Masculinity And Gender Roles In The Social World

Drinking According to Gough, McFadden and McDonald (2013), As being individuals of society we are constantly connected to the social world in many different ways and levels. There are two levels stated as the interpersonal and the societal that pertains to our interactions and relationships that we are involved in as individuals. Both social level are perceived to penetrate and surround us by impacting our own identity. For example, the best example of alcohol consumption would be how where drinking takes place and who is drinking it. Gender plays a major role in the social world especially on how women and men are treated in society and because of this women and men are presented to different opportunities that are seen acceptable to society. An individual's culture also plays a major extent in society because society has “labels” on which is better and this can impact our opportunities and our daily life.

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In society, I feel being a male is more privileged because women are always fighting to get what they want and it seems as if men are just handed opportunities. Women are oppressed by the different wages they recieve opposed to men, types of jobs society thinks they can handle, and our body image. Additionally, having a different ethnic background has always played a major role and it continues to be oppressed by society. Some hispanics aren't allowed to live in certain areas, hold certain jobs because people in higher authority don’t see them as fit to do the job, and aren't able to get higher ranks at their