...claimed to be a substantial problem in workplaces across America. New York Times writer and author of the article “The Myth Of Male Decline”, Stephanie Coontz, introduces the idea that gender equality has occurred in high-end paying jobs, but has been on the decline in some aspects of the workplace. Although there is a common held idea that men and women alike are both beginning to receive the same job opportunities, pay , and so on, Coontz argues that this is not the case. In fact, she states, “Women’s real wages have been rising for decades… But women’s wages started from a much lower base, artificially held down by discrimination”(Coontz).The long held notion that women have been receiving the necessary equalities of men in the workplace seems to be evidently lacking basis. Coontz offers supporting evidence that many would have not even considered in our modern era. Many agree that women should...
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...In the article,” For Better, For Worse: Marriage Means Something Different Now” Stephanie Coontz explains in the article how marriages are changing and is affecting personal lives. Marriages are not the same from back in the day. When men and women were joined together in marriage that was the final picture, sometimes they didn’t get to choose if they wanted to marry, some were just born into it. People now have the choice to get married, they base it upon if they love each other. Now, since divorce is a part of this generation, men and women take it to an advantage and decide to get a divorce without trying to fix their problems or if they are starting to fall out of love. In a relationship there will be many ups and downs, there is always going to be problems that will get in the way, causing arguments and make you think the feelings you have for your spouse is changing, or doubting how you feel, but you will just have to work it out. Marriage isn't easy, but it's worth it. In moderate day, women are becoming more independent and choosing their own paths and sometimes marriage isn’t in the picture. By the 1970’s women in America were able to support themselves if they...
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...Peer Mentor Log Date | Time | | 12-1 | Work with Chen on his English worked 9/30/13 | 1-3 | Worked with Sam on his Democracy in America Work 9/30/13 | 3-4 | Worked with group of jose and travis on accounting homework 9/30/13 | Date | Time | | | Worked with Jasmine Dixon on her studying skills in the library 2/4/13 | 1:20-2:00 | Worked with Stephanie Posey on her Religion class in the library 2/5/13 | 3:30- 4:30 | Worked with Alaa on his English paper, peer edit his paper in the library 2/6/13 | 12:30-2:00 Worked with Jose on his English grammar skills in the library 2/7/13 Date | 3:30-4:20 | Worked with jasmine Dixon on her time management skill in the library 2/11/13 | 12:20-2:00 | Helped Stephanie study for her test on philosophy outside st. Edwards hall 2/12/13 | 1:30-2:20 | Worked with Alaa on his English vocabulary in the library 2/13/13 | 3:30-4:20 | Met with jose to work on his English class and edit his paper 2/14/13 | Date | 3:30-4:20 | Helped Hussam Babge on his English course and edited his paper in the library 2/15/13 | 1:30-2:20 | Worked with Jasmine Dixon on her preparation skills in the library 2/18/13 | 12:30- 2:00 | Helped Stephaine study for her religion test in the library 2/19/13 | 3:20-4:30 | Worked with Hussam babge on his English skills in the library 2/20/13 | | | | | Date | | | | | | | | | Date | | | | | | | | | Date | |...
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...2015 A Rhetorical Analysis of What We Really Miss About The 1950s In Stephanie Coontz essay "What We Really Miss About the 1950's" she makes an interesting analysis of what we think we miss about past decades. In the essay Stephanie Coontz talks about the history and progress of family and discuses in depth the movement of the family from the 1920s to the 1970s. She begins her argument by stating some reasons why the, “nostalgia for the 1950s” exists. Coontz uses the logos appeal towards her audience with statistics, facts and numbers to explain why the 1950s was such a great decade. She uses great evidence to compare the 1950s to past declares to persuade you that the 1950s is what we really miss. Stephanie Coontz’s essay “What We Really Miss About the 1950s”, she uses the persuasive appeal logos throughout her essay. By using the logos appeal in Cootnz’s essay it strengthens the argument about the 1950’s. Coontz uses facts about how in the 1930s the stock market crashed and the great depression. She compares the 1930’s to the 1950’s by providing more data that murder rates were higher in 1933 than the 1950s. Coontz also explains by using statistics that ninety percent of all households in the United States were families, in comparison with the seventy one percent by the 1990’s. She continues to provide facts and data to show the audience that the 1950s was better than any other decade. Stephanie Coontz talks about how in a poll done by the Knight-Ridder news agency in 1996...
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...Running Head: The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love Summary of: The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love English 1102 Mrs. Charleston February 3, 2011 In “The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love.” Stephanie Coontz describes marriage as an “institution that brings together two people.” she shares the point that “marriage should be based on intense, profound love and a couple should maintain their ardor until death do them part” (p. 378). Coontz talks about the history behind marriage. People chose their partners based on “something as fragile and irrational as love” before they focus on their sexual, intimate, and altruistic desires. (p.378) Coontz points out that may cultures view marriage differently. Some cultures thought that being truly in love married was not capable when married. Many different societies believe that couples should not put their feeling for their spouse above certain things. Falling in love before marriage was looked upon as insanity, corrupting of the mind. French essayists Montaigne wrote that “any man who was in love with his wife was a man so dull that no one else could love him.” (p.379) Royalty married for political reasons opposed to love. Marriage was looked beyond intimacy and love. Lower and middle class people lived this way as well. People believed that showing affection to you wife was unseemly.” To love your wife with excessive ardor was also considered to be adulterous. Too much love and intimacy between a husband and wife was...
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...where we can marry family members, etc. “Will Your Marriage Last?” by Aviva Patz * It doesn’t really point on what marriage is exactly, just why it is either successful or a failure. “The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love” by Stephanie Coontz * Marriage used to be strictly for the sake of reproducing and having good reputation in the social aspects of old communities, but maybe it should be more about love than that? “Sacred Rite or Civil Right?” by Howard Moody * Marriage is love, legal documentation is no more than a legal document and a signature. The vows are what mean the most, marry who you love. 2. What are reasons people get married? “For Gay Marriage” by Andrew Sullivan * If you are in love with someone, and of age to know that you are in love with them, then marriage is an option. “Against Gay Marriage” by William Bennett * People get married because they love each other if it is real, and for attention if it is gay is basically what Bennett hints around at in his article. “Will Your Marriage Last?” by Aviva Patz * "People feel they have to find a way to get there and one way is to force it, even if it only works for the time being" “The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love” by Stephanie Coontz * She talks about the ancient days and olden times where as “love” was the last reason that one should get married and was seem as...
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...Hyewon Nam Professor Amy Goldman GPS Writing Workshop Section010 3:15PM 13 March, 2014 Reckoning with Research—Final Draft The Double-sided Blade: Gender Stereotype Often times, the word “gender discrimination” brings out the image as women being the victims and men as the attackers. Such notion is proven by the simple fact that the word “feminism” is known and used every day while “masculinism” is not. In this context, Betty Friedan, author of the Feminine Mystique, raises question on stereotypes based on gender. She fiercely argues for the housewives whose lives are mainly comprised of being mothers and housewives. Freidan expresses her central issue by asking the question “these women have no dreams of career, no visions of a world larger than the home; their only ambition, their only dream is realized [as mothers and housewives]. But were they fulfilled women?” (Friedan, 225). Friedan’s text is a representation of people’s perception of gender discrimination—women kept in households with their world revolving around domestic matters rather than the world outside of their homes. Although it is true that women did and still do suffer these tilted standards of society, a more holistic view should be sought in terms of acknowledging the suffering of both genders. Betty Friedan, in her writing The Feminine Mystique, identifies how gender stereotypes have confined women by examining the white, American, middle-class housewives in the suburbs. The time frame is limited...
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...the articles “Love in the age of Like” by Aziz Ansari and “The Origins of Modern Divorce” by Stephanie Coontz, the authors address the topic of relationship and the effects of the society we live in. Ansari’s article focus primarily on social media and how that has affected modern dating. As well as the mindset of men and women in modern times. Coontz’s article on the other hand focuses primarily on divorce and the history behind divorce. How divorce has change over time to explain why statistically divorce rates are so high comparable to 100 years ago and even further. Coontz’s article offers statistics and is mainly a logical appeal, while Ansari’s article offers statistics and appeals primarily to emotion. Both authors do a fantastic job and proving their...
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...A summary about Marriage In the essay “The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love,” Stephanie Coontz examines the history of marriage around the world and describes its transformation from a necessity for the prosperity of many past societies, to becoming a foundation for personal fulfillment and happiness in terms of a short relationship with an individual of the opposite sex. Coontz analysis that throughout the history of mankind, marriage has been a tool of survival and norm in various cultures. Coontz describes the notion that Romantic love played little or no part in a marriage and was even discouraged in few past societies. Even today in some cultures monogamy and love are not seen as a necessary part of a marriage yet seeking sexual and emotional satisfaction is the norm and is expected after just a few encounters. Modern western cultures believe in the dream of “Happily ever after” marketed to us nonstop in the media. It is said that “married couples should be best friends, sharing their most intimate feelings and secrets. They should express affection openly but also talk candidly about problems, and they should be sexually faithful to each other.” Emotional happiness seems the ultimate goal. A happy marriage is defined differently throughout the world, but only recently have the emotional and sexual needs of the partners become most popular. This idea seems exotic and exceptional when compared against a historical world view. It gives great distinction about the beliefs...
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...The 50’s was a start of what has developed into our modern day and age. This was the beginning of America stripping the conservative life and moving toward a progressive modern future. It was a time when teenagers stored their church clothes and put on their leather jackets with hair gel. Jody Pennington and J. Ronald Oakley both expressed on their different views of juvenile delinquency and rebellious behavior in the youths of the 50’s. Stephanie Coontz, however, examined family life in the 50’s and how they were not like the perfect families shown in the media during that time. The 50’s were a rise of leisure time which in essence was the cause of change in life for American families. In Jody Pennington’s discussion from Don’t Knock the Rock: Race, Business, and Society in the Rise of Rock and Roll, he argued that Rock and Roll in the 50’s along with the new forms of consumerism started a rebellious act amongst the youth during this time. He introduces his argument stating that Rock and Roll was a movement with teenagers playing their music loudly and the parents yelling for them to turn it down. He furthermore explains his argument by stating that Rock and Roll was perfect...
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...television shows of the 1950s may not have shown violence to boys but it shows that subordination of women and hyper-masculinity are normal, which is the exact mindset that can lead to violent tendencies. The gender roles presented in the popular culture of the 1950s, if viewed enough by young boys, could have led to the subordination and violence against women, even in the home. While hyper-masculinity correlates with violent behaviors, there is also support for the same. correlative between these rigid gender roles and violence against women, specifically. Stephanie Coontz describes the households of the 1950s in her book titled The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. She describes the rates of unhappy marriages that would likely have led to divorce, had that option been acceptable and accessible at the time, and she presents us with shocking information about abuse in 1950s households. Coontz theorizes that the pressure for perfection in the postwar home was too much pressure for each family member to handle and that this time period brought about sexual abuse, incest, alcoholism, and wife...
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...Can Love Alone Make a Marriage Last Forever? What if every culture had the same expectations on the ideal marriage and if it was going to last? Many studies have been done over the years as to if a marriage is going to last and what the requirements are for getting married. In “Will Your Marriage Last” by Aviva Patz, she observed through different studies that the first two years of marriage can determine if your marriage will last or not. Also in Stephanie Coontz’ article, “The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love” she suggests that marrying for the sole reason of love could lead up to divorce. I believe that love should be a part of a successful marriage but not the main reason, as supported by Coontz and Patz. Many young couples or couples in general have this ideal of marriage and when it doesn’t meet up to what they expected, the relationship starts to go downhill. The many observations of Ted Huston suggest the length of your courtship before marriage is a big factor in if your marriage will be successful or not. When you are in the beginning of a relationship you are experiencing this romantic bliss and have expectations that your entire marriage will stay in this honeymoon phase, but once things start settling down you will be faced with many challenges you did not see arising. According to Huston, “couples are most vulnerable to disillusionment when their courtship is brief” (Patz 301). After reading about Huston’s observations, I have started to look at my marriage...
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...Web. 4 Jan. 2015. • Coontz, Stephanie. "Women Have Come a Long Way, but Have a Far Way to Go." Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star. 10 Mar. 2014: n.p. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 15 Dec. 2014. • Gecker, Jocelyn, and Thanyarat Doksone. "In Thailand Prime Time, Rape Seen As Part of Love." Los Angeles Times. 19 Oct. 2014: A.4. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 15 Dec. 2014. • "How We Teach Our Kids That Women Are Liars - Role Reboot." Role Reboot. 18 Nov. 2013. Web. 4 Jan. 2015. • "The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration Quotes." By Vera Nazarian. Web. 4 Jan. 2015. • Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. Champaign, Ill.: Project Gutenberg, 199....
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...Debunking the Modern Family Myth According to Stephanie Coontz in “What We Really Miss About The 1950’s”, the 1950’s were symbolic in terms of the nuclear American family. The “typical” nuclear American family structure consisted of an unemployed stay-at-home mom, working dad, a child or two, and a suburban home. In her article, she refers to the 1950’s as being the optimal time period for family’s where the ideology in television shows such as “Father Knows Best” and “Leave It To Beaver” was not just a depiction of how life was supposed to be lived, but an accurate portrayal of how life actually was back then. Today, the once commonly known family structure has been modified and tweaked and the standard image of a modern day family is no longer exactly how it looked 60 years ago. Twenty-first century culture has opened the door for many new views including the redefining of the typical structure of a family; in today’s world the model family is no longer just between a male and a female but also includes homosexual couples (Male/Male or Female/Female). Before complying with the definition of how the traditional family should be, we must be able to first define what a marriage truly is. Marriage as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary is “the intimate or close union of two individuals”, though the definition seems stable enough it isn’t the only definition of marriage and the idea of marriage itself is actually quite wide spread as we see in Evan Wolfson’s “What is Marriage...
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...The Influence of Social Institutions: Family, Religion and Education Elizabeth Bouer SOC/100 May 30, 2016 Dr. Karly Way Schauwecker The Influence of Social Institutions: Family, Religion and Education Early philosopher and originator of Functionalism theory, Herbert Spence (1820-1903), compared parallels between the function of the human anatomy and society. “He argued that just as the various organs of the body work together to keep the body functioning, the various parts of society work together to keep society functioning” (OpenStax CNX, 2015, p.15 ). Just as the body has organs that help it to exist and thrive, society also has key components which attribute to its overall success. These essential parts of the successful and fluid existence of a society are referred to as social institutions. Social institutions are structures of principles or conducts, focused on achieving social needs. Six critically significant, outlines of social institutions are: government, education, family, healthcare, religion and the economy (CNX, 2015). Government has its benefits, in that it helps to structure, regulate and organize a society. Healthcare is an essential component, not only for the continuity of existence, but as well as for continuance of reaching full/highest human potential. The economy (more specifically its success), is a critical element for a society’s ability to endure, succeed and grow. However, for many, out of the six institutions,...
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