Chapter 2

Question 1

Performance expectation

Answer 1

A guess about how useful your own contributions will be to accomplishing the goal of the interaction.

Question 2

Status characteristic

Answer 2

Some kind of difference that exists between people in society and to which a sense of lesser or greater value and esteem is given.

Question 3

2 ways that gender status beliefs will be important under status characteristic theory

Answer 3

1. Interaction involves men and women.

2. Gender is important to the goal or task which the group is focused.

Question 4

Status characteristic theory is an interacruibal effect that explains

Answer 4

The presence of gender inequality. People assign hierarchies based on resource differences: more money or power = more respectful

Question 5

Doing gender

Answer 5

Gender doesn’t exist outside of interactions. Created by interaction.

Question 6

Ethnomethodology

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Harold garfinkel

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

Accounts

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Accountability

Answer 9

We gear our actions with attention to our specific circumstances

Question 10

Where is gender located

Answer 10

Intersection between what you do and whether others consider those actions to be accountable as gender

Question 11

How do doing gender theorists explain gender inequality?

Answer 11

Allocation: the way decisions get made about who does what, who gets to make plans, who gives and takes orders

Question 12

Interactionist theories

Answer 12

Status characteristic theory

Doing gender

Question 13

Institutional or structural approaches

Answer 13

Gendered organizations

Homophony: a social network approach

Question 14

Macro structural / aggregates

Answer 14

Shifts the focus from individuals to social aggregates; composed of individuals that become more than the sum of the individuals within them.

Question 15

A gendered organization works in which direction

Answer 15

From the top down

Question 16

Gendered organization

Answer 16

(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

Question 17

How do organizations produce gender? Acker

Answer 17

1. Division gender lines; lockeroom
2. symbols
3. Produce types of interactions that reinforce the divisions. Men: free weights
4. Have an impact on individual identity; surrounded by guys, woman should leave
5. Gender helps to reinforce and create social structures. Through organizational logic (the assumptions and practices that underlie organization).

Question 18

Ego

Answer 18

Focal person

Question 19

Alters

Answer 19

Other people in the network

Question 20

Ego network and three properties

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Homophilous

Answer 21

Similar nodes are more likely to have a relationship than dissimilar nodes

Question 22

How do network theorists explain inequality?

Answer 22

Women have smaller kin filled networks, which limits them in terms of jobs. The differences in their networks

Question 23

Two premises intersectionality needs to overcome

Answer 23

Dichotomies

Ranking of groups

Question 24

Multiple consciousness

Answer 24

Metaphor of interlocking identities. Gender, race, class can be experienced simultaneously. No putting in boxes. Interact dynamically.

Question 25

Matrix of domination

Answer 25

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.

Question 26

The matrix of domination assumes ?

Answer 26

1. Gender needs the social structure of Race, class and sexual orientation to work
2. Social structures are interlocking and simultaneous.
3. Can produce oppression and privilege
4. Allows for fuller examination of how identities work themselves out in real people