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When analyzing gender roles in our age today, we are less likely to see the striking differences in the characteristics of men and women as they were portrayed let's say thirty years ago. However, a strong sense of Androcentricity still remains in not only our society but is stronger than ever in other societies around the world. From the beginning of time, from what we've learned in textbooks, television, and other sources of media, of …

…honors, even to the point where some researchers in fields such as Sociology limit their research strictly to the lives of women. Such research is labeled as "feminist" and in the field of sociology is known as gynocentricity, or seeing the world from a female perspective. But as stated in Macionis' Sociology textbook, in a society so male-dominated as our own there is less chance that this type of research would arise on frequent occasions.