Diagnosing the Purpose for awareness
Kerber, De Hart, and Dayton, authors of “Introduction: Gender and the New Women’s History,” state that, “Economics, law, politics … [were] permeated by assumptions, practices, and expectations that were deeply gendered … so much a part of the ordinary, everyday experience that they acquired an aura of naturalness, rightness, even inevitability …" Because order is reinforced by institutions of power (e.g., schools, government, policies, etc.), the status quo or how things are in society is seen as natural and unchanging.
By critiquing the way things "naturally" are we threaten the status quo by offering hope for change in society. We are trying to deconstruct systemic oppression and directly challenges our elitist capitalistic White supremacist patriarchal society.
[Common sense], as anthropologist Clifford Geertz had shrewdly observed, ‘is not what the mind has cleared of cant spontaneously apprehends; it is what the mind filled with presuppositions … concludes’” (Kerber, De Hart, Dayton, 14).
In other words, how the world is what one sees has become the way it is because historical society in America has made it the “way” of living. Men and women have been socialized to believe that one can only behave, dress and talk a certain way because of their gender. Socialization has helped define and separate gender roles: ultimately, creating a rigid structure, which leaves little room for people to perform in different manners.
During the industrial era, the status one was given depended on the status of the man. This idea applies because of the creation of the new middle class family, which further perpetuated a divide between men and women through the enforcement of the private/public sphere, Cult of True Womanhood, and the roles and implications of race.
By critiquing the way things "naturally" are we threaten the status quo by offering hope for change in society. We are trying to deconstruct systemic oppression and directly challenges our elitist capitalistic White supremacist patriarchal society.
[Common sense], as anthropologist Clifford Geertz had shrewdly observed, ‘is not what the mind has cleared of cant spontaneously apprehends; it is what the mind filled with presuppositions … concludes’” (Kerber, De Hart, Dayton, 14).
In other words, how the world is what one sees has become the way it is because historical society in America has made it the “way” of living. Men and women have been socialized to believe that one can only behave, dress and talk a certain way because of their gender. Socialization has helped define and separate gender roles: ultimately, creating a rigid structure, which leaves little room for people to perform in different manners.
During the industrial era, the status one was given depended on the status of the man. This idea applies because of the creation of the new middle class family, which further perpetuated a divide between men and women through the enforcement of the private/public sphere, Cult of True Womanhood, and the roles and implications of race.
In my perspective how we think of gender, as binaries or man and women, is problematic in so many ways. Women and men across eras have internally been established to believe there is a specific way to act and be a woman or a man.
As a growing young adult I have always been fascinated in the developmental psychology of understanding how people's gender roles were first established and/or what influenced it to be what it is today.
The issue I have chosen involves the development of society. To say Gender Roles aren't an issue of importance would be to deny the many factual differences there are economically, sociably, politically, and environmentally most commonly associated with a persons gender identity (role) and association.
Through this project what is expected to accomplish is an understanding for gender roles and/or the social realization that as a society we will always be living in a different time. What I wish to accomplish with my project is not only become more informed on the development of how these gender roles have maintained the same since then, but to bring people to a realization of why they have grown to think specific ways are the "right or proper way" to act.
Personally I see gender roles as something I have to always confront on a daily basis. Living in a low income class home with parents set on the beliefs of what is traditionally conformed as "being a girl" or "acting like a man" my parents and I don't necessary agree on certain subjects.
Living in an environment where to dress, behave or think out of what is considered a norm in my household is outrageous and to some extent justifiable to be punished or outcast for. Being a young adult well aware of the things I am and things I believe I always feel as if my presence is always in need of explanation and or as if there is a special reason or problem with me that states the characteristics I am trying to "portray" rather than am.
This issue is of importance to be analyzed and be brought forth more often in the fact that it is something people tend to overlook and or avoid. It is more comfortable and easy for a person to simply avoid an issue than to actually sit down and discuss. The reason for this is conformity and the factors that surround dis conformity ( Normative and Informational influence.)
As a growing young adult I have always been fascinated in the developmental psychology of understanding how people's gender roles were first established and/or what influenced it to be what it is today.
The issue I have chosen involves the development of society. To say Gender Roles aren't an issue of importance would be to deny the many factual differences there are economically, sociably, politically, and environmentally most commonly associated with a persons gender identity (role) and association.
Through this project what is expected to accomplish is an understanding for gender roles and/or the social realization that as a society we will always be living in a different time. What I wish to accomplish with my project is not only become more informed on the development of how these gender roles have maintained the same since then, but to bring people to a realization of why they have grown to think specific ways are the "right or proper way" to act.
Personally I see gender roles as something I have to always confront on a daily basis. Living in a low income class home with parents set on the beliefs of what is traditionally conformed as "being a girl" or "acting like a man" my parents and I don't necessary agree on certain subjects.
Living in an environment where to dress, behave or think out of what is considered a norm in my household is outrageous and to some extent justifiable to be punished or outcast for. Being a young adult well aware of the things I am and things I believe I always feel as if my presence is always in need of explanation and or as if there is a special reason or problem with me that states the characteristics I am trying to "portray" rather than am.
This issue is of importance to be analyzed and be brought forth more often in the fact that it is something people tend to overlook and or avoid. It is more comfortable and easy for a person to simply avoid an issue than to actually sit down and discuss. The reason for this is conformity and the factors that surround dis conformity ( Normative and Informational influence.)