Gender

I was always very interested in the gender courses that I took as a sociology major because the topics discussed seemed so basic, but yet unnoticed. I always found the power that we have as a society in terms of gender fascinating. Individuals are born as either one sex or the other but their "gender" is something that they are socially taught and brought into. I have always found this so interesting because we automatically have certain expectations for males and females, and treat them as such. Therefore we continue this cycle of gender and give a very strict definition of what it means to be male or female.