Gender Roles In Ethnography

Ethnography a branch of anthropology is the study of a certain culture from its origin. This is primarily relates cultures and how those cultures function as a whole. Take for example, indigenous Australian members of groups which exist in Australia and its surrounding islands. Most of These tribes still practice their culture as they did hundreds of years ago. Ethnography basically takes this aspect of Australia and tries to explore it and tries to make connections to the modern day society. Now the main difference between a culture in Australia and its surrounding islands is that this paper is being written about gendered spaces around campus in Eastern Michigan University. However, culture makes a lot of difference on how the society takes genders. Most of the time in our society culture is what links us to think about genders and their roles. Culture has a huge role in the way we see certain males and females around the world. Over the years we have stopped trying to see people as different genders, but there are some …show more content…
In this center you can find pool clubs, tennis tables’ indoor track Aerobic, fitness room and much more. The floors that I observed were the 1st and second floor. In the first floor of the gym when you enter you have to give your id card at the front desk for them to swipe it for you. This way a person is entering as an EMU student or staff. On the first floor I noticed there was a game station where there were two male playing a game and in the boxing area was also occupied by men. After sitting there for a while I did not notice any females approaching any of these equipment’s. So I decided to follow a female and ended up at the 4th floor. The fourth floor was more of a fitness room and also had the indoor track. I saw that more females were jogging on the track or were using the treadmill and more men were using the heavier machines to work