Social Factors Shaping Personality

Picture this, a girl has finally graduated college and was offered a job to become a computer engineer. She heads to work with a good mood. All she wants to do is get to know her colleagues. She arrives at work and instantly she hears mutters saying, “What is SHE doing here? Women don’t belong in this job." They say this even though she is just as capable as they are when it comes to working there. This is an example of a gender stereotype that women can’t work in STEM fields. The fact that women are being discriminated from jobs that involve science, math, technology, and engineering proves to society that men are "more capable" at higher level careers. This stereotype is a major issue in society. This ongoing process of rejecting someone

Women have come a long way throughout history from the right to vote to be able to work in the workplace. They have faced a lot of discrimination but have been able to fight through each situation, but yet there are disparities between men and women in the workplace from the pay gap to positions. But why are these disparities present? Katty Kay and Clarie Shipman, writers of the article The Confidence Gap, believe the answer is confidence. This article argues that the reason why women do not pursue higher positions is due to low confidence through a pathos appeal directed at the audience, an ethos appeal given by the credibility of the authors, and a logos appeal by a variety of statistics and studies.

It is disputed whether nurture or nature is more dominant in forging a person’s identity. Whether a person is happy or sad, kind or cruel, smart or unintelligent is based on their genetics or the environment around them. Of course, both factor into the equation, but one does more so than the other: while people can have genetic differences, the way that they are raised is far more influential on their personalities.

Getting familiar with some of the concepts in chapter ten was new for me. I didn 't really know any of the information in chapter ten at all. I learned a lot in the chapter about a wide range of topics. What I learned will better help me understand people on a daily basis.

Every individual goes through different experiences that mold them into who they are. The combination of their genetic makeup, the environment in which an individual is exposed to, peers, culture, and many other factors determine who they are as an individual (Twenge & Campbell, 2016). This is also what is considered to be an individual’s personality. It is the greatest influence on how an individual will react in any given situation; not everyone will react the same in any situation. Personality is the recurring patterns of thoughts, behaviors, and feelings that can be seen across all situations and time (Twenge & Campbell, 2016, p. 6). If an individual’s personality includes being highly extraverted, then reactions and responses should be

Society has attributed personality characteristics to an individual’s identity but this should not be accounted for in court cases because discrimination is often overlooked when a discussion of characteristics arises as seen in the case of EEOC v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1986). In EEOC v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., Sears made a convincing argument about men and women’s fundamentally different employments interests and values. This led EEOC to lose its case, which argued women were being discriminated against due to the lack of women working in commission sales. Women were attributed characteristics of not being interested in working at night, not being competitive, and not willing to take risks. These attributes would lead the district court to

Personality is the way one behaves, thinks and feels. Theorists are interested to learn what shapes personality, what causes one to behave, think and feel the way one does. Different theorists have different beliefs in what causes these individual differences. These individual differences can be split into two categories, nature and nurture. Nature would be environment while nature would be the brain and the genes, also known as genotype. Genotypes would form phenotypes such as the physical appearance of one. Hans Eysenck believes that personalities are determined by genes. On the other hand, Jeffrey A. Gray believes that personality is because of the brain. A case study regarding an unfortunate accident involving a metal rod that pierced through the skull resulting in a change of personality. Could personality really be affected by the brain? This research essay would focus in the different causes of individual differences in personality.

Some say personalities are predetermined for us before we even take our first breath. One study says, "So while I think your parents influence is definitely a factor in how you perceive your world, I also believe it depends on our chemical and genetic combinations too". Pointing out

One of the major factors influencing the progress women experience in their career advancement stems from the deep cultural-infused gender stereotypes associated

A personality is a combination characteristics or qualities that form an individual 's distinctive character (McLeod, 2014). A person’s personality is defined by habitual behaviors, with cognitive and emotional patterns that factor into the biological and environmental factors. Then there are individuals with personality a disorder meaning that everyone’s disorder where some ones personality is abnormal a person who has abnormal behavior has a hard time functioning within society. Biologically individuals sometime

Most people believe the hypotheses is right, and teachers also follow this rule to educate their students. However, in the article, “Does Gender Matter”, Michael Kimmel explains the hypotheses is wrong. The society assume that women are innately less able than men, but there is no scientific support. Women are repeatedly told they are less good, their self-confidence falls and their ambitions dim. Kimmel believes that the confidence is the most important issue for a man to be successful whereas

Psychologist Allport complied a list of 4500 traits, which was reduced to 35 traits by Cattell and eventually came up with the five essential factors through the factor analysis studies that became the 'Big Five Personality Traits'. The 'Big Five Personality Traits', also known as five-factor model, is a broader way to describe the human behavior. The five factors include: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeable and neuroticism. Each factor has been determined by

Competition between the genders has existed since the beginning of time. A common misconception is that we have to compete. Although competition is prevalent, there is a need for genders to be equal. Competition is human nature it seems. How do we not compete with one another but work with one other? Gender competition can ease up if we realize gender roles, gender-typing, and culture are major influences.

Personality, in the word itself, what I could see is the word personal. I would define personality as something very personal to oneself, as it determined what kind of person I will be. Personality is sometimes a term I used to rationalize my behaviour, and I believe most of us do. Whenever someone judged us from what we do, the statement “I am who I am, and this is my personality” is frequently being used by us human beings. However, personality is not something that can be understand so easily. There are plenty of personality theories that can help us to be clearer of who we are. In this assignment, I researched for three different theories to help me determine what kind of personality I have.

This is an individual assignment. This assignment is for KMC1093 Personality Development course in order to pass the course. First of all, personality development is associated with psychological aspects which are included cognitive, behaviour and emotion. It is believed that everybody has their own way to interacting with the other people and with their social environment. There are three components in the nature of personality. The first component stated that the personality reflects individual differences. Every individual have its own characteristics. Second component is a statement that personality is consistent and enduring, and the last component claimed that personality can change. There are many factors can influence the personality development which are heredity, parental characteristic, person’s cohort, birth order, normative age-graded influences, normative history-graded influences, non-normative life events, culture, and normative socio cultural-graded influences.