...There are more than 1,000 single sex classes in the United States. Single Sex classrooms are a bad thing because they cause boys and girls to not to be able to work as good together. Not being able to work together makes a lot of people not get jobs and have to worry about financial needs. Although I understand that single sex classes can provide the right learning environment, I still believe single sex classes are not good because they cause poor social skills with the opposite sex. Same sex classrooms are not beneficial, therefore American schools should not create same sex classrooms because they promote poor social skills, cause gender stereotypes, and high tutions. Having same sex classes protes poor social skills with the opposite...
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...Second, they want all boys feel they were treated equally, no matter they were more naughty or less. One thing we are sure is, we can not leave naughty boys like this and treat them really nice in order to make them happy but remain the problem; however, we can treat those less naughty boys harsher than they should receive in order to make them even better. To make the balance, to make students feel equal, teachers treat all boys the same, using the standard of the worse student. One big point is, teachers develop two separate system for boys and girls, as the first reason said, “boys” are going to bear more when they grow older, that’s the reason why they bear more now. Teachers labeling “boys should bear more and be more brave” to boys. Girls always get more rewards than boys, when they finish same almont of mission. When girls doing their homework, some of them do made mistakes. Compared with boys, if girls make mistakes on...
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...the events that triggered this debate was when LEGO came out with a product line for girls called Friends. The TV ad shows wonderful town of Heartlake where “Stephanie” and her friends get to enjoy “all the things girls love”: interior decorating, getting pedicures and baking cupcakes. The sets feature taller and shapelier feminine figurines that lock into pink, purple and pastel green settings, such as a dream house, a splash pool and a beauty shop. LEGO has created this product based on four years of behavioral research. This research purportedly led them to the conclusion that girls like everything pink, romantic and cute [5]. The product has generated outrage. The company was accused by many parents of feeding kids the gender stereotypes and locking them in to blue and pink roles in very young age. Marketing to children is even more of a grey area than marketing to women. When it comes to child psychology the foundation of any debate is the question as to whether their tastes are a product of either nature or nurture. The recent research leads to conclusion that a lot of nature is actually nurtured [6]. Such things as taste, social norms, roles and behavior form as a result of our experiences and observations. It’s not a secret that to this day, even in western society, gender roles are clearly defined and imposed through approval of conformity to such roles. Girls are nurturing, compromising and...
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...Deconstructing of two soap adverts Waterloo road and Top Boy Task 1 In this task I will be researching the structures and techniques of television advertisement. I will be talking about the key structures and characterise of the product. Also how they attract the audience by using different media techniques. The advert choice I have chosen for this task is waterloo road which has been TV series for a very long time, and has built a reputation for being a really goon TV series. Waterloo Road Waterloo road is a British television drama series that is based in the north of London near Manchester in Rochdale, England. It was first broadcasted on the 9th March 2006 on BBC one. It is very troubled school with so many different things happening within the school or outside of the school. The series focuses on the lives of the school teachers and students and confronts social issues like extramarital affairs, abortions, divorce, child abuse, and suicide. I will be deconstructing the last advert for waterloo road with Kyle stack. Waterloo road endorses celebrity endorsement this is when they use celebrities to try and boost there ratings and waterloo road did this by using Britain’s got talent winner George Sampson. By adding this one celebrity the producers of waterloo road knew that it would boots their ratings and gain more of an audience but the audience will be people who know George Sampson from BGT (Britain got talent). This also helps the celebrity boast their...
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...[pic] The Bra Boys are a gang of young blokes who enjoy their surf amongst the beaches of Maroubra on New South Wales who occasionally get made out to be something they are not by the media. Main gang members Sunny and Koby Abberton have made a documentary to tell their side of the story and prove their innocence. Today I will be discussing and reviewing whether or not it is true that the "Bra Boys" are depicted by the media as being maligned. Within the Bra Boys documentary they are stating themselves not to be a gang, but a brotherhood. What kind of brotherhood walks around the streets late night getting into lights supposedly "protecting" their place in town and the beach? I personally think that the gang have done immature things in the past which media have taken too far to make them look bad but in saying that 1 also believe that they are a great bunch of blokes who deep down just want to enjoy the surf Media obligations such as a murder within the bra boys got fully blown out of proportion and the media made false accusations to the public. I am supporting the case that the bra boys are not as bad as made out to be. December 24th 2002 On this night in December an alleged brawl between the notorious surf gang the bra boys and many of the local off duty police. It started out as a normal night with a few of he boys together all having fun, having a few drinks celebrating a fellow bra boy and close friends birthday. The bra boys party consisting of approximately...
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...FINAL ESSAY Your name Course Name Date 1. Describe the major hormonal changes that occur during adolescence. Describe girls’ reactions to menarche and boys’ reactions to spermarche during puberty. What factors influence the way adolescents respond? Describe the impact of puberty on parent–child interaction and the adaptive value of this change in adolescents’ relationships with their parents. Hormonal change is at its peak during adolescence and is a period of rapid psychological and physiological transformation. During puberty boys and girls sweat and their oil glands become more active. This will result in body odour and acne. They also get underarm and pubic hair in the body. The brain releases Gonadotropin – releasing hormone (GnRH) for stimulating pituitary gland. Pituitary gland is also known as the Master gland releases luteinizing hormones and follicle stimulating hormone. In boys, interstitial cell stimulating hormone and it stimulates interstitial cells to produce to from hormones in male organ of testicles. Both male and females have estrogens and androgen in their body in low level and after puberty, males begin to have more androgen including testosterone. In female they get more oestrogen as puberty crosses. Menarche is the first menstrual bleeding in a girl and her reaction to this event can be both emotional and physical. It is a sign of growing up and happens between the age of 9 and 15 years. The girls usually show stress, irritability and...
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...of view of his life from when he was a little boy to being a man, and also he talks about his insecurity of being a man. In the essay he says: “everything in stereotyped manliness goes against the life of the mind”. This quote is true because this is what is stereotyped everyday. Theroux tells us that America's view of "Being a Man" means to be stupid, obedient, and soldierly. This idea goes against everything that Theroux is. Theroux has many examples that back up his belief ."In paragraph nine he says “everything in stereotyped manliness goes against the life of the mind”. This means that writing is not a manly behavior. Theroux believed the idea which is why he hates being a man.Theroux goes into detail about how sports harms little boys and how it make boys every violent."Just as high school basketball teaches you how to be a poor loser, the manly attitude toward sports seems to be little more than a recipe for creating bad marriages, social misfits, moral degenerates, sadists, latent rapists and just plain louts I regard high school sports as a drug far worse then marijuana.." I have witnessed two experience similar to Theroux. One was when I was in the 3rd grade. My teacher had gave the class an assignment to do. We either had to write a peom nature or make a picture collage of nature. Most of the girls chose the poem and all the boys did the collage expect for 2 boys. Those 2 boys did the poem. When the other boys found out that they were doing the poem they kept...
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...James Wilson 2/22/12 Sociology Mass Media Assignment Being ‘Dazed and Confused’ in 1976 Mass media has slowly progressed in America since its foundation. Then in the twentieth century, mass media fundamentally changed society forever. From newspapers, to television, the internet, and cell phones, the media affects socialization on a massive level. ‘Socialization is the process whereby we internalize our culture’s values, beliefs, and norms. Through this experience, we become functioning members of our society’ (Introduction to Sociology: A Collaborative Approach; Second Edition, page 398). Anything that has to do with any sort of social norms or behavior comes from the media and is affecting society more and more every day. It has gotten to the point where most people are consumed by it. For example, newspapers describe new situations and current events in the world. This keeps people aware of only what the men in charge want them to know. Television was invented as another way to show news and forms of entertainment which in some cases, provide examples of social ‘norms’. Norms are what certain groups or societies expect everyone within that group or society to uphold as part their values. When the internet was created, it was made to provide a mass network of computers all around the globe. This allows anybody to receive any sort of information at anytime, anywhere in the world. Then cell phones were invented, and more recently, internet on cell phones. This is how the media...
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...Associate Program Material Stereotypes and Prejudice Worksheet Please complete the following exercises, remembering that you are in an academic setting and should remain unbiased, considerate, and professional when completing this worksheet. Part I Select three of the identity categories below and name or describe at least 3 related stereotypes for each: * Race * Ethnicity * Religion * Gender * Sexual orientation * Age * Disability Category | Stereotype 1 | Stereotype 2 | Stereotype 3 | Race | Asian’s are smart and work for cheap | White men can’t Jump | Black people are better at Sports | Sexual Orientation | If your gay then you like all other gays | Women are bad drivers | Gay boys are feminine or sissies | Ethnicity | Hispanics are illegal | Jews are greedy | All black people are on welfare | Part II Answer each question in 50 to 100 words related to those stereotypes. Provide citations for all the sources you use. What are the positive aspects of stereotypes, if any? There are plenty of negative aspects of stereo types, and it is hard to anticipate any positive outcome from any slandering remark. Let it be known that there are actual positive aspects to labeling and stereotyping. If you are Asian, your positive stereotypes are your math skills. (Markman, 2013) Markman questions the stereotypes and our temperament, “if negative stereotypes make you mad, then do positive stereotypes do the opposite”. What are...
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...12 Angry Men Writing Assignment Final Exam Project Due: ________________________________________ (EDMODO) You will see a lot of psychological phenomena exhibited in the movie 12 Angry Men. Many of these phenomena are listed in the boxes on the next page. Your task for this assignment is to watch the movie, take note of these various psychological phenomena, and then write a cohesive 2-3 page paper discussing these themes. In writing your paper you must pick at least 5 separate incidences from the movie. For each incidence, describe how it relates to psychological phenomenon. Be sure to use concepts from across all of psychology. Do NOT, for example, just pick examples from social psychology (such as conformity and stereotyping); use examples from cognition, memory, sensation, and perception, etc. as well. In order to construct a cohesive essay, you should structure your discussion of the 4 incidences around a central area. That is, your paper needs to be more than just a loose collection of summary points. Consider how you can tie all the incidences together around a central psychological idea. * Behavior is determined by multiple causes: For any complex human behavior, multiple reasons exist as to why that behavior was done. For example, consider your study behavior. It is determined by intelligence, memory and attentional constraints, and social factors. * Behavior is shaped by cultural heritage: At several points in the semester we discussed how the people...
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...attends an all-black college to finally Harlem where he joins cult-like political party called the Brotherhood. The narrator is handed these roles throughout the book, whether it is a driver, a student, a worker, or a party member, which each one he rejects until he is able to realize his role in society as an African American man. The era that the narrator faces his identity crisis is during a time of segregation between races and the complex theory that the white race was the superior. Ellison’s position of racial stereotypes men throughout the novel has a clear compare and contrast for me, but it seems almost invisible for women. Both black and white women characters throughout the novel are neglected and “invisible”, and are personified as typical classic female stereotypes that imitate either the nurturing mother complex or the whore or seducer. Ellison portrays the most notable white women as highly sexual objects and has this fascination with the sexual stereotypes of black men. Black women are as well portrayed as overly sexual beings, but the ones that don’t posses these traits are categorized as the mother figure. In Invisible Man, both white and black women are deliberately stereotyped and are dominated and used by the men in the novel who seek to further their own agendas. First, The white women that appear in the novel represent the typical white women that are interested in black men. This tabooed...
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...Throughout media texts, most men share certain common characteristics. They are strong, stoic, protective, rational and independent, to name a few. Characters such as James Bond, Tony Soprano and most superheroes greatly exemplify many of these qualities. Reoccurring representations of men with these same attributes contribute to what is called hegemonic masculinity, or “normative male behavior” (Iftkhar, November 6, 2014). This stereotype causes the audience to associate certain qualities with men. Gotham, a new television series that creatively divulges the backstories of Batman and his most famous rivals, appeals to a male audience and represents masculinity in the classic ways. Through both character illustration and dialogue, Gotham portrays most of its male characters as strong, aggressive, and independent protectors, reinforcing the conception of hegemonic masculinity. At the same time, the show also presents characters who challenge or pervert those norms exploring invalidity of the stereotype. The city of Gotham is in bad shape. Crime lords rule and have made deals with the Gotham County Police Department to keep it that way. For example, some doctors work on the black market to treat criminals and police officers agree not to arrest them in exchange for information about the patients they see. In addition to structured crime, strange murders frequently occur in the city. James Gordon, newly appointed police homicide detective and son of former district attorney...
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...casting a secret ballot or allowing everyone to voice their opinion. However he did not provide with any specific inputs to the entire discussion. Juror 2: He just went with the flow with a lack of ability to reason out of his own. Because it was his first time and was nervous to be on a murder trial jury. He said it was obvious that the boy was guilty from the word Go, as nobody proved otherwise. But as the discussion proceeded he took a stand and gave an insight to the way the stab wound was made. Juror 3: He was an Egoist. He had a personal prejudice that the case is crystal clear. He declared the kid as a dangerous killer, although there was no evidence given to even consider anyone else involved. He wanted to slap the kid down before the trouble starts as he had prior bad experience with his kid. He even supported his bias against kids by how he use to call his father 'Sir' and now his kid had left him after they had a fight. He presented the facts first in the discussion and narrated the fall of events as he wanted to hear it and deemed him guilty. He was so determined to have the boy guilty that he could not accept anybody switch votes and also called it 'Love my underprivileged brother week' in anger. Juror 4: He is the one who thought the entire story was flimsy. He based all his opinions on stereotypes that the boy was from slums and slums are breeding ground for criminals, and children from slums are potential menaces to society. He has an aggressive attitude towards...
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...The influence of media on gender roles Over the last forty years, the gender roles for male and female have changed quite a bit. In the past, women were often viewed as having to assume the duties of the housewife, while the men are the breadwinner in the family. However, these stereotypical views of men and women alike have changed over time to shape the present. Firstly, in attempt to define the meaning of a stereotype Wikipedia (2009) notes that: “Stereotype is a preconceived, oversimplified, exaggerated, and often demeaning assumption of the characteristics possessed by an individual due to his or her membership in a specific group. [It] usually functions to deny individuals respect or legitimacy based on their membership in that group. They are the hardest to dislodge in situations where a dominant group desires to keep another group subordinate”. The purpose of this essay is to generate an understanding of how gender roles are shaped and defined in society due to an overwhelming amount of stereotyping and the influence of the mass media that has left an undeniable impact on our everyday life. When talking about gender, we are referring to “culturally learned notions of masculinity and femininity” (Tepperman et al., 2007, p. 187). As noted by Tepperman (2007), “From a social standpoint, gender is the social enactment of a biological difference.” The result of this is males are treated as men because they play masculine roles, and females are treated as women because...
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...‘Teenagers’ or ‘young people,’ who are lost in the attack of the media. Society seems to be very closed minded when describing teenagers. We are not rewarded or celebrated for the good things we do but instead are portrayed as pregnant, drug abusing, binge drinking, violent, jobless juveniles who engage in underage sexual intercourse and don’t care about anything. Or else we are victimised as the hopeless future of the world we live in. Both are true, to some extent, but why stereotype teenagers in such a negative way when the majority of us are working hard to benefit the future and are working hard to please our parents and society. Where are OUR news headlines? Where is OUR acknowledgement? We’re not all bad, in fact majority of us do the right thing. It is a small minority or percentage of teens who are overshadowing the majority us who are making valuable contributions to our communities. Everyone makes mistakes, not adults apparently…Imagine a 30 year old man robbing a petrol station. Now imagine a teenage boy doing it. Which one would be targeted by the media? Why? Why does society discriminate us? For being a teenager? I think adults forget they were one once too. We are undermined because we are learning. We are undermined because we are young adults. We are undermined because WE are the...
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