Chapter 2 Flashcards
Performance expectation
A guess about how useful your own contributions will be to accomplishing the goal of the interaction.
Status characteristic
Some kind of difference that exists between people in society and to which a sense of lesser or greater value and esteem is given.
2 ways that gender status beliefs will be important under status characteristic theory
- Interaction involves men and women.
2. Gender is important to the goal or task which the group is focused.
Status characteristic theory is an interacruibal effect that explains
The presence of gender inequality. People assign hierarchies based on resource differences: more money or power = more respectful
Doing gender
Gender doesn’t exist outside of interactions. Created by interaction.
Ethnomethodology
Study the taken for granted rules that govern our social life. Aspects of life are created in specific situations.
Accountability: making sure actions are accountable as female. Agnes
Harold garfinkel
Studied transwoman Agnes to examine how gender works. Agnes felt she could only be a woman by removing her penis. Reaffirms idea you can only be male or female but never both.
Accounts
Descriptions we engage in as social actors to explain to each other the state of affairs, or what we think is going on.
Help us identify and categorize
Accountability
We gear our actions with attention to our specific circumstances
Where is gender located
Intersection between what you do and whether others consider those actions to be accountable as gender
How do doing gender theorists explain gender inequality?
Allocation: the way decisions get made about who does what, who gets to make plans, who gives and takes orders
Interactionist theories
Status characteristic theory
Doing gender
Institutional or structural approaches
Gendered organizations
Homophony: a social network approach
Macro structural / aggregates
Shifts the focus from individuals to social aggregates; composed of individuals that become more than the sum of the individuals within them.
A gendered organization works in which direction
From the top down
Gendered organization
(Dis)advantages exploitation and control, action and emotion, meaning and identity, are patterned through and in terms of a distinction between male and female, masculine and feminine.”
Everything about the organization is gendered
How do organizations produce gender? Acker
- Division gender lines; lockeroom
- symbols
- Produce types of interactions that reinforce the divisions. Men: free weights
- Have an impact on individual identity; surrounded by guys, woman should leave
- Gender helps to reinforce and create social structures. Through organizational logic (the assumptions and practices that underlie organization).
Ego
Focal person
Alters
Other people in the network
Ego network and three properties
Focuses on between an ego and the alters.
Size: number of others to whom someone is linked in a network.
density: how connected the alters are in an ego network.
heterogeneity
Homophilous
Similar nodes are more likely to have a relationship than dissimilar nodes
How do network theorists explain inequality?
Women have smaller kin filled networks, which limits them in terms of jobs. The differences in their networks
Two premises intersectionality needs to overcome
Dichotomies
Ranking of groups
Multiple consciousness
Metaphor of interlocking identities. Gender, race, class can be experienced simultaneously. No putting in boxes. Interact dynamically.
Matrix of domination
Social structures of race, class work with and through each other so that each individual experiences these categories differently based on social Location.
Impossible to separate gender from the other identities we occupy.
The matrix of domination assumes ?
- Gender needs the social structure of Race, class and sexual orientation to work
- Social structures are interlocking and simultaneous.
- Can produce oppression and privilege
- Allows for fuller examination of how identities work themselves out in real people
