Sex in our soicety
April Golyar Sociology #3 !0/25/03 The sex roles or our society have been changing from the dawn of time. What society feels to be “acceptable” in the eyes of the sexes, has changed due to media, the times, technological advances, and what a society as a whole feels necessary to survive and prosper. In the U.S, the sex roles have changed from what was perceived as acceptable in the 1950’s, to the present day America. Society shifted from a family oriented way of thinking, to a more liberal, loose fitting definition of family. In the 1950’s, the U.S went through major shifts in the various sex roles held by both men and women. With the war going on, and the sudden decrease of men in and around the work force, women were called upon to do, what was once thought to be only work acceptable for a man to uphold.