Sociology Week 5

Week Five Tuesday 9/25/18

By: Maddie Gums

            On Tuesday during class we watched a video talking about various cultures around the world and how modern society is impacting them. Another big topic that periodically comes up in class is gender, sociobiology, and gender roles. The definition of gender is the state of being male or female and this is typically used in reference to social and cultural differences in modern society and not biological ones. Some people are biologically male but will identify themselves as female in society. Sociobiology is the scientific study of biological (especially ecological, and evolutionary) views of social behavior in animals and humans. Sociologists agree that human behavior as well as some non-human behavior can be explained partially as the outcomes of natural selection. They claim that in order for behavior to be understood it must be analyzed within the terms of evolution. Gender roles still play a decently big role in our society today, some may even say the roles are reversing. You’ll always hear the terms “women belong in the kitchen and men should be making the money.”. But times are changing and now in 2018 less than 17% of moms are being stay at home moms and more of them are working at regular jobs. But nowadays men are tending to stay home which was unheard of 50 years ago.

One thing I can do to benefit myself and society is by promoting women to follow their dreams whether it be being a stay at home mom, or if it is going and working a job. This will benefit me because it will make me feel happy to encourage people, and this will help society because it will have people who actually want to work work.

One thing I can do to negatively impact myself and society is by being against the fact that gender roles in modern society are not a problem. If I ignore the fact that some people think I shouldn’t be able to work or drive or provide for myself it would degrade how I feel about myself. This would be bad for society because if someone doesn’t start fixing the problem no one ever will think of women as equal.

One thing society can do to positively impact me is by making women and men have to be paid equal amounts and by working with the people to show that times have changed, and women can do the things men do vice versa. This will make women and men feel better about where they are placed in society.

One thing society can do to impact me in a negative way is by not taking into consideration that women’s rights are very important to many people and that they must start taking into consideration that these views need to be addressed.

A solution to not having equal rights among genders would be by providing more gender equality and gender studies classes to people whether it be in high school or even to adults for a low cost or even free.

Chapter 5 Questions:

1: What is the most important step of self development?

2: Can social isolation kill someone?

3: What stage of life has the most conflict for most people?