Stereotypes in Society Despite the overall acknowledgement that change needs to take place, society still identifies people according to constructed stereotypes. In the western culture we tend to associate people with being masculine or feminine and if we cross over the boundaries set up for our sex then we are going against the norm. We put pressures on each sex to identify with certain characteristics. It's as if someone set down one day and decided …showed first 75 words of 3650 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3650 total…stereotypes within the home, the children always have to leave the house and hear the prejudices of others. No matter how frustrated we get, the only thing we can do is try to change things in our families and hope that others will do the same. It's a social movement that hopes to change how society treats its members. Only once the social movement is widely accepted and practiced can we hope for a change.