Popularity of Social Elements between Male and Female

Gender derives its formative meaning from culture and societal values, it is not a universal entity as there are various cultures, societal values, beliefs, and preferred ways of organizing collective life across the globe and even within a single culture the meaning of gender varies over time. Chapters three and four of Gendered Lives by Julia T. Wood helps to insightfully look at those views, and rhetorical movements (women and men’s movements) that have overtime influenced, defined and given various meanings to gender (masculinity and femininity).

Woman’s sustained involvement in ‘male’ team sports has only occurred relatively recently. Woman’s participation in sport has been blunted by

Popularity is one of the most commonly studied peer interaction phenomenon. Initially these studies assigned participants to one of the following standard sociometric categories: popular, rejected, neglected, average, and controversial. These studies faded away for two main reasons. The first is that this model neglected to take the school structure into consideration when studying popularity. It ignored that due to the transition between classes starting in middle school students no longer have a small and stable social component that social interactions and sociometric status could be based on. The second is that popularity depends on the adolescents’ perception of popularity rather than how well liked an adolescent is. Popularity heavily depends on the

I observed the basketball championship game in McCarthy center and, while sporting events are mostly seen as a male-dominated activity, I saw more girls in the audience than boys. I, myself, got up at six in the morning to wait in line to get a spot to watch the game. This breaks the stereotype that girls are uninterested in sports. However, after the devastating loss, most people went back to their gendered stereotypes. I, along with the girls around me, were crying at the heartbreaking finale, while some boys in CM took to breaking things in the halls. This alines with the gender stereotypes that women are more emotional and men are more violent. While I do believe that we, as a society, are moving away from suffocating gendered stereotypes, there are some that we still preform subconsciously. The younger generations are moving forward with making gender non-conformity the new normal, however, we are far from ending the fight to break gendered

This is seen in beauty pageants as we see race and gender become key factors. Only women are able to participate in beauty pageants and not men because they aren’t permitted to participate. Also we see that women have to meet a certain percentage of Asian heritage in order to participate in the event as well. This seclusion discourages Asian males to break out of as well as set guidelines on what they are able to do. Despite being secluded in events like beauty pageants, men also have other interests that women don’t usually participate in.

Only giving women 5% of television coverage opposed to men receiving 92%. Sports can trivialize women symbolically. For example, College sport teams may name the male team tigers and the women's team kittens. (Eitzen &Baca Zinn, 1989). This can coincide with the males being considered strong and the women being sexual. Roles were also mentioned as "society's prescriptions for those of their gender status because the norms are expectations get built into their senses worth and identity as a certain kind of human being and because they believe that their society's ways are the natural way." (Lorber,1992, p.42).

There are many social agents that cause the construction of gender roles. Parents and family are important socialization agents in the gender role development of children. They have different values and attitudes regarding male

What does being “popular” mean exactly, well if you look up the word popularity “the state or condition of being liked, admired, or supported by many people” will be what comes up. How does someone become popular is a more important question. Most people become popular by going over the top of others, by putting themselves above others and thinking that they are more important than them. Which to me isn’t true popularity, if I had to choose I wouldn’t use the word popular because it’s a word that popular people like to use, but to me to be popular is to be nice to everyone and work to where you are and not have to hurt others to make the way to the top. There is people who are popular by pushing over others and there are people who are popular because they work hard for what they have.

The short answer is nobody knows. For many years researchers have looked at multiple biological, psychological and social causes; none provide consistent or convincing explanations. The best scientific answer at the moment is that gender identity development is multi-determined, meaning there are many factors involved.

Male’s biological advantages empower him to be fully aware of his individuality and existence as an entirety. He gradually explores and discovers more and more methods to master his forces. His physical development is relatively simple and regular. “At around fifteen or sixteen years old, spermatogenesis begins and continues until old age; hormone production occurs at the same

Moreover, a study by Eastin (2006) showed that when male and female players are playing as a male character, low levels of aggression were generated towards female agents. Although this doesn 't show any signs of misogyny, it may still be sexism to some people. The same low levels of aggression were showed when the players played against female opponents controlled by both computer and human. This may be seen as benevolent sexism (Gick and Fiske, 1996) – some people in the modern society are influenced to think that women are physically incapable thus they do not need to be taken seriously (causing player to be less aggressive).

Of the recent discussions, much of this has been influenced or at least based around Freud's theory of psychoanalysis and the his account of sexual development that follows from it. In very simplistic terms his account places masculine

Gender roles play a huge part in society. Gender plays a role in shaping an individuals identify and beliefs. It also helps identify what is masculine and what is feminine. Certain tasks, duties, and jobs are classified by gender. However, gender appropriate behavior should not be enforced in our society for numerous reasons and can be seen on an individual level and be demonstrated by social learning theory and sex segregation.

In this century, people are more interested in popularity, but there are also certain people who still developed their ability in order to support their social life and career. There is no one in this world does not want to be popular. What makes people popular? Is it scandal or ability? Mostly, people would like to be known with good reputation, which is why we always try to make a good impression. Most of people nowadays are more focusing in their popularity rather than try to developing their ability. We can say that people from this era are craving for popularity. Why does it can happen? What makes people popular?

My focus however, is on single player console games, where women make up a very small minority at around 20% of players across all platforms (ESA). Console games have many different genres but there are only five ways to play and five respective players, according to Educational Technology Research and Development Study found in Game Work by Ken McAllister. These categories are: explorative, active / aggressive, social, creative, and strategic, it was found that there is a strong divide between men and women and their ability in the various types of gameplay (McAllister 16). This study of middle and high school boys and girls found that over 50% of boys proved to be active and aggressive players, while less than 10% of girls showed strength in the active games; all of the boys showed a strong ability to play strategically while less than 5% of girls were able to problem solve in the game (McAllister 18). Girls in the study found their strengths to be explorative and creative games with over half of female participants showing strength in each area, while the boys typically saw these genres as not challenging enough, and quickly gave up (McAllister 20). Economically it would make sense to introduce more games that women excel at to bring in a large demographic and increase market share; despite this the industry is tailored to the male consumer as 75% of games released in the past 10 years were targeted towards men and featured violent and