1. Read Chapter 1: Stratification by Gender before you respond. You'll need to use terms and concepts from the chapter in your response.
2. Write at least 250 words about this topic. Post your word count at the end of your essay.
3. Include APA citations and a reference to the textbook (no outside sources, please)
4. Save your essay as a Word document and click on the title above to attach your essay to the assignment page by the close of the week on Sunday.
Sociologists describe gender roles as learned patterns of behavior that a society expects of men and women. In other words, what we know as masculinity is a set of qualities that we expect to find in a typical man and femininity a set of qualities we expect to find in a typical woman. Increasingly we are becoming aware that there may not be only one typical package of qualities that make up being female or male.
Some sociologists prefer to speak of the "performance of gender" since more and more men and women are performing roles once considered the domain of the other gender.
In your essay response this week, please respond to the following:
In what ways do you "do gender appropriately"? (make sure you reference parts of the chapters where gender role socialization and male/female gender behavior expectations are discussed). In what ways do you violate traditional gender norms? Discuss how these behaviors make you feel and how others react to them.