Interview Summary

Due to primary socialisation, the children in the family would then be socialised into their gender roles so then when their time comes to marry and have children, this family structure will continue: the male has the instrumental role and the woman has the expressive role. To contradict with this view from Parsons’, the feminist theory would challenge this view when considering the inequality which comes of this. One argument made by feminists is to do with the oppression which women have dealt with for many years due to their somewhat, ascribed role of being inferior to men, up until around the 1960’s.

In the national General Social Survey (GSS), more than one-third of the public agree with this statement: “It is much better for everyone involved if the man is the achiever outside the home and the woman takes care of the home and family.” Thus, the cultural belief of Woman’s Rights is (and is still) being used today. Though with it’s positive actions also comes with its strained bias and social issues. Women are often treated by men as “pure” and should be “protected”

Purpose: The purpose of this interview is to gain a deeper understanding on your experiences with education, both during your childhood and adult life. Specifically, I am interested in how your familial income has impacted your education success, your opinion on the varying levels of Illinois education funding, and your knowledge on how the U.S. government regulates and impacts education throughout the nation. This interview should be no longer than 40 minutes. Throughout the course of this interview I will be recording you and taking notes for the purpose of my sociology class; however, your privacy will be respected. All of the information you share with me will be kept private between myself and my teacher. In addition, your name will not be included in this transcript and my interview summary.

In beginning of a her career she is a licensed physical therapist in ROHC and provided physical therapy treatment and her goal is to prevent work related musculoskeletal injuries. She is experienced over 15 years in treating orthopedic injuries caused by occupation. As a Pilates instructor she used to train rehabilitation professionals. She is expert in using neck and back stabilizing techniques on patients and ergonomic clients. She is now Director of Physical Therapy department at Nova Pain and Rehabilitation. Her quest in field of ergonomics made her to establish an ergonomic evaluating office Ergo-RX and provides custom furnishings to the clients. As an ergonomist and physical therapist, Jeannie incorporates her physical therapy treatment and prevention of injuries to the clients and patients she is serving

I interviewed a psychologist for my second field research. Sharon Epel has been a licensed psychotherapist for 12 years and has been a family and marriage counsellor in her own private practice. She has done extensive work with schools and has been a therapist to a variety of temperaments and personalities. I wanted to understand how she helps people, and what she notices about them in her sessions. I tried to create an informative interview that would benefit me by giving me a look into how people’s brains influence their emotions. I hoped that this interview would give me a solid understanding of introverts and extraverts and their differences.

However, in this process there are other things that come into place which tend to affect people at both side. On the one hand, many women find themselves trying to balance between having a career and having a family, and in many cases, women find themselves with the obligation of sacrificing their own personal goal (having a family or spending time with their love one) and happiness in order to prove that as men, women also can do it all. Women have been fighting to eliminate the gap and gender discrimination; although, they have make a great progress of closing or over-passing the gap in some educational and professional field, they are still a long way to go. On the other hand, This process has not been easy for men, not only the gap on gender is closing, but also men are founding themselves in a situation that did not exist 50 or 60 years ago, forcing to share the responsibility at home to the point that “men are being judged as fathers now in a way that I think they never have been before” (Dorment, 2015, p.

The job that most women are pressured to have is motherhood. Only recently has it became socially acceptable for husbands to stay home and take care of the children. Due to the fact that women were not allowed to participate in the affairs of men like work, school, and politics, they have been pigeonholed into the stay at home category. In fact, according to Beauvoir “a man would feel that he was lowering himself by helping with tasks hitherto assigned to women” (Beauvoir). Contemporary Women’s Issues Database is active in educating the world on gender inequality. They believe that, “gender feminists believe that the husband-wife relationship is inherently oppressive to women and that the traditional family propagates this ‘oppression’… gender feminists envision a brave new world in which reproduction is socially-constructed, rather than biologically-determined” (Contemporary Women’s Issues Database). Women have broken that hold in the last five years and are pushing forward. There are still gains that need to be made, but the world is in that

During interview with Hildreth (In-Person Interview, 2015) he notes that his vocational/ rehabilitation program works with between 15-20% of the clients of North West Ohio Psychiatric Hospital. Hildreth (2015) notes that some of his clients work in the vocational program for a shorter time such as a month, while others have been in the program for over a decade (i.e. forensic clients who are NGRI Not Guilty for Reason of Insanity). The first step for entering this program is a referral from a treatment team on one of the psychiatric units when deemed appropriate, and as a good candidate of the program.

“Neither is it uncommon to see a man able to shed tears, or a woman who demonstrates typically masculine traits of character, like assertiveness. It is perfectly fine if each member of a couple is comfortable with such a distribution of roles, temporary or permanent. However, the shift in gender roles especially in the United States is becoming more than a voluntary redistribution of tasks, but rather a massive occurrence, which sociologists are researching why.” stated by sociologist Michael Kimmel. Many women view themselves as controlling the man in a relationship in urban society. Some of the reasons why this is happening may come from education in particular, in the attitude male and female students have towards it. Females are usually more conscientious about studying, engage in school activities vigorously, and are more academic performance, among males, where they are considered more lazy. Males also believe that academic disengagement is considered to be more masculine. High academic performance and good grades are very important but those all lead to employment. Many young men do not think about this and don't realize that there is a high demand for graduates with high levels of knowledge. “The economy shifting to a service economy, a knowledge-based economy, a words-based economy rather than an action-based economy has certainly been to the detriment of that traditional

Over time woman have been demoralized by men in standards of society. Woman are held back from certain things that men are allowed to participate in. Tradition has always been for women to follow in the footsteps of men. Educationally and economically woman are held back. Equality is a word with an ever-changing definition. Society plays a major role in the submission and degradation of women. The demoralization of women was so severe they believed the only capabilities they had were making babies and playing home maker. Even though that was a woman’s only worth in society, there were a few brave souls who set out to change that. Gender norms set expectations for behaviors, but penalized those that do not conform to those norms (Gender

ACARA CEO Robert Randall poses questions to educators about HPE, “What opportunities does it create to enhance learning in this area? What is possible? How could the new HPE curriculum make a real and positive difference to current teacher practice and consequently to student learning?” (Randall, 2015). A certain naïve dogma has existed around HPE (Hunter, Tinning, & McCuaig, 2005). Randall may be referring to this with his questions. Addressing the subtext of these questions along with the questions themselves, will deliver an authentic HPE experience (DinanThompson, 2009).

Society for a long time has made the women in its second best. In the past, maybe even today, women were told that they should marry successful men, have children, and be good housewives. Women are told to be “seen and not heard,” as if they were just an ornament to be on display. Sometimes in marriages, women are no more than property, they are expected to assume the identity of being just a wife. For some women, this destiny is known and understood, therefore these women use their womanhood to progress themselves into better suited situations, but for many others this way of life can be a challenge when there is a long for a different type of life outside of their constraints of marriage. Some women want to be free to

A semi-structured interview with open-ended question was used to capture informants’ perceptions as well as their experiences and feelings (Nehlin, Nyberg, and Oster, 2015). Some of the open-ended questions were given for example, “(when on drugs) I could run my daily life. I was accepted, I felt normal” (Nehlin, Nyberg, and Oster, 2015). The informants’ were asked during the interview to narrate their own story, in this regard; promoting questions were used to explore the informants’ perceptions, experiences, and feelings more in depth. An interview guide was developed to ensure that the areas of interest be covered in all interviews. The interview guide was piloted on two persons, which led to minor adjustments. The included questions were related to the areas of interest. The interviews were conducted on a subject-by-subject basis, and the areas of exploration were graphically drawn on a sheet of paper (Nehlin, Nyberg, and Oster, 2015). With

Marion: Yes. We see a lot of different things from different clients. Just like Amazon. Amazon wants to get into the messenger business as well. But we’ll see what happens. That would be huge for them. Might knock off some of the smaller ones, but…

In Sociology, gender roles are a big part of everyday discussion. With that comes the controversy with gender inequality. The differences of what it really means to be an equal gender nation has been around for years, but it has been becoming more and more popular with politics and media recently. Females are portrayed as inferior to males when they should be treated as equals in today’s society. We have come a long way since the Women’s Rights Movement in the 1800s, but there is still work to be done. To better understand gender inequality, it is important to understand the root where it came from, specific manifestations dealt with gender inequality, and solutions on how to make gender inequality a term of the past.