Category: Sociology
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Women in Politics
There is no doubt the number of women in politics is often fewer than men in any country; however, the number is getting better. The US is still lagging when it comes to women in politics. So are all the gender equality laws and regulations working? Miki Kittilson’s article “Gender and Political Behavior” fully discusses…
Lylyna Heng
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Women and Feminities
Although women have more freedom to resist the gender binary in some ways, the expectations for men and women are different and unequal. Women have more freedom than men to enjoy masculine and feminine coded parts of life. Even so, doing feminity is relatively compulsory, where women have to assume gender performances that harm them…
Lylyna Heng
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Sexuality
In the previous article, we go over the shift from Puritan views to Victorian-era views of men and women to the current time. Sexual scripts continue to base on beliefs that for men/male-identified individual sex is for orgasm and physical pleasure; and for women/female-identified individual sex is for love and the pleasure that comes with emotional…
Lylyna Heng
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Inequalities: Men and Masculinities
Men and women are both forced by society to do gender. It is because gender binary is hierarchical. It places men above women and values representation of masculinity above feminity. As a result, it narrows the range of life experiences that seem acceptable and right. Women are routinely positioned as helpers and caretakers, while men…
Lylyna Heng
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Historical Analysis of Asian Americans
Racial identity – Development of Biracial Models In 1990, two scholars, Carlos Poston and Maria Root were the first to publish models for the development of healthy biracial identity. Past racial identity models were centered on a person having one race they can identify with. These psychologists challenged that belief and presented models that enable…
Lylyna Heng
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Change: Gender Revolution?
The change of venue The introduction of private property and patriarchy consistently emerge together when societies transition from foraging to settled agrarian societies that cultivate crops. In other words, the revolution from hunting and moving to settle down with grocery stores in the neighborhood. Let’s learn from Hunter-Gatherer to Farmer below. Agrarian societies domesticated crops…
Lylyna Heng
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Intersections and Gendered Language
Intersectionality – a term coined by Kimberelé Crenshaw in 1989 – “describes the ways which oppressive institutions (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, classism, etc.) are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from one another” (taken from Geek Feminism Wiki). More on intersectionality by NCCJ. What is intersectionality? Kimberlé Crenshaw: What is Intersectionality? Intersectionality is…
Lylyna Heng
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Gender Institution
When it comes to judging others, gender comes first or individual comes first, have you noticed it? So what is gender? Gender is a set of ideas and something one does when interacting with other people, but it is also an organizing principle that permeates our social instiutions. Even though we are not always aware…
Lylyna Heng
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Performances – How We Do Gender
“Performances” discussed by Wade and Marx in chapter 4 as the unpacks socialization and explains how we perform the expectations of that socialization. Before we head into that we must first discuss socialization itself. Socialization is the process by which society’s values and norms, including those pertaining to gender, are taught and learned. Gender socialization…
Lylyna Heng
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