#socialroles

[gumiberry]

„A girl who cannot become a princess is doomed to become a witch” 

„A boy who cannot become an angel is doomed to become a demon” 

「お姫様になれない女の子は魔女になるしかない」

 「天使になれない男の子は悪魔になるしかない

[mymailorderbride]

Some of the traditional gender roles are still followed by foreign women.

[psychresearchtool]

Women prefer industrious and resourceful men, as mediated by societally determined social roles, and men prefer younger women. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/11/22/the-bio-social-theory-of-motivation/

[psychresearchtool]

Women prefer industrious and resourceful men, as mediated by societal determined social roles, and men prefer younger women. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/11/22/the-bio-social-theory-of-motivation/

[my-socalledblog-blog]

Dear society,

Why do you look down upon men who decide to be “stay at home” dads? Why is it important to you that breadwinner of a family has to be the man? If the breadwinner was a women would it affect the family dynamics. Personally, there is nothing wrong with having the man doing the role as the role child-rearer. But, society doesn’t accept this. However, role reversals are becoming a norm.

In the 1983 movie titled, “Mr. Mom”, it portrays a comedic film that highlights a recession that affected the lives of a modern, traditional family. It follows a family breadwinner Jack Butler as he goes through a dramatic turn of events which led to the loss of his job. After a sudden change, the wife Caroline (wife) gets a job at a tuna company leaving the responsible of the household to Jack. As the movie continue it shows the connection that Jack had with his family he depicts the importance of being a father and a role model to this children. During the movie he quotes, “it’s really easy to forget what is important, so don’t (Dragoti Mr. Mom).” This shows the realization of what a parent or the breadwinner is missing out while being just an active participant of the household. Although the movie was a comedy, it still shows the role-reversal of the family which turned out to be beneficial to the family and the advance to persuade others to take on the challenge of switching the roles and responsibility.

Although Mr.Mom was a comedic movie based in the 1980s events like this in the twenty-first century are still in effect. In a survey conducted in 2012 by pewsocialtrends.org, there was a number rising in father who were becoming stay at home dads. Just like Mr.Mom, “the economic downturn led to a change in the traditional gender roles (pewsoicaltrends.org 2014).” In society the mindset of the household puts the pressure of the status “breadwinner” upon the man because of the traditional saying, “bring home the bacon” which basically means “I work therefore I provide.” In the article stated before it goes into detail saying “that during a recent 2008 recession jobs belonging to men in construction and finance, were cut and man became unemployed, while women who were in education and health care (more demanding jobs) became the new family dynamics (pewsoicaltrends.org 2014).”

Looking down upon the stay at home dad are foolish because of the advantages that they provide for the family dynamic. Women can be the breadwinners because of the steady jobs in the family dynamic. Sometimes we just need to eliminate the status quote that is put upon the man and also the woman of the household. All in all, society needs to chill. Money is Money, regardless of who is working for it.

                                                Best regards, a person of society

[that-yung-tait-blog]

“My objection is this; though I think very well of Mrs. Jennings’ heart, she is not a woman whose society can afford us pleasure, or whose protection will give us consequence” (111)

Elinor’s is very much attuned to her emotions, however she lets societal expectations define her actions.  In her mind, she cannot visit Mrs Jennings because of her ranking in society, even though she likes her as a person.

[dovebuffy92]

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[ninja-teacher-blog]

Social roles

My aim today was a discussion on social roles, using the birth of the new Royal princess as the theme to get to it.

The warmup was a list of family words that needed unscrambling - for instance, ‘maeirdr’ (married), ‘ons’ (son), etc., taken from www.esl-galaxy.com. the former was the only one no one managed to unscramble. Once they’d been corrected, I used some ccqs to check they knew the meaning of all the relationships, such as ‘are you a wife?’, ‘are you a brother?’, ‘do you have a sister?’ etc.

Next was some dictionary work for the words we might meet in our upcoming discussion about the new princess, taken from www.eslcourses.com’s activity on Prince George’s birth. I also showed the video of the 21 gun salute given to mark the birth. Of course when I asked if they could predict what we were going to talk about then, they could.

Having talked about relationships, we then applied them to the new princess - who was her grandfather, uncle, what relationship does she have to the Queen, etc. They were all very good at naming the family (apart from F, the only male, perhaps!).

We then talked about whether her names were traditional, the fact that she’s the first female to be a successor to the throne, and what kind of roles and responsibilities she would grow up with - would she be expected to be a wife and mother? Have a career of her own? What sort of education would she have? 

From here I provided a worksheet where the students could list what they thought were the roles and responsibilities of men and women. Then they shared this with the person sitting next to them, followed by a group discussion on their thoughts. Always interesting when you have a male in the class too! We also discussed the different roles and responsibilities of brothers, husbands, mothers and daughters, and then we talked about their own roles and responsibilities - all fairly traditional in the sense of the man of the house being the main ‘bread winner’, although, apart from F who said it didn’t matter to him who earned the most, in their own situations as au pairs this was not the case! When asked, none of them wanted to have their parents living with them - although B said maybe, if they were old.  F said it would be a ‘nightmare’ - he mentioned their being Communists. B added that she was not a traditional Spanish person - her name is not traditional, her mother got married in jeans, and she, B, would like all the guests at her wedding to wear white, although traditionally only the bride wears this.

We also briefly touched on ‘political correctness’ - I expected this to be in relation to what we’d been talking about, but instead A mentioned not using the word ‘negro’ and F said in his country it was not p.c. to say that gypsies were a problem.

I was aware that although the discussion finally arrived at its destination, the pace may have been too slow, but everyone was engaged in the conversation and it was a topic that required considerable amount of thought, so I feel it was fine not to rush things and give them time to find the vocabulary and their own voices.