Unit of society

Sexism was the most essential example of the social construction from the very beginning. I believe that starting from the primitive age; males’ roles were more of physical (power) such as hunting animals, building etc(http://www.rocketroberts.com/how_and_why/images/how_and_why_primitive_man.jpg). However, females’ roles were mainly domestic.As a result, females spent most of their time at home, raising children while males spent most of their time outside of home obtaining food to feed their families. From the very beginning, women had tendencies to rely on men. As a result, men would misuse their physical superiority which is power to rule women(violence). A basic unit of society which I think is human. A human being tends to empower one another if he/she possesses something that another doesn’t have to possess more. Therefore, the class is formed to privilege(to have more than others).
According to each person’s possessions and persons with most possessions take the highest level of the pyramid. The people in the highest level of the pyramid are the white men and they oppress others below them. In general, the most superior group according to the social construction of races is the group of whites. They are privileged and benefit from oppressing other groups of race. However, there is another division in each group; men or women. Just because men have always had more power, they classify themselves as a superior group than women. Johnson stated in her article that in order for a woman to assume real public power, she must resolve a contradiction between her culturally based identity as a woman. The most powerful a woman is under patriarchy, the more “unsexed” she becomes in the eyes of others as her female cultural identity recedes beneath the mantle of male-identifies power and the masculine images associated with it. I strongly agree with her ideas because women tend to rely on men and they are timid compared to men. They tend to be more domestic than men because they do not have the independence even though the society has changed overtime in a way of women can stand out more now. I believe that all women, as a unit of society need to gain one of the weapons of sexism that Pharr came up with, an economic power, in order to prevent oppression.