Final Paper

1) Select one aspect of culture from the list . Once you've made your selection, please delete all other options.

Gender

Week Three Assignment Worksheet

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2) Select a source to use for Part I of the paper. You will be using your textbook and the article by Miner for this part of the paper, but for this worksheet, include the source you found through your own research. Review the tutorial on Evaluating sources and enter your reference in the space below.

Reference entry in APA format:

Crapo, R. H. (2013).  Cultural anthropology  [Electronic version]. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/

Miner, H. (1956). Body ritual among the Nacirema (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. . American Anthropologist, 58(3), 503–507. Retrieved from https://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/miner.html

3) Include the reference for Part II that corresponds to the topic you’ve chosen. Copy and paste the reference entry from the table (e.g., if you chose Education, you would use the article by Jonsson for Part II).

Becker. A. E. (2004). Television, disordered eating, and young women in Fiji: Negotiating body image and identity during rapid social change. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 28(4), 533-559. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.

4) Summarize the main points from each of your sources. See this guide for help with summarizing your sources.

Summary of your source for Part I (include one to two paragraphs, totaling at least 300 words). Enter your summary in the space below.

A person’s culture will influence every aspect of their daily life: language, behavior, thought processes, decision-making. In nearly every culture, gender roles come into play, displaying cases of which gender is responsible or assigned to different tasks or titles. The article highlights the importance of communication between genders, the differences in gender roles from culture to culture and how they seem to provide the best design for each, discrimination issues, sexual differences and issues involved with those differences and ethical issues that may abound from some of these assumed roles. Mulvaney explains that communication in reference to gender roles comes with moral consequences, requiring that the communications have moral responsibility. These communications teach us how to be male or female through behavior, for example through language, as linguistic practices are related to gender differences. Women are more likely to communicate with language including emotion and feeling, whereas men tend to be more analytical in their communicating style, focusing on giving fact and raw information.

The article highlights role difference and explains that role differences should not be considered discrimination in any form. The role differences are said to be essential normality that makes up these differences at a biological difference as well as cultural normality that described what is naturally normal in a given culture. A society can be considered either masculine or feminine, depending on a few traits: A masculine society would display the emotional gender roles as very different, with men as the authoritarians with a focus on material accomplishments. The women in a masculine society would be gentle, modest, and concerned with the quality of life within the population. A population is viewed as a feminine one when the emotional roles are similar or combined, both men and women would be gentle, modest and concerned for the quality of life within the society.

Summary of your source for Part II (include one to two paragraphs, totaling at least 300 words). Enter your summary in the space below.

There has been a large amount of research that has been done about the media and youth’s behavior based on the media, mainly focusing on the population as a whole. There are still a large number of mysteries as to how an individual’s psychology is affected. The Television, disordered eating, and young women in Fiji: Negotiating body image and identity during rapid social change article explores the research explicitly completed on the introduction of television to West Fiji, and its effects on Fijian adolescent girls’ character and body image in rural Fiji in 1998. The study was conducted of a period of 3 years to a selected 30 girls, and showed that media is used both creatively and destructively by these adolescent girls. "A previously described cross-sectional, two-wave study demonstrated a dramatic increase in indicators of disordered eating during the 3 years following the introduction of broadcast television with Western pro-gramming to this community, a period which was also a time of rapid social and economic transition (Becker, 2004, p. 534)" Many subjects responded with positive attributes and characteristics being credited to television dramas, but there was also a negative impact. Weight and body shape began to be a major idea or concept amongst these girls, leading to eating disorders to control weight, as these girls saw the body shape as a social necessity in order to fit in, grow or remain popular.

5) Write a working thesis statement based on your sources. See this example .

Working Thesis Statement:

Gender roles in any society can vary in numerous ways. Such as in more modern cultures and societies, these roles become more merged and flexible whereas in cultures that rely heavily on tradition and religion they are not.