Strategic Studies Institute

Social institutions are a key element to the structure of societies. They consist of people who came together for a common purpose, and are part of the social order of society. They set an example of what the behavior and expectations are for individuals in society. Having these institutions help decrease chaos and increase structure. Each institution involves different things, but is important part of our daily life. Education is a major social institution that impacts the lives of many people…

Is it Really Gender Difference? Deborah Tannen, a professor of linguistics, wrote the book You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation in 1990. This book shows a chapter about Tannen’s observations of how most classroom dynamics are fundamentally male. She uses these observations of the classroom to describe how women and men behave in this environment. Her main focus being on just the two groups makes the things she observed seem very one-dimensional. Can behavior truly be…

Introduction I am interested in gender and to what extent people use it to define who they are and how they behave. This interest has grown as I have learned that it does not necessarily need to be used to define who someone is and I have become more aware of the complex theories and ideas that surround gender. I am particularly interested in how children understand gender and if they allow it to define who they are. It is widely acknowledged that children begin to create their own…

Gender is the cultural and social rendering of masculinity and femininity. Gender is thus a social structural phenomenon but is also produced, negotiated, and sustained at the level of everyday interaction. Gender does not exist on its own, independent of human interactions and relations. Typically, females are expected to exhibit feminine behaviours and males are expected to act in masculine ways. The stereotypical male is aggressive, competitive, active, instrumental, rational and strong. The…

In Bodies that Matter Judith Butler replies to the criticism of her earlier book Gender Trouble. She argues with the feminist thinkers who see the body as matter--a material body with a sexual specification. According to her the body does not exist beyond a cultural construction. It serves as a site for the feminist theory independently of such a pre-discursive definition. In her introduction she explains: For surely bodies live and die; eat and sleep; feel pain, pleasure; endure illness and…

are a set of ideas or rules about how each gender should behave. “Cross cultural studies reveal that are aware of gender roles by age two or three” (Gender and sociology) ; these gender norms begin as young as when children begin to play with toys. It is an unspoken rule that little girls play with dolls and have tea parties and little boys play with action figures and go outside to practice sports. In a recent study…

In the case study “That’s What I was Going to Do Anyway”, Dave, the restaurant owner, overhears Bill, a server, make a mistake by not following the booking confirmation procedure. What follows is a confrontation that is subjected to a self-fulfilling prophecy as a perception tool, error of polarized thinking, four misuses of language, and the C.O.N.T.R.O.L mode of talk. A “self-fulfilling prophecy” takes shape when we predict how others will behave, and we act towards them as if that were true…

A multicultural therapy perspective involves incorporating and acknowledging cultural factors so that the therapist is able to provide efficient treatment for diverse clients (Kaya, 2017). A multicultural therapist would conceptualize Meena’s case by focusing on how her cultural upbringing is currently impacting her mental health. For example, because Meena is a Muslim Indian American immigrant, a therapist following the multicultural perspective may believe that her dedication to her religion…

The case study Daddy Dearest was about a women who seemed to suffer from depression and anger issues. However, throughout the therapy themes such as loneliness and issues with her father came up often. As I was reading the case study, the clinician seemed to work well and interpret what Theresa was stating to him; however, on one occasion, the therapist stated that he had overreached when interpreting a statement Theresa had made. I realized the negative effects a statement can make to the…

Why are genders tied to colours? What about pink is girly? What makes blue so masculine? Today, we find a need to separate genders by using this colour code. This can be seen especially in toys. It can be seen that girls get all the pink and purple toys, while boys get blue and red. There is no reason to have the gender split, especially in this generation. Not everything is as black and white as we are trying to make it. Different kids are going to think different things so we need to find a…