Gender socialization

1. Summarize Killing us Softly. (1-2 paragraphs)
     Advertising sell products, it also sells concepts of love sexuality romance, success and normalcy. It tells us who we are and who we should be. Most important these advertisements tells women how they should look and what ideal beauty is. We learn that woman must spend time, energy and money striving to achieve this idea and at times feel shame and guilty when they fail. It objectifies women leading them to experience gender violence, eating disorders based on the images portrayed about women to being thin, women seemed to be silenced in some ads as though that should be her role in society, women are also taught to be passive even at a young age.


2. Summarize a Call to Men. (1-2 paragraphs)
     
    A call to men is talking about how man are socialized. Tony Porter expressed his concern about how men are being brought up throught the expiriences in his life. He believes that alot of the crimes that female endure is tied with the way men are tought to be or act. In america from youth men are being tought they are not supposed to show their emotions because emotions is a sign of weekness. we are also tought that we are supposed to be providers and that women are there to be our wives and be used in the way that we want them to. we are also tought to be tough and never back down from nobody. These characteristics or the "male box'' is what is expected from men, and if deviated men are viewed ass weak or unworthy.

  
3. Explain how both video relate to our chapter on Socialization. (1-2 paragraphs)
     The videos relate to each other and the chapter because it lets us know how much power or control our society has on us. We are brought up with certain values that is instilled in us from a very early age on how we are expected to be or act depending on our gender or race. It tells how the media plays a big role on how we are raised because it tell us what the dominent society views as norm.


4. Find one picture that represents the ways that boys and girls are socialized? (E.G. toys, TV, products etc.)

Culture

If you where to ask me what culture was two weeks ago, I probably would have said it was something that defined an individual or the group he came from. I thought it could only tell us about the person they would be expected to become or morals they were expected to follow, but culture is way more than that. Culture is the past, present, and future. Culture is a tool for survival as it lets us know what has has worked in the past but at the same time it is unpredictable because it could always change due to the way the world around us does. If you look at our world now you will realize that out material and non material cultures have change from what the elder generation viewed as norm, but that is the beauty about culture it defines some of what we are but also keeps us guessing where we might end up in the future.


If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy