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Essay on Gender and Culture
Culture is a system by which social orders can be transmitted; they can be experienced and explored. Gender difference, on the other hand starts with individual involvement. The member of the social system, the providers of the system and also the policy makers all are individuals having different set of values and beliefs. Therefore each of these individual design and implement a social structure that reflects and reproduces the patterns of social and cultural values an individual holds. Therefore society and gender can be attributed as both a consequence and a cause of social pathologies. These include several conditions like dependency behavior in both the sexes, level of poverty, number of illegal acts, unemployment level, abortion, and violent crime and most importantly discrimination and harassment. Hence gender dependency and the other pathologies of society and culture are mutually determined and are derivative of each other.
Gender generally refers to the social and cultural codes used to distinguish between what a specific society regards as ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’ qualities, characteristics, attributes or behaviors. However, the exact definition of gender differs commonly although many people are of the view that gender is for the most part socially and culturally determined. This in fact means that people are provided with a social and cultural gender that customarily is consistent with their assumed biological sex. These people are then expected to behave in accordance with their gender roles, which are defined by what is considered to be the norm in their social and cultural context.
Moreover, gender of an individual can be expressed in their physical appearance, dress, mannerisms, speech patterns, and social behaviors and interactions. The attribution of gender to a specific individual by other people is basically an unconscious categorization of a person as either being a man or a woman......
