The Initial Person I Interviewed Was My Girlfriend (Sophia).

The person that I interviewed is a 65 year old student, she is Mexican and she just finished third grade. She has 5 children and seven grandchildren. She worked in a hospital as janitor for 20 years. She learned how to speak some basics of the language English that she needed so that she can communicate at her job. She decided to enroll in school to learn English because she wanted to understand her grandchildren when she takes care them and help them with their homework. She had to quit school several times because she had to take care her grandchildren and sometimes because she felt too old to be at a school. Last time she enrolled in a school was last year and since that time she has been my student.

I had the privilege of interviewing a 60 year old gentlemen who I will identify as Mr. E to protect his privacy for this assignment. The goal of my interview was to gain insight on aging from an older adult. I interviewed Mr. E in his home on a weekday evening. He expressed appreciation and was surprised that he was the focus of an interview in which his life story and thoughts would be recorded.

In the article from the 2016 book, Rereading AMERICA: Cultural Context For Critical Thinking And Writing by Aaron H. Devor titled “Becoming Members of Society,” Devor illustrates what it means to become a member of society based off learning their gender identity. Based on attributes that are identified with a type of gender offers insight into the social meaning of gender. Societies base gender off on characteristics identified with “masculinity” or “femininity” instead of sex characteristics. The general idea of the social meaning of gender is that men are the dominant ones, while women should be delicate and dependent on a man. The way society bases a gender is off of a body’s demeanor or tone of voice, which creates a false illusion to

For my interview project I interviewed a counselor named Cristina Kleinfelter who works at Pottsgrove Middle School with 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Her and a colleague split 400 students in the school and meet with each one of their 200 assigned students when needed. She sees students when she goes to the classroom to teach social skills, and help with college. They both have a mixed population of students they work with whether it be students from broken homes, good homes, etc. She has her Master’s Degree in Counseling and is certified in school counseling, she has been in this field for 14 years so far. She works with the 8th graders the most, with their high school schedules, she explains to them how to pick classes and how to apply to

While participating in the Bem Sex Role Inventory evaluation, I received a low score for masculinity, 84, and a high score for femininity, 128. I am not extremely surprised by these results because I would also consider myself to be a more feminine individual rather than masculine, androgynous, or indifferent. I would categorize myself to have more stereotypical feminine traits due to the social conditioning I've received throughout my life and what society has deemed to be “feminine” and “masculine.” However, I do think that these scores do effect the way that I, and people in general, do perceive themselves. By having significant feminine and masculine traits, I think that people do tend to act differently because they think that that is

seemed to knock down gender roles. Throughout my interview with her, a major theme that

The person I interviewed for this project was a female named Barb who is 65 years old. This woman is about 6’0 in height and has a slender body type. Also, she has thick curly brown hair and wears glasses. Barb comes from a fully German background because both of her parents originally immigrated to the United States from Germany. Barb has 4 children which consist of two sons and two daughters. Also, Barb has 15 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. Barb is currently married and she has been married to her husband for 49 years. Furthermore, Barb currently resides at her home in Minnesota with her husband.

Her family believes, and she was raised to believe, that gender is based on your anatomy. If you have a uterus and vagina, then you are automatically a female and will act as such. The same logic is applied for having a penis and thus being

In their article, Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet describe some of the variances between a boy and a girl and how they are treated which is essentially the idea of being “gendered” is all about. Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet make some incredibly well supported arguments to illustrate that our gender is a very important trait and it’s development is a lifelong process. Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet talk about how adults act towards boys and girls in which they

One of the issues that exist in our society are gender stereotypes, which are crude and unacceptable. We should not be led by gender-based expectations that defined how a man and woman should dress, act, speak, and behave. Everyone should be entitled to who they want to become and how they want to present themselves to the world. Although times are changing in our society, there are some people who still believe in their traditional customs of what a man and woman gender roles should be. It would be frustrating that someone tells me that I can’t be a doctor or pilot because I’m a woman and that my purpose in life is to be a housewife.

Gender and the ways gender is portrayed in society varies from culture to culture. Gender roles have changed drastically, especially during the 20th century and continue to evolve to this day. For years now there have been preconceived notions about genders and the roles each one should play in society, home, workplace, etc. Most times gender roles are associated with stereotypes and previous gender roles. Gender role plays different parts in religion, culture, society, time periods, countries, etc. Women rights and power varies in time and location and it is very interesting to look at the events, cultures, and customs that were taking place in that particular time period to get a better idea of the gender role concept.

There are some confusions about these conflicting situations. Firstly, it’s different when men and women define and evaluate gender identities and behaviors. Secondly, men and women will exhibit different personal characteristics in terms of various social status, occupations, personal ideologies, gender superiorities, etc. Thirdly, the social ideologies manifested by outside world and the subjective ideologies formed by people themselves have complicated differences as well, in such a social environment, various gender ideologies mutually interacted and linked, therefore, it'll be very hard to explain or even draw an accurate conclusion for these confusions by relatively theoretical researching and analysis.

In speech 1318 we took a Bem Sex Role Inventory test that allowed us to be able to view how feminine or masculine we were. Categorized by choosing the terms that best fit according to the scale provided. On day one I scored nearly masculine. I was not surprised much because I have always been an independent, self-reliant individual. Although I did feel that I could have scored a bit more on the masculine Androgyny scale, I can proudly say that I have always been very enthused about being able to do anything that I set my mind to. I had a lot to do on day one from working eight-plus hours, going home and having to do housework due to hurricane Harvey, and then going to school. I can see why I scored the nearly masculine with having diverse

From the list I made about the characteristics of genders, what surprised me while, writing out the list the most was that I could think of more characteristic of the male but not from my own gender-woman. Stereotypes continue because everyone judge on each other whether it’s their personality traits, domestic behaviors, occupations or physical appearance. Not only they judge on each other, but stereotypes are all around us. Regardless of these stereotypes, there are ways to challenge these types of stereotypes to help everybody whether it’s their gender or any type of gender identity to help them feel wanted into the society and equal like everybody else from our society. Some of the things that could help these people are to speak up with

For this ethnographic paper, I have chosen to interview three female friends currently at college in different countries. I intentionally chose these three girls because they completely fit in the category that many societies have about feminism. The three girls are from France, United States, and Angola. My idea was to have ideas about gender coming from not only different countries, but different continents. Based on what I read in the textbook, and what we have discussed in class, gender is the idea that different societies create about feminism and masculinity based on the performance from both sexes. The problem of gender inequality is not recent, but something that many societies have been trying to fix for a long time. As soon I asked about their experience with gender, they all answered the same thing. The three girls answered what I was really expecting, that if you are a boy you do things like play sports, work out every week, and so on. This answer led me to the conclusion that stereotypes about gender performance are popular among almost every societies. I asked this question as way to get a little background about gender in different countries, but I have noticed that their ideas were very similar. Nowadays, in college environment there are a lot of stereotypes and discrimination against female based on the role that they play in society, and I decided to analyze it closely in order to see how it can affect female’s performance. Stereotypes about female’s role