Research Paper – How university halls reflect gender stereotype.
Introduction
The research aims to study about the relationship between university resident halls’ regulation and gender stereotype in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, all university halls do not allow a male and female live in same room. Each hall has set the time slot that to control the different gender students gathering inside the hall. Also, if staff find out a non-resident accommodate in a room of different-gender’s resident, the penalty will be more serious than the same case but happening in same gender’s room. At the same time, nowadays, although the society is being more open mind, there are also remain some taboos, such as a male and another female cannot live in same room overnight. In this research, the subject is to find out how university halls reflect and maintain these stereotypes. Therefore, first, I would analyze the regulations of difference university resident halls to study how the schools regulate student to comply with the social norms. However, are these norms suitable or should be kept? Therefore, second, I would have several in-depth interviews with different student residents to ask them how their feelings to the restrictions and thus what are their feelings as a ‘user’ of hall. Do they have enough right to use the place?
Literature Review
According to the report by inmediahk, last year, two Chinese University students published a campaign that sleeping in the outdoor of the university hall. The slogan of the campaign was about that to shout to the administration of university to pay attention to desire for sexual relation of students and let students have right to have sex in the hall. After the campaign reported by mass media, the slogan successfully caught public’s attention. However, it was not the main point of the campaign (or it was just a point) as they claimed. The reason of announcing this slogan was the hall has deep restrictions to the visitors of different gender. These regulations were influenced by the ideology of tradition
The research aims to study about the relationship between university resident halls’ regulation and gender stereotype in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, all university halls do not allow a male and female live in same room. Each hall has set the time slot that to control the different gender students gathering inside the hall. Also, if staff find out a non-resident accommodate in a room of different-gender’s resident, the penalty will be more serious than the same case but happening in same gender’s room. At the same time, nowadays, although the society is being more open mind, there are also remain some taboos, such as a male and another female cannot live in same room overnight. In this research, the subject is to find out how university halls reflect and maintain these stereotypes. Therefore, first, I would analyze the regulations of difference university resident halls to study how the schools regulate student to comply with the social norms. However, are these norms suitable or should be kept? Therefore, second, I would have several in-depth interviews with different student residents to ask them how their feelings to the restrictions and thus what are their feelings as a ‘user’ of hall. Do they have enough right to use the place?
Literature Review
According to the report by inmediahk, last year, two Chinese University students published a campaign that sleeping in the outdoor of the university hall. The slogan of the campaign was about that to shout to the administration of university to pay attention to desire for sexual relation of students and let students have right to have sex in the hall. After the campaign reported by mass media, the slogan successfully caught public’s attention. However, it was not the main point of the campaign (or it was just a point) as they claimed. The reason of announcing this slogan was the hall has deep restrictions to the visitors of different gender. These regulations were influenced by the ideology of tradition