SOCIAL CARE

Gender and Cultural Perspectives in Social Care



Gender and Cultural Perspectives in Social Care

 SECTION A - Introduction to Gender (Activity 1 & 2)

Gender is most commonly defined as the discrimination between male and female because every human being is either male or female (Kessler, & McKenna, 1985, p.1). It is the basic concept associated with it that, either a living being is male or female due to this every living being is to be measured according to this perspective. This is the main reason that creates social and cultural issues regarding these factors. It is also a major concern associated with this concept because all these concepts are generally based on the stereotypical thoughts about the femininity and masculinity. These debates and arguments according to the gender discrimination resulted in the inequalities, considering women as inferior, and suppression of this gender led to the various social reforms and movements (Connell, 2009, p.6-8). These women suffers abuses both physical and emotional as well as they face challenges in the male dominating society. These women also face domestic violence and sexual harassments at work place due to which there are various issues in the gender and cultural perspectives in social care that attracted the attention of various social care organizations.

ACTIVITY (1): Who am I?

 The question to understand the identity of a person is the most difficult when it comes to define in the boundaries of words. It is very important to understand the process of identification. Identification always starts from the general to specific, and when I ask myself a question, 'who am I?' the first answer I receive from my inside is that, 'I am a human being', no matter how hard I try to focus my gender, it is the first answer I received. It does not involve any gender discrimination or any other racial, social, cultural or religious discrimination. Neither has it defined any disability or physical inability that discriminates me from the society. Gender discrimination is what considered as the most serious concern. Whenever there is a question of the impact on the individual, societies, cultures and our understanding of the world, it is gender that always creates the problem and hindrances in the social and cultural matters, as well as it affects the psychology of individual. It is the main concern for every individual to look for his or her identity in this society. There are various feminist writers, activists, philosophers, researchers and academics who are mainly concern with this issue of the gender discrimination. Their primary concern is the societal and global oppression and discrimination of women. It is not only the women that suffer this oppression, but the concept of feminism also address this oppression and discrimination for boys and men and those individuals, groups and communities marginalised because of 'difference'. The discrimination is on the basis of various social, cultural, racial, ethnical and religious differences. This is the main reason that the study of feminism is very essential for the study of gender ...