Social Roles Of Men And Women In Society

Men and Women in Society Men and woman both have cultural norms no matter where you go. Everyone person in a society and environment has a niche. A niche is a role in a habitat, or in this case a social role that a person must perform. From what I have read, it seems to me as if that more and more; societies are striving for more equality between man and woman, but there are a few who still see the world in black and white. There are still some societies who frown upon woman for wanting equality. All cultures have grown to adapt and evolve in their respective habitats. No matter what hits them a society will continue to try to prosper. In this critique I will be talking about men and woman and their relationships and how they are viewed …show more content…
As I stated above in certain societies men grow up thinking that woman are inferior to themselves. Women do not get the best rights in those certain societies. There are societies where woman are not even allowed to show their faces. Women are thought of as soft, gentle, and kind. There are cultures that believe that once a woman gets married she is under the husband’s rules and is treated as if she was a slave. In a similar manner that I said before, if a girl grows up thinking that she is worth less than a man is than she will believe it. Women are mistreated everyday no matter where you look. All across the globe, you can and will see some violence against woman at some point. There are repercussions for a woman losing her temper in a society where a woman should be silent and only speak when spoken to; there have been times where woman will actually get hit for doing something wrong and she can do nothing about it (Becker). Relationships are essential in societies. Without a man and a woman a society and culture would die, without any descendants. It is very important for men and women to cooperate in environments without each other both sexes are doomed to fail. They are societies that think if they break their traditional values that their culture will crumble and all that will be left of it is ashes. In societies that have grown and expanded and broke away from old values of putting woman …show more content…
From what I’ve read on the article and in the chapter. It seems the more a society grows, the more difficulties arise, due to new ways of tools, along with industrialization and communication which break the normal traditions. With all this new technology they can peer out into the outside world and see how they do things differently have easier ways to labor new ways to change the area around them, all new ways to evolve and adapt (Nanda/Miller). A step further would be to allow outsiders access into the community and see how they act. By looking at the outside world it gives them a glance of a different reality better or worse than their