Final Summary/ Reaction

This survey was very interesting to me! 20 people completed my survey and the results were basically what i expected. For example, the first question was," If you found out someone was having a baby shower and they did not know the sex of the baby, what colors would you expect the color scheme to be?" I assumed that most of the answers would be pink and blue but 12 people said green and yellow. Something else that surprised me was i asked what toys do girls play with and it was a free response, every single person said dolls. I was so surprised that someone did not say that, or said something different. I think these results will prove my hypothesis that children's stereotypes are formed by the environment that they grow up in.

Week 3 Blog

I have finalized my survey and i am getting ready to give it out. I made it on google docs so I might just share the link on my twitter to make sure I get a very wide spectrum of results. The survey has many different types of questions and i think that the results will be very interesting. I asked questions about jobs, colors, toys and even clothing. I think that from the answers I get from these questions, I will be able to prove my theory that the stereotypes children have come from the environment they grow up in.

Week 2 Blog

I have decided that for my project i am going to conduct a survey. In the survey i am going to ask questions about common things that people associate with different genders. I will ask about gender roles, jobs, colors and even clothing. I will give my survey out to 20 different people. The age group will range from 13-58. I think that the answers from my survey will show how people really develop into who they are because of the people they grow up with and the environment in which they grow up. I think that if I survey people from all different age groups they will all respond differently. Especially when parents show strong gender stereotypes there children will be raised with the same gender stereotypes. I think that this survey will show very interesting results.  

Week 1 Assignment

The method i choose to use was survey. In my last blog i conducted a survey about colors and i found the results to be very interesting. I think that if i become a little more creative in the topic of the survey, i will find that my topic is more interesting than i already think that it is. I think that if i conduct my survey in a different manor this time around i will get very different results. If i ask people from many different places the same questions i think the results will change significantly.

Survey says...

This week i went around and asked members of my friends and family about colors. I know colors are something that is very broad but the colors that people associate certain things with is very interesting to me. First I asked what their favorite color was; starting with the girls : 3 said pink, 2 said purple, 1 said green and 4 said blue; then the boys: 2 said red, 1 said green 3 said pink 2 said orange and 2 said blue. I found this very interesting. Usually when people think about girls, they automatically think pink, but in my survey, the most common color was blue. Similarly, when people think of boys they think of darker colors such as blue and green, but the same number of boys said that pink was their favorite color as did the girls. Then i asked the group collectively what color they think of when they think about boys 80 percent said blue, 10 percent said green and 10 percent said red. I did the same thing for girls with the group, 70 percent said pink, 10 percent said purple, 15 percent said yellow and 5 percent said green.

When people associate certain colors with a certain gender it is an example of a gender stereotype. They are stereotyping that specific gender with a color they think best describes that gender. In my survey i found the results to be very interesting. The information was almost completely flipped from what the majority of the group thought. I think that in today's society the colors are not as closely related as they used to be. For example when i was a baby my mom painted my room yellow because she did not know if i was going to be a boy or a girl but when i came she added a lot of pink things to my room. I think if i was born 10 years later my room would look very different the more neutral colors are being used for babies rooms instead of pink and blue, people are choosing green or yellow. I learned a lot doing this survey and i thought my results were very interesting.

Gender Stereotypes

This article is about the effect gender stereotypes has on children epically on television. Advertisers use negative stereotypes in commericals and tv shows and those stereotypes sometimes rub off on the audience that is watching the show or commercials. There is not much research that has gone into studying the effects of such stereotypes on children but it has been proven that it is only the negative stereotypes that stick with them. Although, the way that the media has portrayed women and men has changed a lot in since the past. The women have always been the ones to be staying at home in these very elaborate gowns (early 1900) but now they are out in the world working and keeping up with things that they would never be expected to do.

Women now have so much responsibility and i think the way the media portrays them, is actually positive in some ways. In the past, the thought of a single mother would never exist. Women were always relying on a man for all the financial support, and now women support themselves and there children on their own. However, I do not think it is right that certain people are targeted through certain commercials. Seniors being targeted in commercials for a reverse mortgage, or targeting the lower class in cheap beer commercials. I think that the media has a way of twisting stereotypes for there economic advantage.
Stereotypes in Advertising

Oxy Clean Commericial

While I was watching TV with my little cousins last weekend I saw this commercial come on the the Disney channel. In the opening scenes of the commercial, there is an overhead camera shot of a large group of people. The promoter says "see why all people trust oxy clean." When i was watching this with my little cousins one of them turned to me and said "wow Cristina look they are all girls!" She is 7 and she caught onto the little/ yet very important detail. This commercial really made me think. We sat down at the table and had a conversation about this commercial. There was one 12 year old boy and one 7 year old girl sitting with me at the table. The boy said to me " I think that there are all women because the moms are the ones who do the laundry."

This was very shocking to me because my cousin has very good manners and is very polite and yet he still said that women are the ones who do the laundry. I think by playing this commercial on the Disney channel was aimed at moms and there children watching TV together at night. My younger cousin brought up a very good point though, she said," what happens if you don't have a mom?" I didn't know how to answer her question so i just told her that if you don't have a mom your dad would pick up the extra slack.The boy laughed at her and said " I would never do laundry, i would make a girl do it, its what they are supposed to do." The stereotypes for women are portrayed very heavily on television and i think when children watch tv, they catch on to theses stereotypes and enforce them in their every day lives.