Research Social Construction of Gender Norms

Social Construction of Gender Norms is the portrayal of gender based stereotypes in everyday things like commercials,food,cars and so on. These stereotypes create the ideas that we define as sexist. For example,it's sexist to create commercial that portrays women as the main problem with poverty because it's saying that women are prone to making terrible mistakes in there time growing up like drugs and unsafe sex. Here's a better example.Your watching TV. The show your watching shows the women in it as individuals who are consistently playing damsel in distress or consistently needing the man's OK or dependent on him in order to get by. This scenario occurs a lot in fairy tails where the women is constantly being saved by a knight in shining armor. This idea shows that women are weak and need the help of a man to get on because they can't function on their own. https://www.bustle.com/articles/149098-5-fairy-tale-tropes-that-perpetuate-sexism :Source Honestly,I think the whole thing is stupid. Believe me,the last thing we need in this world is lack of inequality in gender. But you have some people down there who take it way to seriously. It's to the point these days where you really need to stop and ask yourself, "Is this really worth it". You've got women who think they are so sure they aren't helpless that they believe the best way to make a point is to run out in the army and get killed? I mean come on now,what's wrong with you ? I'm not saying women should be helpless and sit on the sidelines,but they need to know that there is a limit in trying to get a point across. This applies to men too,especially husbands,because any husband that sees their wife doing something crazy to show women aren't powerless,and supports it,is an idiot,and I'm not trying to offend anyone when I say this,but I need to say it as it is. As for women who believe they have something to prove,I don't care how much of an "Independent citizen" you think you are, getting yourself involved in a life or death situation just to prove you're not weak, isn't point worth trying to prove.I know the are those female soldiers and cops and do what they do because they want to help and they feel as if it's a passion of theirs,and that's good. There is nothing wrong with striving towards goal or a life long dream. But if do something stupid, get yourself involved in something that's going to affect more people than just you, all for proving an idea, you seriously need to check yourself. This problem doesn't really need a solution. To be quite honest it's not even a problem. Sexual discrimination is nothing but a theory created and supported by prideful people who want to make huge deal out of nothing. Sexism only qualifies as a problem when it prevents someone from getting a job,entering a public place or being able to feel comfortable around a certain group of people. And even then the people responsible for causing those kinds of problems can't necessarily be thrown in jail. They can be addressed and or warned about it. In business those people shouldn't be qualified to be in the employment position. But we can't stop them from coming up or thinking the way they think. If the "problem" of sexism affects a person that prevents them for a right everyone is entitled to,it should be regularly addressed to the proper authorities. There's no guarantee saying this will work,but it's all that can be done. Proving that one gender is superior enough to do something society says they can't won't help. Logical action needs to be taken.

Heifer International

Heifer International,located in Little Rock is an organization that specializes in the ending of poverty and hunger of rural areas in the world. Their mission is do to do this is by empowering families to turn hunger and poverty into hope and prosperity. Heifer also links communities with each other in order to create sustainable agriculture and commerce to areas with a long history of poverty.Soon,these families begin to gain sustainable incomes,and when this happens,it leads to opportunities that can advance their society.This includes ideas like building new schools, creating agricultural groups,forming community saving systems and forming small businesses. Heifer International was there to help with the clean up in Haiti after the recent hurricane encounter they had.They deployed 120 aid workers to help 6,500 project families,who were affected by the aftermath of hurricane Matthew's destruction. Heifer's immediate goal is to provide food and water treatment tablets for those project families that affected by the storm. Heifer shares partnerships with many businesses,some very common to most people,like Danone yogurt,Starbucks,The MasterCard Foundation,W.K. Kellogg foundation and Walmart. Like Heifer,these partners are also helping create an impact to end global poverty and hunger.For example,Star Bucks,for 40 years,has been dedicated to helping coffee farmers and their families.Heifer's international collaboration with Starbucks began in 2009. When Starbucks CEO,Howard Schultz,visited smallholder coffee farmers in Rwanda. Hearing the farmers heartfelt requests for dairy cows to provide them milk,better nutrition and better income to help provide for their families,Schultz and other Starbucks workers rallied together collaborated ways they could help to provide the farmers with the cows they so desperately needed. By 2014,Heifer was awarded with a Starbucks Foundation grant of $750,000. This money was going to be used to help fund the Mbozi Farmer Live hood improvement Project in Tanzania. This project was established to help provide dairy cows and training to improve live hoods in East Africa. Overall, Heifer International is an engaged and committed organization that feels should be very entitled to ending poverty and helping people in need. This makes me think if I should start my own fundraiser. The idea of helping Haiti does cross my mind. When I was in elementary school,the school had us support a fundraiser to help support Haiti after the earthquake they were in a few years ago. They had a bottle,like the water bottles they have in offices,and we would fill them with pennies that they would use to help clean up.We could do something similar to this,but in a fun and creative way.Then, we can use this money to start a partnership with a school there, help build a school there or even go to the country ourselves and help them with our resources. Haiti goes through so much and it's a problem that can easily be fixed,if there were just more people in the world who cared,these people could be helped.

Research Modern Social Impact Source

Plastic surgery is defined as a biological based procedure involving the alteration and reforming of particular parts of the body. The idea behind the surgery was to create a way to help those who are victims of loss limbs or need of change on certain parts of the bodies that didn't operate like they should due to genetic disease or birth defect. These days most people do it to change their appearances just by pure lust or envy off of others who they believe "look better". TV models or the ones in magazines are idols for those who feel visibly inefficient because they compare their appearances to them and they want to become just like them. Physiologists say that it can also be a Psychological idea that occurs after a person first gets plastic surgery. The idea that they should take advantage of this new technology to make themselves look better. Surgeons say that there was an 44.9% increase in procedures as well as Botox,breast surgery and Liposuction between 2003 and 2004. To know that something like this can take control of people in this manner is disturbing and in some way disrespectful to yourself. Consistent altering like this is like saying that you were born wrong or you created properly and that it take worldly sources to to correct those mistakes. All things considered These kinds of alterations are bad for your body overall and can lead to your body suffering sometimes fatal disease. I think the cause for these problems are models and modeling agencies who falsely present themselves on billboards and TV and such. Many of these agencies use computer enhancing technology to change the appearances of their models so they look even more attractive in those pictures. Not many people know this and think it's actually possible to 100% copy these looks and believe plastic surgery is the answer. This Idea impacts many young people as they are mostly impressionable and will belive mostly anything. Awareness programs and more curriculum geared towards this problem are the answer to stopping all of this. Once these truths about this idea reaches the young people of this generation, the lies of this subject will be that much closer to being vanquished.

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If the world were a 100 people....

Earlier on I was asked to construct a If the world were a 100 people project. A school Project that was supposed to categorize the world population by how the majority was privileged through narrowing the entire population to 100 people. I created a survey and a video presenting my idea of this based on the statistics I collected through my survey.  Three topics my survey covered that I thought were most important were gender,religion and parental status. I found these topics interesting because I feel they play a huge role for how people are privileged and how some people grow into the lifestyles they have. Gender affects people like this because gender nowadays affects crucial things like how you get employed or how people view you. And while sometimes it is true like with gender roles,it gets taken to an extreme that makes like extremely hard for anyone that gender. Religion has an even more fatal affect. In some countries,Religion determines whether someone lives or dies. In america,Islam is the top 3 hated religion because of it's frequent relation with terrorism. With this in mind,Muslims all over are persecuted. Parental status is also a factor because the parents affect the children. The status of the parents relationship affect the child or the person because the situation can determine how what the kid has access to. For example,if a kid only has one parent,then they don't have access to much because one parent won't be able to provide for their child as well as two parents.
The procedures to receive this data wasn't easy. First,a survey was required to be made along with having 100 participants taken. The link had to be posted on schoology,Facebook,and Instagram. All forms of available social media was used. I would frequently checked the results of my survey and there was a some shock. For one thing,There was a surprising  amount of people who have been bullied in their lives. I was also shocked to see the amount of people who haven't considered drugs. The percentage difference was shockingly high, with 60.7% saying no but 39.3% yes. Overall this project is relevant to this society because it takes a portion of the worlds generic people and reveals how they are privileged compared to others. This is important to know because it informs the classroom community the average of things people are privileged for depending on gender,race,age and etc.
A project that can be used to create a similar purpose in Patricia McCormick's Sold is to research the culture in Lakshmi's original home, and divide the natives into categories from richest to poorest

China's great gender crisis

Religious and Cultural roles in  gender  are  the different  rules and ideas practiced by a certain race  that affect the gender of race. These ideas are usual based on the religious beliefs of that race or the cultural practices they have. For example, in some countries,its more desired to give birth to males than females because the males are needed to go to war and can take on the harder kinds of labor to help support the family.
In China, the situation there is that boys are more desired than girls because of the population. China is home to a lot of people,so it led to the Chinese having to kill children and creating rules like the 1 child policy,to try and minimize the amount. Soon the law was outlawed,so as a new solution to keep the population at bay,they tried to have boy children instead of girls because,if there were more males it wouldn't led to not as many children. No children meant not a lot of population increase. The problem with this idea is that not many of the women in the country are OK with this decision. Because of this new culture,women as are looked down on,mostly at birth. There is also fear that this will lead to sexual violence,sociable instability,and all around crime. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/02/chinas-great-gender-crisis
This makes me feel concerned for the people of China because the situation sounds terrible down there. Especially for the women. This concerning is a global issue because this law can successfully reshape the mindset of men for Chinese women permanently. This could lead to a hatred of men  throughout China,and since China supplies most countries with the means of most of their materials,including for the U.S.,it is important as a unit the work together.As unrealistic as it sounds,any form of conflict can lead to disaster,
This problem can be fixed if people are aware of it's existence. Chinese women need to be more tolerant with the idea of more men then women,given the situation,also.As for the men,security precautions and night police of some sort should be established or better maintained to keep them in check.

World Wide gender Inequality

Gender inequality mostly is something that takes place in jobs. Women on average earn less than men in virtually every single occupation. In 2015, female full time workers mad only 79 cent for every dollar men made each hour.
Knowing this makes me feel guilty because that means that I could be making more than my spouse in a couple of years and that doesn't feel very fair . I would like to raise awareness towards the problem in my community.
This could be an issue because of the past idea that men are more dominate than women. The jobs that put women in these positions are jobs that are "a man's job",and the idea that women should stay in there place at home with the kids or cleaning the house created this problem
 This problem can be solved by spreading awareness or going to the places that mostly cause this problem and have rallies or protests to let the public know what is going on;to make a point.

About me...

Hi,my name is Steven Spencer or Steve Bob.  I go to school and am a tech enthusiast. I enjoy building stuff,being creative I any way I can. On my free time I like to do this or play video games,watch T.V or go for walks. I am so glad that was finally able to do something like this ( no thanks to my school). I hope you enjoy my posts.