Simonds

Kim Simonds

In my interview, I asked my interviewee if gender was based on biological or if it was based on social. She believes that it is based on social.  My interviewee and I both agree that it is based on social. What we are taught from social institutions, especially from our parents. My interviewee claims that her parents played a different role as she was growing up. Her father was more emotional and shy than her mother. Her mother is more confrontational and stern. As the interview went on, in my interviewee's answers, there was a difference from what society claims as socially acceptable. However, while I was growing up, my family was the "traditional" norm of  what was acceptable, my father was the disciplinarian, the bread winner, the more strict parent, as where my mother was the stay at home parent, the nurturer and the care giver. I then asked the interviewee if she thinks how her family dynamics made her the person she is today. She said that she is more like her mother, more open and confrontational. After the interview, it shoes how society sees the social norm from my generation to my interviewee's generation. ( I am much older than my interviewee) Times are changing, and that is a great thing to happen.

 

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