Personal Narrative: My Definition Of Gender Socialization

Growing up in a strict home with strict morals, I learned what the course text recognizes as gender roles throughout my childhood. I grew up in a family with a mom and dad who loved each other. I have always watched how my parents would interact and treat each other. They were male and female who would kiss each other and love each other. Growing up this lead to what I identify as my gender socialization. The book defines gender socialization as (). I have learned what is normal from witnessing a heterosexual couple. My parent’s marriage is an example of endogamy. Lecture describes endogamy as when you marry someone in the same social group as yourself. They shared similar faith, social status, race, and age. Also, growing up, my dad would …show more content…
I grew up in a house in the suburbs. It was a good neighborhood and there was no much crime around us. My class status that my family and I have definitely factors into the opportunities I am given and the relationships I have made. Being raised in urban setting with little crime kept me on the right path. In the past and present I have not experienced what the textbook refers to as primary deviance. Primary deviance is what would define as person as rule breaker. Going to a good school with good teachers who cared about their students kept me on the straight and narrow. The class category is a reason why I am able to go to a great university today. Drexel can be an expensive university. I do not think that without my families’ class status I would have had the opportunity to go to college and get a degree.
My dad is a business men and who is successful and good at what he does. My mom is a stay at home mom who never went to college. My dad helps me to do my best and strive to achieve anything I want. My mom came from a class status where she was not able to go to college and has done everything she can so that I can get a degree. Being a nurse has always been a dream of mine. Without my dad and my families support I am not sure if I would be able to reach all of the goals and aspirations that I have set for myself …show more content…
My mom was one of six. My desire to have children could be based on the social force that women are caretakers. Having children of my own would fulfill my need to take care of others. Looking back on my goals of becoming a nurse anesthetist is something that would have never happened in the colonial era. Women stayed at home at took care of the house. The era we live in today where women are almost treated as equals has given me the opportunity to pursue my goals and become a nurse anesthetist. The book mentions a term called the glass ceiling. The glass ceiling is when women have reached the highest point in their careers. Maybe I have set such high goals for my career so that I can keep climbing the ladder of success and not stall. Being a woman, we can be over dominated and looked down on. My career goal will prove society wrong and show that women can achieve as much as