Nick Nakashian
In my interview, I presented my interviewee with a list of personality traits and on a scale of 0-10 (10 being most feminine and 0 being most masculine) my interviewee told me were the traits fell in line with gender. Many of the traits fell toward the middle, seeing them as either masculine or feminine, and the ones that went toward one extreme were the ones you would expect. My interviewee felt it was difficult to answer these questions because as a sociology major, she knows what is expected of the answers. She felt that it would be much more interesting to perform this type of interview with someone that is not familiar with this type of survey or even this branch of sociology in order to get a more honest outcome. In the chapter this week we went through gender roles and some of the sections tried to illustrate that gender is a product of the world around us, rather than innate biology we are born with. This survey tries to show that there are some characteristics to masculinity that society says are strictly masculine and strictly feminine.
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