Cohort study

In the feature article “Goodbye to 'he' and 'she' and hello to 'ze',” the author John McWhorter writes about the required change in our language, about the additional pronoun, which should be used to address the people whose gender is not equivalent with their self-image. The author claims that today’s society has reached a critical mass of people whose self-identification is not clear or they feel themselves as an opposite sex. Based on this assumption, John McWhorter assumes that soon there…

Gender is a socially constructed ideal, where the main purpose is to associate ones physical and behavioral characteristics with either being male or female. The issue is not with gender itself, but with the restrictions that gender puts on an individual and the fact that gender becomes something that the individual must strive to emulate. This ideal is used in advertisements, mainly because it is prominent and apparent in society. Advertisement agencies, such as Secret, manipulate this ideal to…

with goal-orientation, performance orientation and a learning orientation can prove valuable to groups and to the organization to increase performance through the integration of diversity. Nevertheless, there is insufficient empirical and field studies support to argue that the positive effects of diversity depend on the diversity type. We therefore may claim that diversity’s positive impact on performance covaries with informational perspective elaboration and the members’ motivation to make…

Stop raising boys and girls, just raise kids! In a perfect world, I think there would be very few differences in terms of how we parent boys and girls. Many researchers have identified fundamental imbalances between girls and boys: the structure of the brain, child development, their perceptions of the world. Take out all of that, you’ll find that boys and girls are not that different. But then enter society. From the color of the baby blankets, to the choice of toys and activities, to the types…

The image of La Virgen has been present throughout most of our lives. From our homes to the murals in our communities. Growing up in a Hispanic/ Latino community it’s the norm to see her image either in tattoos, candles, shirts, posters, cars as well as in our churches and grocery stores. Historically, speaking her image has been used politically for instance, Cesar Chavez used her image, during the Mexican War for Independence her image was used as well. The image of La Virgen has evolved…

Poe’s detective story, The Murders in Rue Morgue. In the story, the unconventional detective Dupin and the unnamed narrator solve the murder with the assistance of the police, their own private investigating, and Dupin’s intellect. When we watched The Study in Pink, similarities could be drawn between Poe’s detective, Dupin, and Doyle’s detective, Sherlock Holmes. For example, Sherlock is an unconventional detective. He also does his own private investigating and uses his intellect to solve…

Gender creates a demarcation between men and women which is explicitly evident from wearing different kinds of shoes and clothes to using separate toilets (Connell, 2006). The concept of gender begins with sex but goes beyond it. Sex is dependent on the chromosomes that are passed on from the parents to an offspring and determine whether the person is male or female. Gender, on the other hand, has little to do with the genitals and describes the level of masculinity or femininity in a person.…

Culture Culture is a thing which compound whole and which includes various things like knowledge, art, belief, moral laws, customs etc. culture is access by men as a member of the society and it is transmitted through generation to generation. Gender Gender is known as male and female typically referred with social and cultural traits rather than biological. History of Sub-Continent Sub-continent history started from Indus Valley civilization one of the oldest and first civilization of the…

Two-step flow model is a model developed by Paul Lazarsfeld and his colleagues in the 1940s. This theory states that media influence, the information we receive from the mass media, often works in two stages. Firstly, media content like facts and views are picked up by opinion leaders in different groups. They can be friends, workmates, movie stars, politicians or anyone else who is considered influential and they usually have the respect of opinion followers due to their status in social class.…

‘Power Dressing’ always seems to conjure notions of sexuality and gender, reinforcing hierarchical gender norms. The West believes that women can only express power by being seductive or through androgyny. However both the methods can be manipulated and have value under certain circumstances. But there can be another way to power dress, “dress for yourself”. Where seduction and androgyny could be a botch, dressing for yourself often succeeds. (Anonymous, 2011). 2.3 Dress for Success Most…