For all of our society’s history, women have been oppressed in many ways. Many individual can see this division of gender ranging from the biblical era. The bible often sorted the differentiation between the two roles of gender, and many people couldn’t stray from this constructed idea. Also in early societies, women were deemed to gathering surplus from the ground, and men were constructed as hunters. Until recently these arbitrary socially constructed ideas were not challenged by individuals in society.
From this video, there are numerous anthropological concepts and notions that employ how society has constructed the idea of femininity. In history people have constructed an ideology that women are to be attractive, youthful, and homemakers. …show more content…
Often anthropologists look to see why people do what they do, or the action behind behaviors. Interracial relationships are often a taboo in our society, and many times this relationship comes with social sanctions. Social sanctions are used to enforce norms in our society. Since interracial relationships against the flow of society many people view it with arbitrary meanings such as disgusting, antagonistic, and detrimental. The discourse associated with ideologies of interracial relationships can be explored from the historical particularism theory. Historical particularism looks to understand the meanings and symbols that we have today, by looking at our history and learning how they came about. I believe C Wright Mills explains this concept with this quote, “Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.” This is saying that to understand why people have certain behaviors can often be explained from their historical context. A clear example of this is today we have lots of tensions and conflict between African Americans and White Americans. This tension is mostly likely due to the treatment of African Americans throughout American history. We could say that most the negative connotations associated with interracial relationships can be due to our history. The lady in the video could be …show more content…
Indeed, we institute such inter-subjective realities, even give them embodiment in the layout of the village, in forms of address, in ritual and myth. I think he was meaning that people in society socially construct the meanings and ideologies, and this can come from the social construct theory. We construct what we believe based upon people acting upon their interpretations. An example of the social construct theory could be stopping at a red light. We have gave this simple thought that we need to stop when a light turns red. When looking at meanings that have been assigned, and could be classified as discourse; we need to be able to see the difference between proscribed meanings and the truth. To see the differentiation we need to demystify ourselves, and acquire culture. We need to not only think of issues and meanings based upon our socialization, but on how people have incorporated them into their lives and your own. Overall all of these factors have contributed to the way people understand and interpret their beliefs and truths to establish
From this video, there are numerous anthropological concepts and notions that employ how society has constructed the idea of femininity. In history people have constructed an ideology that women are to be attractive, youthful, and homemakers. …show more content…
Often anthropologists look to see why people do what they do, or the action behind behaviors. Interracial relationships are often a taboo in our society, and many times this relationship comes with social sanctions. Social sanctions are used to enforce norms in our society. Since interracial relationships against the flow of society many people view it with arbitrary meanings such as disgusting, antagonistic, and detrimental. The discourse associated with ideologies of interracial relationships can be explored from the historical particularism theory. Historical particularism looks to understand the meanings and symbols that we have today, by looking at our history and learning how they came about. I believe C Wright Mills explains this concept with this quote, “Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.” This is saying that to understand why people have certain behaviors can often be explained from their historical context. A clear example of this is today we have lots of tensions and conflict between African Americans and White Americans. This tension is mostly likely due to the treatment of African Americans throughout American history. We could say that most the negative connotations associated with interracial relationships can be due to our history. The lady in the video could be …show more content…
Indeed, we institute such inter-subjective realities, even give them embodiment in the layout of the village, in forms of address, in ritual and myth. I think he was meaning that people in society socially construct the meanings and ideologies, and this can come from the social construct theory. We construct what we believe based upon people acting upon their interpretations. An example of the social construct theory could be stopping at a red light. We have gave this simple thought that we need to stop when a light turns red. When looking at meanings that have been assigned, and could be classified as discourse; we need to be able to see the difference between proscribed meanings and the truth. To see the differentiation we need to demystify ourselves, and acquire culture. We need to not only think of issues and meanings based upon our socialization, but on how people have incorporated them into their lives and your own. Overall all of these factors have contributed to the way people understand and interpret their beliefs and truths to establish