Sociology Assignment | Gender Socialization
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Sociology Assignment | Gender Socialization
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INTRODUCTION Gender socialization is the process in which sociologist can define that why maleand female act like in different ways and, they have different type of social roles. It is theprocess where society may decide the individual role of male and female like men havetraditionally being expected to strong, quite aggressive while women have been expectedthat they are sensitive and nurturing in nature (Bunnell, 2016).1. Various sociological conceptsThere are several types of sociological concepts that affect the gendersocialization in many ways like human behaviour and actions (Endendijk and et.al.,2017). This process is including the behaviour and interaction of the individual men andwomen in the way of society’s culture or language, norms and values etc. Varioussociological concepts of the Gender socialization are given below:Society culture: As according to its name social culture and languages of thedifferent cities, can directly affect the behaviour and action of everyone who livesin the society. There are several factors like social interaction, socialization, dressand cultures etc. that affect the freedom of everyone either men or women (Greenand Jakupcak, 2016). Theories and behaviours which are surrounding to theminority and majority groups and ageism, racism and discrimination are the majortopics of sociological concepts.Social structure: Structure are mainly considered the several factors of societylike arrangements of roles, organizational structure, cultural symbols and manymore. Social structure is describing in individual role sets of male and female,status sets, that continuously affect the social culture (Reidy and et.al., 2016).Inequality: It is the main factor that consist social stratification, race, ethnicity,these are the major concept of gender socialization. Social stratification is knownas the unequal position of male and female in the society culture in which theyhave different roles in society in terms of wealth, property, cultural products.2
2. Key points of gender socialization:Gender socialization is the main process in which society taught everyone eithermen or women that how to behave in social culture and about their roles. This ismainly depending on the biological sex.Gender stereotypes is the result in which society can expect that each girl and boyhave their certain roles and that roles are socialized from their birth as well.In this process society directs the men and women that how they behaveaccording to their role and it will reflect their culture. According to thesocialization everyone instructs to behave in their own norms and values (Strapkoand et.al., 2016).ISSUEOFSOCIALSTRATIFICATIONANDINEQUALITYPRESENTEDINTHEFILMIn order to depict the issues of social stratification, as example Zootopia moviehas been taken into consideration. For an animated Disney film, Zootopia has beenconsidered as a tool that has a lot about sociopolitical aspects and the movie has alsocommented about racism. In the movie, all the animals live together in a big city;however at the time when predators start getting violent, it was up to a bunny cop and afox hustler who were there to solve the case (ZOOTOPIA’: A DISNEY MOVIETACKLING INEQUALITY AND RACISM”. 2016). There were many critics that werepresented after the release of the movie. The movie has depicted a surface – level postracial utopia with a dark underbelly. It states about the city of Zootopia wherein all theanimals live peacefully; however the movie goes beyond as a social perspective. According to the movie, many children above the age of nine will easily be ableto ascertain the dimensions of prejudice and bias; hence on that basis they cancomprehend the parallels presented (Lucas and Byrne, 2017). However, the researchindicates that even children can comprehend the concepts of biasness and prejudice.Certain reviews have stated that kids who watched this movie can easily analyze theunfairness aspects. There are several truly touching and hilarious moments presented inthe movie. In the movie, classless society of Zootopia is presented which species thatthere is one species in the city that looks underclass legitimately. In the movie, the foxes3
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