Sociology Gender Roles

Gender roles play a big part in my family and community. For example, for events that a person hosts the children always eat first then the men, and the women are last. This has been going on my whole life. I was not trying to test my experiment on this but it just happened to go along with my experiment. I defiantly wanted to see what people’s reactions were when I would take their food off their plates. I have known these people I whole life, some better than others. Before the events start, the men always stand outside the shelter house and talk about the weather and farmer stuff. The women are usually sitting around tables gossiping or getting the meal ready. They kids run to the playground equipment and some of the mothers will go watch …show more content…
I believe that if I was to do this all the time people would get really crappy at me because you need to have patience and if you cannot then you do not deserve their respect. If you were to go against the norms in a negative way where you are crossing the boundaries of people, the they will get very upset at you. When people start getting upset, they will start gossiping about you. You will be the town’s talk until you can rebuild the reputation or find a way that they can forget about you. The cost of acting out in a small town are very significant because you live in this town and people do not forget anything. Things you did ten years ago someone in town remembers.
I think that conformity depend on who you are because if you are the jokester you know that nobody takes you seriously. People know the backgrounds of you and if you do not act in a certain way they usually know why. If we were to all conform to be the exact same, we would not be able to have as much fun because all the different personalities come together make it fun to hang out. I think that conformity is important in situations that require you to act your age and be appropriate at public