Purpose Of Education As A Social Institution

In this paper, I will discuss education as a social institution. In our society, having some kind of education is an important aspect of many people. I choose to write about this social institution because it has a big impact in my life. Its importance to my life can be simply explained by the amount of time I had to spend I school and in activities happen around school. Education interests me because the school system is a social agency that was created to enhance the processes of socialization through education. Students not only learn from the academic curriculum, but they also benefit from socializing with their teachers and peers. This social institution offers a useful analysis of my identity because education helped me becoming who I …show more content…
(Gender and Sexuality 2, 3). The purposes of gender are to establish gender identities and gender roles of the individuals within our society. For example, being a man means that he has to show masculine traits – he has to bring home the bacon, be able to lift heavy objects, has a muscular build, and be the head of a household. And being a woman means that she has to stay prim and proper, has to be sweet, be able to do house chores properly, and has to raise kids at home. My understanding of stratification of gender roles can be explained through the use of gender roles regarding household labors in the U.S. According to Ritzer, “married or cohabiting males do better at work and are more productive, at least in part, because their wives are handling more of the responsibilities at home” (Ritzer, 262). Based on this, I can assume that men are very unlikely wanting to share domestic chores and will use excuses to not having to do them; for example: “I will be able to do my job much better if you take care of all the house chores.” Even though researches indicate, “the differences between women and men are narrowing,” data shown that in 2010, there are still 68% of women compared to 41% of men having to do food preparation or food cleanup (Ritzer, 263). Back in the days, there was about 0% of men, compared to 41% today having to do food preparation or food cleanup. Subsequently, there are 41 men out of 100 total that would contribute to household chores. It has been about a century since the 1990s (the latest wave of feminists wanting to abolished gender role expectations and stereotypes), and there is still a large gap in the amount of men wanting to share household chores. At this rate, I think that issues regarding gender roles still have a