Gender Roles In American Culture

Family plays an important role in every society. It is the main structure that made up a good society. Samovar, Porter & McDaniel (2015) write, “families are instrumental in teaching young people about their identities, how they fit into their culture, and where to find security” (p.73). Family is the first school in one’s life. In the early stages of our life, we learn how to eat, speak, communicate, and behave from our family, consciously and unconsciously we imitate our parents. In my religion (Islam) there is a great deal of attention to the importance of marriage and making family. Prophet Mohammad said, “The best of you is the best to his family and I am the best amongst you to my family”. Moreover, Islam assign a role to each member of the family, as parents take care of their children and the children should respect and obey their mother and father. I totally agree with Samovar, Porter & McDaniel (2015) when they mentioned that “the three most influential social organizations are (1) family, (2) state, and (3) religion” (p.70). For me, I believe that my family shapes most of my identity.

We were born into a family， mature in a family， form new families， and leave them at our death. Family life is a universal human experience. The family is among the oldest and the most fundamental of all human institutions. As we know that family is the miniature of the society， and therefore different family values are the reflections of distinguishing cultures in different countries. In order to get the better understanding of different family cultures between China and America， it is necessary to make a comparison between Chinese and American family values.

The family is the first institution of the five basic social institutions. It is responsible for developing the behavior of each person to be interactive individuals in society. It is responsible for supplying the basic needs of each person during their development. Unfortunately, the image of family has been deteriorated considerably. Instead of being a system support for people, it has become a double edged sword. Society is at fault for how bad the concept of family is today. It is just takes watching the news on television or to reading the newspaper to realize this. We can see headlines like "Father abused his daughter", “Woman is victim of domestic violence", "Child suicide due to

The use of family is important because the understanding of being a family and its understanding generally generates some ideas of protection

Society places many beliefs on people regarding proper roles for men and women. Gender roles are different for men and women around the world. For most people, these sets of rules surrounding the behaviors that men and women exhibit are so ingrained in their culture that they may go unnoticed unless made aware of it. It is also widely accepted that women face sexism when they go against the norm of what gender roles and society expect of them more often than men. While it is becoming more popular for women to be feminine, housemakers as well as breadwinners for their families, when men go against the social norms of their gender, they are more harshly reprimanded for doing so. Of course, gender roles and social expectations regarding them are more conservative in certain parts of the United States and the rest of the world. While in most urban areas women are regarded as nearly equal in the workforce and media,

Gender Theories Christabel Ekechukwu Walden University Indians are collective society that promotes social cohesion through interdependence. Gender roles in the Indian society are revealed from the household level. In India, the male power is exposed right from the nuclear family and femaleness is seen as inferior. In this society, the male gender while boys are taught how to exercise their authority over the female gender, which are required to submit.

“For Chinese people, the importance of family, the institution which has patterned the entire social matrix, can hardly be overestimated(Lin TY., Lin MC. )”. The family is a cherished aspect of Chinese culture, playing a role in almost every piece of a person 's life. Families are involved with everything from behaviors to relationships. It is common for children to cohabitate with their parent until they marry and in some cases even after marriage. In the Chinese culture, it is believed that the bigger the family the more prestigious the household. The traditional family structure, there are usually includes two or more generations living under one roof. Due to the influence of Confucianism in the Chinese culture, most parents have a male

Culture can have a major effect on ones behavior and in today’s society there are many different cultural roles that come in to play between boys and girls. There are two roles that stand out the most to me when it comes to the United States. The first one is that men are supposed to go to work and make the money while women are supposed to stay at home and take care of the children. The other one is women are judged by what they wear or what they do while men are normally praised for the same actions.

Cross Cultural Sex Roles It has been proven that the roles that men and women play in society are based upon many different social factors. A mere look at other cultures proves that sexual identity cannot solely be determined through a person's biological genes. If this were true, the characteristics defining men and women would be uniform, however a glance at the Sambia and Arapesh tribes of New Guinea reveal that the roles of men and women in separate cultures can be strikingly different.

As a person, who grows within this complex culture, but studies with foreign people and interested in social relations; I think family is not merely about blood relatives or living things. Instead, family can represent the people and things that get along and are based on each other as one loses its value in the absence of the other either it would be mentally or realistically. To illustrate, within the human societies two people can be called a family when one of them could not do anything without the other's help or performance. However, same thing applies to the non living things, such as pen and paper. The value of pen would be lost if there was no

“Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter”(Henry). My family has several different aspects that make us a “family”. Many times I have thought to myself that Family isn’t important, although I think about it a little harder and my mind completely changes. The overall theme of a family is different for every single person. Morals are just another example of how different families are. My family has shaped me into the person I am today. The impact on my family is a lasting aspect. Many people believe family is only blood and I can’t disagree with that statement more. Many different factors go into describing Family, and the theme, morals, and lasting impacts describe my family.

Society has long been based around an organizational unit. It is simply human nature to seek affection and friendship through community. But unlike the Neanderthal’s hunter-gatherer societies, the modern-day unit tends to be a family. Michael J. Fox once said, "Family is not an important thing. It's everything." Despite the fact that families are constantly evolving and expanding - from the rising rates of divorces and remarriage to a shift towards adoption and mixed race marriages to even the inclusion of friends in one’s ‘family’ - the notion of family is still fundamental in most people’s lives. While the traditional family may be on the decline, staying connected with your family, no matter how you choose to define it, has continued to been show to reap emotional, physical, and even financial benefits.

The family is an important part of our life, it is where we belong and where we get our

Secondarily, the family can affect a person on how will they view the world, and how would they live with it. There are certain things that we are doing just because we need to and our family tells us to. Some of it may become our permanent responsibilities in life. Me as an example, because of my family’s high expectations I became responsible for my studies. Having good grades was not just a thing that I just wanted; it was a responsibility for me because our family is expecting everyone to be successful. Another is the responsibility to have the best career; my family does not take enough as an answer because they always wanted the best or the highest. Living with an Asian family was really tough because it was like I’m always in a competition. However, in my perspective, I know that they are doing this just for my own good. In addition, there are some family traditions that were known in our family like celebrating family reunion annually. It became a part of us even it was not mandatory. There are also simple things that we do because of our family, and it became a tradition even though we are not aware of it. It was automatically built in our minds that we should live this way, and make it our lifestyle. Overall, one reason why the family is a big part of being is because they affect people greatly to their lifestyles

Over the last century, a progressively more inclusive idea of “family” has manifested; one that emphasises the significance of social and emotional connections over that of biological characteristics and genetics (Caulfield, 2002).In most societies, families are known as the quintessential institution. The function of the family involves creating a basis for human socialization, interaction and reproduction, both biologically and socially. Essentially It is a collective group of individuals united by blood, marriage, or adoption, is often described as nuclear (mother, father and children) or extended which included other relatives (Nam, 2004)