There are many theories that are biosocial that we have learned about, however; I will be focusing on three theories. The two theories I chose intrigued me, and made me think more about how society was when the theories were developed and how these theories may or may not apply to today's societal views. I feel it is important to be able to see how thing have and haven’t changed in societies eyes when it comes to a person’s biology. Not only on biology, but also how the theories are affected by nurture vs. nature, since society had seen changing and so has the ideas of gender and how gender affected by biology and or society. It seems to me that the sex role theory is a biosocial approach, because part of the idea is that because a woman's
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The reason is just because I am a woman does not mean my place is in the kitchen or taking care of the family. Even though I am nurturing person, this is due to my nurturing growing up from my parents and other family members. The thing is this in not the 50’s anymore, where only men worked outside the home, and woman’s place was taking care of the home and family. These role have been changing over the 6 decades, men now can be stay at home dad and or even single father, which seem them me that they can be just as nurturing as a woman can be, even though they are made with male anatomy, they are still able to be a nurturing parent to their child. When people associate certain careers, objects, or activities with my gender, they are underestimating me while overestimating men. Biology is what makes us up genetically, it is not what makes who we are and what we do, in my opinion. Society needs to change the views on how biology affects people's decisions, along with thinking only women can be nurturing, this is the 21st century the gender lines are slowly starting to fade on what is only a womans or a mans job, and I for one thinks it’s time to break the cycle of
The reason is just because I am a woman does not mean my place is in the kitchen or taking care of the family. Even though I am nurturing person, this is due to my nurturing growing up from my parents and other family members. The thing is this in not the 50’s anymore, where only men worked outside the home, and woman’s place was taking care of the home and family. These role have been changing over the 6 decades, men now can be stay at home dad and or even single father, which seem them me that they can be just as nurturing as a woman can be, even though they are made with male anatomy, they are still able to be a nurturing parent to their child. When people associate certain careers, objects, or activities with my gender, they are underestimating me while overestimating men. Biology is what makes us up genetically, it is not what makes who we are and what we do, in my opinion. Society needs to change the views on how biology affects people's decisions, along with thinking only women can be nurturing, this is the 21st century the gender lines are slowly starting to fade on what is only a womans or a mans job, and I for one thinks it’s time to break the cycle of