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Throughout the years, men's and women's behaviors have been defined with certain specific characteristics that make a difference between them. Moreover, these kinds of distinctions have been made according to scientific research in human mental and biological functions and responses to stimuli. However, nowadays there have emerged some kinds of male and female behavioral stereotypes created by society. In fact, if men and women don't follow this sort of social conceptions, they won't be part of society. Thus, it can be seen that social stereotypes of masculinity and feminity, not male and female biology, control human behavior.
Society has made a categorization of sexes. Generally, men are seen as the stronger sex, so they have certain characteristics such as aggressiveness, intelligence, ability to make decisions and skillful for any kind of activity (playing basketball, driving, working, and so on). On the other hand, women are considered as the weaker sex, so they are defined as sentimental, skillful at home cleaning, sensitive, tender and so on. These kinds of characterizations are the social stereotypes that have to be followed by each gender.
Social behaviors are supposed to be due to hormonal responses in human biological functions, but most of the time it doesn't happen. For example, if a man is in an elegant place with very many people, and suddenly someone attacks ...
has been defined by Rober Norton as "the way one verbally, nonverbally, and para verbally interacts to signal how literal meaning should be taken, interpreted, filtered, or understood"(1996.p.229) In this, Norton has identified nine communicator styles. A persons style may be dominant, dramatic, contentious, animated ,impression leaving, relaxed,...
Almost everyone would like to have racial equality in the world today. It is often said that all people have been created equally. That is true, however sometimes not everybody is treated equally. In society, blacks are still struggling for racial equality. We should note that in the 1940'1, blacks were not considered equal to the whites. We...
Feminism is defined as an organized activity on behalf of women?s rights and interests. To me, this statement encompasses all women; regardless of race, class, ethnicity, sexual preference, age or religion. While I agree that these factors do influence and shape a woman?s individual experiences, I believe that women everywhere ar...
The use of living animals is an important way to solve a medical problem. Researchers continually seek other models to understand the human organism, study disease processes, and test new therapies. In seeking quicker and not so expensive ways to look for biological information that can be applied to human disease, scientists sometimes study simpl...
The women of Iraq have had a life style like no other women in the world. Their rights had been violated for a number of years and still are, but as the 20th century is aproaching, there are some changes in the lifestyles of women that aren't as harsh as they were before. During the 1960's the peasant women and urban housewife were treated as mere...
