Essentialism

Ronda Rousey is a positive role model, demonstrating how hard work merits success. It is through her achievements and body positivity that she has empowered other women, defying all odds within a “mans” sport and making a name for herself as a professional rather than being objectified as an attractive cover girl for the sport. Gracing the cover of Men’s Fitness was a milestone for female athletes everywhere; being on that cover made Rouseys’ presence as a fighter only more dominant for she is…

Essentialism is the idea that only good theories are those that give the ultimate explanation for phenomena in terms of their underlying essences. Operationism is the idea that concepts in scientific theories must in some way be grounded in observable events that can be measured. This idea removes all feelings and intuitions of a particular individual because it is not replicable by others. Removing the feelings from an experiment allows the experiment to be tested by anyone who can carry out…

The next concept that was the five education philosophies that the book talks about. The five philosophies are Essentialism, Perennialism, Progressivism, Social reconstructionism/ critical theory, and Existentialism. After reading about this in the book I found out that my education philosophy is Essentialism. Essentialism is teaching the core knowledge that students need to be educated citizens; this knowledge is embodied in traditional academic disciplines such as history and mathematics. The…

The main goal of Christina Hughes' Key Concepts in Feminist Theory and Research is to present a "conceptual literacy" for social science students. Hughes' differential studies of equality, choice, difference, time and experience, which are some of the most crucial concepts in feminist theory. However, the author not only supplies an overview of the enormous amount of literature on feminist ideology, but also presents complex theories and stresses the significance of deconstruction in social…

always wearing the same dress which is not clean and for him t be able to wash it he lets her play sheriff once a week. This ad is not effective in my opinion I don’t see any dads relating to this because its an absurd ad that shows a lot of gender essentialism and in a way makes the dad look like he’s not made for this “women” role. in addition, the masculine imagery is not present for instance the dad seems weak in this ad, he cannot make his own daughter…

an advantage based on their biological genetics. The separation of men and women was installed and still done to this day by the adults of contemporary society. In Michael Messner’s, “Gender Ideologies, Youth Sports, and the Production of Soft Essentialism,” he conducted interviews with both female and male coaches who willingly admitted that they treat each gender differently on the playing field. A male coach will be rougher with the boys as they are supposed to be toughened up and go with a…

constructed or is subjective and if something is true then it is true regardless of a person’s culture. Therefore, I feel that post-modernism can be problematic in terms of its impact on education today. Progressivism, humanism, perennialism, and essentialism are all contemporary theories of education. Some of the positive aspects of progressivism include the teacher being seen as a facilitator of learning, hands-on educational activities, and a child centered curriculum (Knight, 2008).…

it, she discusses culture as shared meaning, where context and history give different components of a society social value. Through this process, essential qualities of a culture develop. The theory with which Powdermaker views culture, cultural essentialism, is one which uses these essential qualities as means of identification to form groups of people. This differs from Malinowski’s functionalist view, which claims that culture serves the needs of individuals rather than of larger…

The authors then propose that an individual’s gender is influenced in two ways. Firstly, through societal expectations of gender and secondly through children’s sex-segregated play (Wood & Reich, 2003; Dow & Wood, 2006). Societal expectations of gender are instructions on what it means to be male or female. These are directions received implicitly or explicitly from birth onwards by groups such as parents, peers, society and media (Wood & Reich, 2003; Johnson, 2000). Wood and Reich (2003)…

Children were taught what they needed to know with the emphasis of leaning on a teacher for direction. I considered it a stricter view of essentialism because the teaching style did leave out the students going into deeper thought. The second thing that I related to class, was the thought that a teacher needs to know how to teach a wide variety of backgrounds. This class was all kids with a…