Interview someone who has lived, worked or vacationed in a country other than your own to learn more about gender norms in other cultures.
- Develop a list of questions that will help you to understand more about the gender norms and ideals of another culture.
- Conduct the Interview Ask the questions you prepared beforehand. Remember to probe for the respondent's ideas about how culture and the gender norms are related. Ask for specific examples to substantiate responses. Take notes. DO NOT include the notes or your questions in your paper.
- Write the paper:Use the interview data you gathered to compare and contrast gender ideals in another culture to those of Western societies. The paper should be five pages long. Page One should be the title page, Page Five should be the reference page. Pages Two, Three, and Four should contain your text. There should be three references, two of which may be the assigned articles for this unit.
- Paper starts with an introduction that explains the who, what, and why of the interview
- The discussion of data includes direct quotes and examples from the respondent.
- A conclusion is made about the ways that history, culture and globalization have influenced gender construction in the culture that was investigated.