My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding - 1314 Words

My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding 1. The main gender roles that are described include the males job is to being the bread winner, which means he provides the financial support and the females’ job is to stay home to look after the kids and do the house work. The male is the dominant one in a family, if a female is not just married her father is dominant but when she gets married the dominance is transferred to her husband. When the father gives his daughter away at the wedding, which means he’s giving up control and dominance of his daughter to her husband. An example of the husbands having dominance is that the wife has to ask for approval to drink alcohol. The woman’s role is to dress to impress, for they can’t approach men so they try to†¦show more content†¦6. Our social status is determined by wealth, which means it depends on our family’s economic status. Economic status includes upper class, middle class (upper mid and lower mid), lower class and unemployed. Alfie left school and started making his own for he believes â€Å"a man has to make his own way in the world.† Seeing his father become so wealthy it encouraged Alfie to want the same. Alfie has hired someone to drive him from door to door to start earning his fortune. Alfie was born into wealth, he grew up in a house that had 23 rooms not including bathrooms. Whereas on the other end of the scale there is George. He lives in a small caravan and grabs every penny he can get. He goes hawking, this means he goes door to door to sell anything but is usually unsuccessful. This shows that depending on where you grow up And what type of family you’re born into you are either successful or unsuccessful. The wealthier you’re the higher the chance people will buy from you. You’re place in society is already created for you when you’re born. 7. Early friendship helps children learn how to negotiate and relate to others. Peer groups teaches us how to cooperate and socialise according to group norms. Peer groups can easily influence what someone values, knows, wears, eats and learns. Peer groups are important to socialisation for it teaches them what is right, wrong andShow MoreRelatedGypsy Culture799 Words   |  4 PagesGypsies are an ethnic group, scattered throughout Europe and North America, who maintain a nomadic way of life in industrialized societies. They migrated from Northern India in around the 14th century and pride themselves on maintaining all elements of traditional gypsy culture. The most significant differences between my life and that experienced by Gypsy adolescents are evident in their family life, gender roles, educations and traditions. The family life of gypsies is very different from myRead MoreGender Representation Of The Media1549 Words   |  7 Pagesthe Mail Online from January 2014 titled â€Å"Kate sloshed!After vodka, champagne and  £70 bottles of wine, birthday girl declares: ‘I may be 40, but I still know how to party’†. The second text I am analysing is from the Channel 4 programme â€Å"My Big Fat Gypsy Weddings† which is shown at 9pm. The episode is in series 1 called â€Å"Boys will be boys† which aired on February 8th 2011. In the Kate Moss article the text has created a realistic world within the text as it is reporting about real life events. HoweverRead MoreDiscrimination : An Understanding Of The Term Discrimination2086 Words   |  9 Pagesbecomes and outgroup in the first place. Research suggests this is because people with power and money dictate the ‘norms’ of society and all that do not fit with these suggested ‘norms’ becomes outgroups for example Muslim and Gypsy communities. It could be said that Gypsy communities, as well as being perpetuated by the media, choose to be a resilient outgroup as they do not want to conform to culture and cultural ‘norms’ and therefore become categorised as part of an outgroup that do not fit in