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Gender across Generations
I will begin the assignment with the summary of my interview with my grandparents, ages 78 and 76. ... There was no television back when my grandparents were growing up, so they didn’t have any gender representation in the media. ...
Interviewing people from different generations has shown me a lot about how different generations have experienced gender. ... The concepts of socialization and social construction both interact to form the ideas that people have about gender. ... In Judith Lorber’s article, “Night to His Day”: The Social Construction of Gender, she describes gender as a social institution. “As a social institution, gender is one of the major ways that human beings organize their lives” (Lorber, p. ... This is true, and by reading the interviews conducted of the different generations, one can see the digression of the women’s place in the household to the women’s place in the workforce. ... The fact that throughout the generations men and women have both struggled with the notion of “fitting in” and feeling accepted amongst their peers’ shows that we are the same psychologically.
Approximate Word count = 1138
Approximate Pages = 4.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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