Blog 7: Gender

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In this video, she says that in order to understand gender, we have to think of the three concepts of sociology. The three concepts are structural functional theory, symbolic interaction theory and social conflict theory. All three concepts have different reasons for why gender exists.When looking at Structural Functionalism, gender is “organizing society into distinct roles that compliment each other.” This goes with the idea that men are providers and women are the ones who take care of the house and the family. When looking at Symbolic Interventionists, they are more focused on how gender is part of the every day life. They look at gender as something that a person does not something that is “imposed but institutions.” When looking at the Social Conflict Theory, it is argued that gender is ” a structural system that distributes power and privilege to some and disadvantage to others.” This falls with when men are seen as more dominate than anything else. She points out that men are falsely seen as the best fit for leadership because women are seen as more emotional compared to men. She states that the social conflict theory would not be complete without discussing and bringing up feminism. She also points out the fact that gender isn’t the same to everyone. Some people base gender off of masculinity and femininity. While other cultures have three genders. Many people classify gender differently and that’s totally fine.
I believe this video was perfect for describing gender and it’s perfect because it ties into class. The things that the video missed was the type of genders. In class we learned that there are many types of genders like cis-gender, non-conforming gender, and transgender. Many people look at gender as gender roles. As of today, people are starting to use pro-nouns, different words for gender and different definitions. I have heard the biggest arguments that people have is that gender and sex aren’t the same thing. Many people believe gender is basically based on the body parts that you are born with where as other people believe gender and sex are two different things. Gender is what you choose to be and sex is what’s given to you at birth. I don’t have a personal opinion about it but I just think it’s crazy how much stuff has changed through-out the years about gender. But like I said, this video was perfect for describing gender.
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