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Gender and Society
Gender and Society final
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Women's & Gender Studies
Undergraduate 2
04/09/2008

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gender is something you _ _
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DO
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"real men" need to have a Tough Guise otherwise they'll be _______
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sanctioned
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violent masculinity is seen as a
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norm
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images of men are getting bigger or smaller?
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bigger
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Backlash against social movements because:
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dominant, white, heterosexual masculinity is being challenged
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doing gender definition
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gender is produced through interactions with others and through the interpretations they have of certain actions and appearances
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Reasons for the Wage Gap: 6
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  1. Human Capital Theory
  2. occupational segregation
  3. penalty of motherhood
  4. men's work evaluated higher than women's
  5. statistical discrimination
  6. gender stereotype of men as Breadwinners
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Conversation Analysis' 5 parts:
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turn taking

organization

sequences of actions

repair patterns

INTERRUPTIONS 

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breaching experiments:
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break culturally scripted actions and see how others react
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Rapport talk
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women: talk WITH others, cooperative
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Report talk
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men: independence and status through talk
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Tannen's study men and women's talk
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males: use convo to negotiate status and independence

Women: frienships, establish closeness 

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Anderson and Leaper's findings
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men interrupt a little more, but its very close
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Subtle Gender Discrimination:4
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  1. Condescending Chivalry: courteous behavior that treats women as subordinates
  2. Supportive Discouragement: mixed messages  about abilities/intelligence/accomplishments
  3. Friendly Harassment: sexually oriented behavior that creates discomfort
  4. Radiant Devaluation: a female's worth is measured in beauty or "mom" actions
     
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Pre WW2--> WW2 --> Post WW2

labor participation

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Single women--> 6.5 mil. women join --> 2 mil. women fired,  resegregated into female-dominated jobs
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what campaign urged women to enter labor force?
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Government propaganda campaign
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Which Gender? 

Touch, paralinquistics, kinesics- more used

space is closer 

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women
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A reason why some women left labor force?
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Baby Boom
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Men and women's wages unequal is the ___ ___
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wage gap
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Wage gap convergence due to:
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DECREASE in men's wages
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women earn _ _ cents to a dollar
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77 cents
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Human Capital Theory on Wage Gap
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skills, education, and training = more money

men are more likely to have these things 

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Occupational segregation defn':
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some jobs are dominated by men and others by women.
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Penalty of Motherhood defn':
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women experience 7% salary drop per child because they lose job experience, less productive at work
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women need _ times the amound of accomplishments than men.
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2
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Statistical discrimination defn':
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men are more productive than women
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men get paid more because of their position as _____
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breadwinner
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glass ceiling
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women can't break through to the upper echelons of management
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definition of family is always __________
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changing
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Doing Family: 5 ways
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  1. Reproduction: replace dying members of society
  2. regulation of sexual behavior
  3. socialization of children
  4. protection, affection, companionship
  5. social placement: social hierarchy placement
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household different from family b/c
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a living unit containing one or more persons, family is related
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Characteristics of ideal family:4

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  1. heterosexual relationship
  2. sexual division of labor
  3. parents married
  4. nuclear vs. extended family
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Cult of Domesticity:
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traditional ideas from middle/upper class in 1800's- women dont work because their family was wealthy enough
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Different Kinds of Families:5
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single

homosexual

stepfamilies (blended)

adopted

extended 

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cohabitating is beneficial or negative?
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Dont really know!
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Second Shift
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women come home from work and do housework
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married or single women do more housework?
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married
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Fathers spend more time on _____ rather than ______
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childcare, housework
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T/F? Gender Stereotypes of housework are really played out in the roles in the home
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true
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Women outlive men because:
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segregated occupations

men have more acute diseases

masculinity leads to violence

women usually go to get health care more than men

 

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T/F? men are less willing to admit sadness, worthlessness and guilt
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True
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Men have much ____ rates of alcoholism than women
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higher
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T/F? Men smoke more than women, but the gap is narrowing
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T/F? there are cultural expectations of work participation
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True
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Cultural Beliefs are powerful, we are segregating ourselves vis a vis:
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work, family, life expectancies, careers.

 

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Systems of inequalities are created by our ______
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beliefs
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Kimmel's theory that gender DIFFERENCE leads to ??
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justification of gender inequality and dominance
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biological reductionism
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simplify complex processes into one cause
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gender identity
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individual's definition of  self
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gender system (ridgeway and correll)
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gender beliefs that people experience as natural and unchangeable
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expectations states theory
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what I think you think will shape the way that we treat each other ex. boys take leadership roles
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gender is or is not segregated?
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is NOT, gender divides pop. into 2 similar sized groups
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5 agents of socialization
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1. parents

2. teachers

3. peers

4. religion

5. media 

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Thorne's Borderwork
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kids form homogenous groups

borderwork: interactions based on and strengthens gender boundaries

 

1. the chase

2. cooties

3. invasion 

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Reflection Hypothesis
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media reflects cul. hegemonic gender system
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Role Modeling
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women and men portrayed in media using cul. heg. gender system so they're encouraged to model it.
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double standard
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men praised for sex, sex seen as immoral for women
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labeling theory
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labels influence and indiv.'s behavior
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people conforming to the label is:
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self fulfilling prophecy
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move violent crimes done by men or women?
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men
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increases of crime amongst women have been almost entirely in _____ crimes
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Property
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Theory 1. Miller's Underclass Theory
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  • increase in crime is property crime
  • paid labor force benefitted white, mid. class women, so minorities' crime increased
  • lurge into labor market disadvantaged minority
  • underclass must resort to crim to survive

 

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Theory 2. Reproduction of Harm
Definition
  • abused as kids= more risk of committing crimes

violence and crime is a cycle
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males experience higher rates of violent crime except ____ and _____ _____.
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rape and sexual assault
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men are more likely to be victims or perpetrators of homicide?
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both
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cycle of abuse
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tension --> explosion --> remorse --> honeymoon
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Pygmalion Effect
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attractiveness beliefs changed patterns of behavior

ie. more beautiful = rated better 

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Steele's stereotype threat
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one's behavior will confirm an existing stereotype of group with which one identifies. can lead to an imparment of performance
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hegemonic beliefs that men or women are better at:

 

math

 

english 

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men

 

women 

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Cohen's group intervention strategy
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multiple abilities, assign legitimate competence
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implicit association
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unconscious preference for math and science due to socialization. perpetuates stereotypes.
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power:

 

 

influence: 

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involuntary compliance

 

voluntary 

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legitimate authority
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social position in which the actor can expect compliance from his/her subordinates
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judged more harshly because of gender or race?
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gender
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people left out of the fem. movement
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minorities, poor
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Feminism: 1st wave, women leaders
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pizan, wollstonecraft, grimke, stanton&mott, sojourner truth, Susan B. Anthony&Stanton
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2nd wave
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prob. had no name, womanists, consciousness raising groups. Personal is political
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