Geertz Culture Summary

Culture, what is culture? For some people, it is viewed as the ways of life. It’s the norms and values of the society. For instance, politics, economics, religions, arts, laws and others. Culture for Geertz (1973:44-5) is a “set of control mechanisms”. Those include rules, plans, and recipes for behavior governing. He also argues that culture views begin with the assumption that human thought is basically both social and public. Example, our natural habitat which is our home, but also including the market place and the town. Geertz’s interpretation of culture has the requisite implications of power and control mechanisms embedded in culture, which allow for the exploration of gender inequality.

Gender is a social separation that explains the

Numerous occasions, places have been manifested by gender inequality. Evidence proves gender discrimination happened within family, labor-market, even politico-judicial structures and also mass media. Once again, it is the domains of social interactions that might contribute to fostering gender discrimination and up-rise the violence against women. In some cases, even gender discrimination can reinforce power of individuals.

Some cultural practices include the male preference which causes the denial of the female’s access to education and suppress their opportunities in life. Thus, this leads to early marriage and onset of childbearing. In politics, males are preserved for those seating arrangement in the structures. This should not occur because women deserved those rights too as some males are not born natural leaders. Disparities in political, economic and social participation, decision-making and leadership might happen just because of gender

In terms of physical bodies, cultural practices, interests and goals, men and women are different. In addition, men and women each has their own unique skills sets and abilities. There various factors that can determine or explain these differences. The bickering of these factors would not just end in a day and it goes on and on. Hot topics also include biological factors and education.

According to (Blau, Ferber, and Winkler, 2001; Goldin, 1990), equivalent economic lives do not exist between men and women. Therefore, an ongoing concern happened as to debate the limitation of opportunities of women. Some claim that role differences should be celebrated, not stigmatized (Paglia, 1990). For some, it is difficult to change than was once thought, the male and female social interactions’ negative effects (MacKinnon, 1987; Walters, Carter, Papp, and Silverstein, 1988).

However, what would happen if sex transfer is a common practice among the society? If an experiment is carried out to investigate such practice, what would be the results?

Although the following experiment might be imaginative, there’s a concept