The following essay argues why the differentiation of sex and gender is necessary and that gender is socially constructed on an everyday basis, whether we are aware of it or not. Social arenas such as education, sports, music and mass media all contribute to the social construction of genders and their respective roles. The society which we live in has an enormous impact on what type of person we become. From shaping our way of speaking and dressing to influencing our attitudes and behaviour. Our
This remark by Ella Soper and Nicholas Bradley in their‘Introduction’ to Greening the 'Maple': Canadian Ecocriticism in Context (2015) definitely sets a ground to explore the 'context' that was there in Canadian literature long before the advent of ecocriticism and discuss both the continuities and ruptures in Canadian studies that reveal "nature" to be a seminal yet shifting and unstable concept and site of investigation. Ecology, the relation between individuals and the physical environment also
we try to engage a broader definition of culture. This essay will address how cultural identities and practices interweave with aspects of globalisation. Looking beyond theories of cultural homogenisation and polarisation, this essay will focus on various responses
most remarkable practitioners of social science’ (Smith, 2006:1). Smith goes on to further remark that Goffman‘s work is ‘enough to signify not only a subject matter but also a highly distinctive attitude and analytic stance toward the social world’ (Smith, 2006:1). This claim is perhaps justified when noting the alternative direction Goffman headed in his development of sociological theory in comparison to the founding fathers, Marx, Durkheim and Weber. This essay will consider and discuss Goffman’s
The special historic and social-economic background of Hong Kong forms its own identity, which is different from other regions like mainland China, and makes it a specific imagined community, which is accord with Benedict Anderson’s theory of imagined community. Whereas, it is under discussion whether since the reunification in 1997, Hong Kong has been gradually transformed into a part of China in terms of culture and identity and, thus, will no longer be a separated imagined community in the future
This essay will discuss how differences and inequalities are produced in society using material from “Making Lives” and “Ordering lives”. Differences can generally be defined as the contrasts between group of people, groups that can be based on gender,race,class.Inequalities can be described as the uneven disp?? of resources in society. First it will examine how differences and inequalities are socially produced through consumerismconsumption and the theory about the 'seduced' and 'repressed', how
By applying labelling theory, I agree with a small degree the statement that “Labelling theory provides accurate understandings on why social welfare in Hong Kong is said to being abused seriously”. Though this easy, I will base on the case of Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) to discuss the argument of my stance. In this essay, I would like to explain by the process of labelling and also investigate how the stigma leads to deviant behaviour by using the case of CSSA. By explaining
meaning to experience, interactions that occur in events of our lives and how they relate to the historical processes and large social issues. This is an interrelation between microsociology and macrosociology. The microsociology focuses on the small groups of individuals, how they make meaning through the theory of symbolic interactionism. This develops to conflict theory and functionalism which focuses on a larger scale of the society known as macrosociology. Understanding this part about sociological
This essay focuses on the extent to which men and women conform to their gender roles in the western culture. Generally, we see people swapping the words ‘gender’ and ‘sex’, which is wrong. We are born with a sex allotted to us. Both ‘biological sex’ and ‘gender’ are distinctive. Gender is not associated with one’s physical construction, then again, it is far more confounding. It is characterised as “the complex interrelationship between an individual’s sex (gender biology) and one’s internal
betterment. The underlying principles of cultural studies has traces to Socrates’ statement. Cultural studies, as the theoretical and empirical analysis of culture, investigates the way cultural practices are related to various systems of power and social-phenomena. The field considers culture as a constantly interacting and changing sets of practices and processes. Though there have been multiple attempts to define culture yet it is hard to provide an all-inclusive definition of what culture