Socialization Homework Assignment on Killing Us Softly and A Call to Men video

1. Summarize Killing us Softly. (1-2 paragraphs)
A Call to Men challenges man to reconsider their long held beliefs about women through eliminating  domestic and sexual violence against women. Because "The Man Box teaches them otherwise", for example if a father tell his son that men do not cry, or women are our toys, and men have to be tough the socialization process continue because the chances are his son will follow the same path his Father taught him about the do's and do nots about being a man. Basically Tony Porter is saying if we can shift social norms that define manhood in our culture it will put an end to violence and discrimination against women and girls. If their is a change in men's behavior through re programing or re-education and the instruction process that promotes a healthy manhood. The Man Box will no longer exist. This is what i gathered from the video A Call to man by Tony Porter.
2. Summarize a Call to Men. (1-2 paragraphs)
In the video Killing Us Softly 3, Kilbourn the speaker talks about the impact of advertising on our society when it comes to women. The groundwork of the media not only sells products, but also sales images, values, and concepts of sexuality, and romance in women. Advertising put stress on how women need to be flawless in thin to fit in today's society especially for young girls and women. Kilbourn also states advertising portrays women as objects and animals instead of human beings. The fact is women and men inhabit or live in two different worlds. Men are not displayed nor are they judge, but women on the other hand are demoralized, judged, and put on display to the point that there is an increase in teenage pregnancy and domestic and sexual violence against women. Due to the fact that men and women will grow up retaining these stereotypes on how a women and men should act. This is what I gathered from Killing Us Softly 3, by Jane Kilbourn.
3. Explain how both video relate to our chapter on Socialization. (1-2 paragraphs)
A Call to Men and Killin Us Softly 3, is related to chapter 5, because it deals with socialization versus structure on how the gender role approach focus on learning behaviors that define as masculine and feminie. Which sterotype women from men and how we communicate with ohter and how to behave as expected which leads to sexism, sexual harassment, domestic voilence against women. With that said we are are gender socialized from the day we are born. This is how I see both videos being related to our chapter on Socialization.
4. Find one picture that represents the ways that boys and girls are socialized? (E.G. toys, TV, products etc.)

Chapter 3 Society

In the Chapter 3 Society it made me sit back and think, due to the fact that everyday society is changing, for example children are not being raised the way I was brought up, young children being bullied to there death, and the different groups that our youth want to be so much apart of even if they don't fit in. In society there's always going to be a group in which we don't belong but it is up to us to know what role we fall into in society so we can all achieve a master status. So if there was anything that I aquired from this chapter is play the role, know my role and make sure I never "lose face".

Teenage Wasteland "Suburia's Dead-End Kids

In my opinion the reading Teenage Wasteland, deals with alot of issues we discussed in Thursdays class on Chapter 2. Four teenagers from Bergenfields, New Jersey who committed suicide in a suicide pact on March 11, 1987 were labeled as "burnouts, troubled loser and druggie". Which put them in a number of cutural and society classes from, culture diversity, subculture, counterculture, culture universals, values and finally culture shock in my own opinion. Due to the fact know one every gave the four youth a chance to speak. While all sorts of associated press enjoyed moralizing about the incident, even in dealth no one still bothered to listen to what the Bergenfield's teenagers had to say. Each one of these kids felt they were missing something, not wanted or loved, and in the end they formulated a bond that martyr each of their beliefs. The fact is every child has a conflict with their parent/parents, or just a conflict in there lives. A little bit of communication goes a long way. This is what i gather from the reading Teenage Wasteland "Suburbia's Dead-End Kids".