The identity struggle of adolescents begins with learning what aspects of identity are valued. ... This has an unimaginable ripple effect on a girls forming identity. ... Perception of identity is often a reflection of something else. ... It's not bad for society to have some expectations about physical appearance, but demanding girls be rail thin and saying it's bad to look masculine and harmful to girls' identities. ... The effect on the child of a forced identity can be irreparably damaging to a child's identity and internal voice. ...

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Albeit, men are also placed into categories that are seen to employ their natural masculine capabilities, such as occupations in technology, mechanics, building and other "manly" career choices. ... Social, cultural and psychological aspects of being either male or female is the essence of gender itself, and it is human nurturing rather than biological nature that is the key determinant of gender identities. ... It is gender-role socialisation that is more important in creating "masculine" men and "feminine" women than any genetic traits men and women might possess. ...

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Another symbol, which serves to link Hedda to her pre-marital identity and also serves to construct her in terms of difference when compared to endorsed female figures of nineteenth century is her association with pistols. Pistols are representative of masculine power, a phallic symbol which serves to link Hedda to her father and thus her past. ... The pistols also demonstrate the masculine regulation of the female: Brack takes the pistols away from Hedda "Because we"re not going to play that game anymore today." ... (Act III, p345) Hair is symbolic of identity and sexuality. Thea's h...

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Violent crime can be seen as a highly masculine activity. ... As Ray states, 'if there is an underlying biological tendency towards masculine violence, this should manifest similarly in different cultures and places, which it does not' (2011:85). This, therefore, arguing against the theory of biological disorders which links men with violence, as if this was the case then all men with these biological traits would be committing the same masculine form of violence, no matter what race, age, culture or part of society they live in. ... Moving onto the crisis of masculinity, Ray evalua...

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Not only is the epic the blueprint for a perfect leader, but also a guidebook for the construction of masculine and feminine gender roles in ancient India. ... Rather than letting society suppress their identity, they are able to manipulate the values of their patriarchal society to serve their own motives, which are often ones of establishing honor for themselves. ... Even the gods become worried that Rama has lost sight of his identity (Narayan 150). This is the way Sita establishes an identity for herself: because burning is a way to ensure that only what is pure remains (DeVore), subm...

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In the 1950's, sociologist Talcott Parsons concluded that in the middle-class suburban family the masculine personality tends to be goal-oriented interests, needs and functions, presumably in whatever social system both sexes are involved, while the feminine personality tends more to the primacy of expressive interests, needs and functions. ... These theories recognize two points: (1) the andocentric bias of Freud's theories in which the penis forms the core of gender identity and personality and females are devalued such that their unique biological capacities are trivialized; and (...

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More specifically, he examines the belief that organized sports has the potential, furthermore, it is often used, as a tool for cultivating gender identity. ... Menner agrees that through sports young men can acquire characteristics that have been deemed as "masculine" by society such as competitive spirit, winning above all attitude, toughness, and other characteristics. ... Instead, sports helps children acquire masculine values that are already ingrained by social members at a very early age. ... Additionally, this need to present you as a masculine figure places women police o...

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It is the initial premise of this paper that communication innovations and changes in economic relationships affect the collections of habits, life styles, outlooks and identities we normally associate with the notion of culture. ... From examining early TV in historical context, it is also clear that the presence of Australian television provoked reactions that were rooted in concerns about Australian national identity. ... Internationally Australians are represented as masculine, democratic, rational, moral, dynamic and progressive. ... People orient themselves towards celebrity narrative...

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Race is about identity; gender as well. Whether or not one wants to embrace that identity is up to him/her, but society enforces that races' or genders' social construct status with stereotypes, expectations, and close mindedness regardless of how that person acts. ... Men are seen to be masculine and unfeeling because if they're anything else, that jeopardizes their stance on the social spectrum as a dominant male. ...

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Men are expected to be strong and masculine, so to fulfill this requirement, they often build friendships based upon common factors such as sports, drinking, or even their love of women. ... Chodorow had a connection with feminine and masculine roles in gender identities, which I think relates to platonic heterosexual cross-sex relationships and their difficulty to work well. ... In one study, women reported that the primary benefit was the opportunity to engage in a more masculine interaction style. ...

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It has been a question in consideration to many sociologists that whether the social identity of the individual is something that can be chosen and interpreted or that it is similar to that of an actor whose roles and lines are already written. ... Mead focused on how an individual passes through a series of stages in taking on their social identity. ... Learning and negotiating the social identities is a continuous process throughout their lives. Through the family the child's identity is formed, a process identified by Cooley as primary socialisation. ... Many great opportunities are a...

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Several common factors determining a person's sense of group identity are race, religion, gender, and athletics or other social priorities. ... Laurent seems to challenge the viewer to try to define the role fashion plays in the formation of this group's social identity, as well as in the identity formation of its individual members. ... The framing of the picture, from the illusion of levitation of the four central figures to the parallelism in the choices of dress and style, which Simmel would say the young people are using as a bridge to a common identity, supports the notion o...

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The mother will relate to their identities how they become more difference in behaviors in the future. However, there are also the limits how all boys and girls or even families develop the childhood's identities. ... Gender is more about the process and the society will help labeling the stereotype characteristics with terms "masculine" and "feminine". ... For those people, they still keep their own gender identity as male or female but their expression will be different through the gender display. ... It happens through sex in first and then it maintains through how social norms and str...

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With the use of gender, both masculine and feminine viewpoints are used to create a well-rounded social history. ... Since a net has holes in it many things are left behind and not included such as life-parts, body-parts and the birth identity of Elizabeth Marsh's mother.18 Social history can easily due do the same. ...

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(Walklate, 2008) Feminist victimology has also offered an explanation of the relationship between masculine power and female victimisation by drawing upon research which shows that traditional gender norms reinforce and reward male dominance over women. ... (Davies, et al., 2003, pp. 3) However, this appears to be the only value it has added to the discipline of victimology, as it has not necessarily added any further knowledge concerning the identity or tendencies of victims or offenders, and it is worth noting that many of the studies were criticised and discredited for flawed methodology an...

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Name: Andrew Verrijdt One of the most important political and social movements of the twentieth century has been the drive towards achieving complete equality for all people regardless of race, colour, class, gender identity, mental state or physical impairment. ... It was further found that this was not wholly due to the use of the masculine pronoun as a generic: "97 percent of the uses of "he" referred male humans or animals, or to persons presumed to be male" (the examples he cites are sailors and farmers). ... Silveira also found that both men and women tend to visualise male figures w...

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