Psychobiological Differences

According to lecture, the individual level of analysis has to do with what is within a person’s gender, whether it is biological or psychological.

“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of a women begins when the doctor says, ‘It's a girl!’” Women are forced to conform to a set place in society, and the pressure they feel to conform starts when they are born.

Stereotypes are all around us. They surround different racial groups, countries, people, and genders to name a few. Although many of them are false, some do have some truth to them. John Gray addressed gender stereotypes in his book, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. One particular quote states that, “A man’s sense of self is defined by his ability to achieve results...A woman’s sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships”. John Gray’s quote is valid in the way that men and women often get their sense of self through different stimuli due to their upbringing and the gender cues in society.

Throughout women’s life, they are faced with many stereotypes and situations which dictate how they act and how people see them. A problem with this is that, by thinking that women follow certain stereotypes, society starts to believe that women will only act a certain way, and they don expect them to do masculine things such as being a police officer or

This course has helped me understand gender in a much broader perspective as I knew before. People should not be judged according to their gender attributes or gender norms, even though the females are usually taken as the tender and soft ones as compared to male. This should not be taken as a weakness or what males can do and what females can’t

Living in 21st century United States, being a much more liberal and inclusive environment than prior decades, gender “roles” and their normalities are being severely questioned and challenged. Americans have defined and established gender stereotypes that have become a critical part of how we look at gender roles and create biases about each gender. Stereotypes assume people who 'belong ' to a group will appear, behave, look, speak or sound like others from that group. The values, norms, practices, behaviors and traditions associated with the group are shared by all members of the group. For example, gay men are promiscuous, women are maternal and men don 't show emotions. Stereotypes are often dismissive, negative, and they are sometimes

Gender stereotypes are mostly taken for granted at a young age: girls are told to play with dolls and boys are told to play with trucks. But as children grow older they find themselves in a world where the reality of gender roles and stereotypes aren’t acknowledged, and the illusion of gender neutrality is commended. If gender roles are becoming more neutral, then it would follow that gender role stereotypes are also becoming more lax. However, in actuality this is not true.

As a biological female, in more ways than not, I tend to follow the expected roles of a traditional women. Associated with the role of a female are certain personality traits, behaviors, appearances, and occupations. Females are seens as gentle, emotional, nurturing, soft-spoken, cooperative, and dependent. Females are expected to be “pretty” by using makeup, skincare, and haircare products. Longer hair is seen as feminine, as well as, the color pink. In addition, women are expected to pursue careers as teachers, nurses, social workers, and secretaries because these careers required traits and characteristics which are associated with “female.” I view myself as a gentle person, but I am also a strong and relentless soccer and rugby player.

Gender roles, ways people are expected to conduct themselves, are based on norms created over time by society. They have been portrayed countless ways and recently may have started to change for the better. However, roles assigned to females and the idea known as “gender stereotypes” can be compared and found to be just as much similar as they are different. Maybe even more.

When I was in the kindergarten, my parents were busy with work and they seldom policed my gender. Peer and friends play a more influential role in the field. There was a time when my sister painted her nails, she also painted my nails, too. When I went to the kindergarten, other children were unwilling to play with me. The teacher also told me to wash away the nail polish. I came to understand that boys cannot paint nails because it weakens men’s masculinity. When we moved to a new apartment, my parent painted the wall in my room blue and the curtain was grey. When I was in primary school, I was weak and some bad boys often bullied me. When I was bullied, I cried and reported my sadness to my father. However, my father said boys should not cry but

The biological understanding of race in the United States stems from the biology of each person. It was believed that people from different places had different genetics and genes I their body, accounting for different traits in each people. These people could be grouped together by their biological traits because their similarities in genes would make them look alike. People wanted to believe that there actually are true biological differences between people. Race in the past and present (somewhat) has been categorized based on continental origin, skin color, nose structures, hair type, and even differences in blood. To define a person’s race, someone could ask questions like: “what type of hair do they have, curly or straight? Is their skin

In a place called Earth, there are many types of genders. As we hear the word “gender”, males and females are typically the words that pop up in our head. With that being said, there are social norms of how males and females should be raised in a specific way. The males are raised to be aggressive and physically fit. While females are passive and submissive. As the stereotypes of gender continues to grow, it slowly damages the people that do not fit in society's point of view. With that discouragement constantly following us everywhere, many of us find ways to fit in society’s expectations. In this case, being born as a male and not fitting or reinforcing in the stereotype has changed me dramatically. The pressure of not fitting in or reinforcing made me change my physical look, dressing semi-formal, challenging the stereotype of how males should be aggressive and challenging the stereotype of having emotions.

One of the hardest tasks required by parents is raising children. It takes a lot of patience, attention, and precision to do so. However, there is a part where most of the parents are not aware of, and unconsciously harm their children. That is, using gender stereotypes whether through teaching or through playing with them. Not only parents do so, but teachers and certain television channels as well. Based on A Dictionary of Sociology, gender stereotypes are “one-sided and exaggerated images of men and women which are deployed repeatedly in everyday life” (Scott & Marshall, 2009). Although educating children about gender roles and their differences is important for them to distinguish between the two genders, and know how to treat each; gender stereotypes should not be taught to children neither through television nor through education and parenting. This is because, these stereotypes have the potential to create a wrong image in the children’s mind, cause gender-based violence, and develop a sense of worthlessness and lack of self-confidence when not conforming to those gender stereotypes.

Although chronotype has shown to impact psychological variables, such as RPE, during exercise at extreme ends of the day, little research has shown that chronotype has a relationship with physiological variables during physical activity. Other research studies have shown significant differences in physiological measurements during exercise at opposite ends of the day. Hill (2013) researched men participating in exhaustive severe-intensity cycle ergometer tests in the morning and evening to observe the physiological differences. Significant changes were found in multiple variables between morning and evening exercise. Evening testing saw a 20% increase in time to exhaustion as well as a 4% increase in maximal oxygen

As the task criteria requires a cross-generational element of study, I decided to research whether the effect of gender on subject