With marriage in mind, I believe that the idea of gender and capitalist ideology have many and tremendous impacts on relationships between men and women. With the idea of gender, individuals in a marriage will feel the pressure to play the role of the gender that is identified with their sex in the respective culture. In the United States it is usually the man who is expected to fulfill the role of the primary bread winner for a family while the woman is expected to be a mother, and a wife at some point in the relationship. However, what if the man and woman are free spirits that do not conform to societies idea of a responsible man and woman and instead look to live single lives? These individuals are often ostracized because they do not conform to what society has come to see as the characteristics that any normal man or woman should exhibit. With the idea of gender, people go into relationships with a preconceived notion of what they are supposed to be rather than what they want to be.
I believe capital also has a similar effect in that it allows a person to wrongly equate the accumalation of financial capital with true success based on what society has told them. In the United States it has been said and heard countless times that the American dream is owning your first home. So, the dream is to acquire capital.
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