry, demonstrate power control and not to be gay. His maint point was that we should work together on how parents raise their sons and its ok for a man to expresss his emotions and that both men and women should be equal and the male don't have to be dominating.  


The way these two videos are connected to socialization are the ways in which we socialize. Meaning the way how we were taught to interact with one another and the way how society has it for us to to treat one another. It's also connected by the agents of socialization which is his or her family and how their teaching affects the person thinking and the way how they look at the opposite gender.

Society

This week I learnt about different things for example, different statuses, roles and groups. I also learnt about how society gives us different roles status without us even asking for it. For example when we are born we are given a status which is defined by our gender. If you are born a man you have to play that role of man and if you a woman you have to play that role of a woman. For some of us we may not want to act or play that role which was assigned to us. It happens in groups also where everyone in the group as a role to play and most times the groups as a certain status which it maintains. This happens in everyday life but I never really thought of it on this level which is taught by our professor. I also learnt of the different types of groups for example, a primary group and a secondary group. We go through life sometimes without even recongnizing these stuff and it was interesting for me to learn about it. The more I learn about sociology, it shows me more in depth about society and how society classes everything and everyone.

Society: Interactions and Groups

This week I learnt about society and how we as an indivdual interact with one another.I also learnt about how we adapt to different situations in terms of how how our emotions changes an how we respond differently in different situations. We talked about how different organizations interact with one another. For example how the government interacts with the business community for several reasons with one being the reason to know how to make the country a better business place. I also learnt the process in which we create our own identity by using the "looking glass self" method. This was interestng becuase this very true because we all look at ourselves in the mirror and try to see how the world would view us and we use the ideas or response to develop our identity. I also learnt about "Dramaturgy" which is they way we would carry ourselves around different people. For example, the way we would speak with out parents wouldn't be the same as if it was our friends or class mates. We would have respect for our parents and may not use vulgar terms in the presents of them, but we would use those terms in front of our friends.  Sociology keeps getting more interesting.

Culture and Society

In class were learn't about different types of cultures like sub-culture, counter culture and culture shock. This was interesting to me becuase before I didn't know that these existed. We also talked about how society see the people in these cultures and how they are treated. It was interesting to learn that some cultures are not accepted by everyone and it would seem strange to some foreigners visiting the giving country. This is becuase I have experienced it for myself the first time I came to New York. I was in a culture shock because of how the people interacted with one another and what would seem normal for the average New Yorker would of seem weird to me.