#6 Socialization

     The video "Killing Us Softly" by Jean Kilbourne talks about how women are portrayed as sex objects in advertising. It leads a society to think it is acceptable to commit violence against women. Focusing on only a part of a woman tends to make on think of the woman as less than human which is dehumanizing. The video was depicting many examples of women's bodies becoming beer bottles. This depiction shows the imagery of women in a men's world that is broken down to her assets with other aspects like her personality completely.
      She also mentioned that the body language of women is often shown as passive, vulnerable men and even boys are accorded dignity and strength. Men as sex objects become bigger and more powerful stark contrast against women. It serves to reinforce patriarchy and the belief that women are the weaker sex and reflect hegemony gender beliefs that we have so taken for granted in today's society. Even though all the negative implications of advertising on women, she calls for people to speak up and speak out in order to take the first step in changing the attitudes ingrained in our culture.
     
      The other video "A Call to Men" by Tony Porter talks about being a man. He emphasized that we have to begin the process of deconstructing, redefining what we have come to know as manhood. He also focuses on breaking free of the "man box" which has all the ingredients of how we define what it means to be a man.
   
      From this two video, I realized that socialization occurs throughout life and it takes place in different ways, different social contexts, guided by many different agents of socialization, or people and groups who teach us about our culture. The article "What Does It Mean to be Human? : Human Nature, Society, and Culture" talks about in order to understand human beings, it is important to know where they come from and what they have been through. Moreover, it is also important to see how social and cultural qualities interacting between the social and the cultural: Our culture arises from our social life, and the continuation of our social life depends on our culture.

      Examples of socialization pictures :

                                             Boys are socialized with playing sports together.

                                              Girls are socialized with doing activity together.