Exam 2 Flashcards
Gender Ideology
Defines what sphere we most want to identify with
How much power one wants to have in a marriage
Stalled Revolution
Strain between change in women and the absence in change in much else
Upstairs/Downstairs
What % of work does Nancy still do?
Myth that if Evan does downstairs housework and Nancy does upstairs work it will be fair
Nancy still does 80%
Passive Resistance
Nonviolent opposition to authority
Evan doesn’t follow Nancy’s rules and guidelines
3 Types of Gender Ideology
traditional, egalitarian, transitional
Traditional Ideology
Wife identifies with home and is okay with having less power
Husband identifies with work and expects to have more power
Egalitarian Ideology
Equal power
Shared balance with work and home
Transitional Ideology
In-between
Wife identifies at work and home
Husband identifies more with work and expect wife to have more home
Leisure Gap
Fathers have more leisure time than mothers because mothers are doing housework. Greater worth of male work time makes his leisure more valuable
3 Families from Second Shift
Holts (Evan and Nancy)
Delacortes (Carmen and Frank)
Steins (Jessica and Seth)
Holts Gender Strategies
upstairs/downstairs myth, passive resistance, dog care, withholding sex
Broader social forces affect ideologies
Holts Gender Ideologies
Mrs. Egalitarian
Mr. Transitional
Holts Social Structure
Middle-class, employment, opportunities for Nancy
Delacortes Gender Strategies
calculated incompetence, myth of “Frank does little around the house”
Delacortes Gender Ideologies
Mr. and Mrs. Traditional
Delacortes Social Structure
Working class, traditional upbringing, she needs to work
Steins Gender Strategies
hired help, emotional absenteesim, hard driving Type A work ethic
Steins Gender Ideologies
Mrs. Egalitarian
Mr. transitional
Steins Social Structure
Upper middle class, both highly educated, traditional upbringing
Supermoming
(Holts) Does most of the second shift while having a career
Competition between other moms
Calculated incompetence
(Delacortes) Ways of receiving indirectly what many egalitarian women received directly-a man’s labor in the second shift
Emotional Absenteeism
(Steins) failure to to be present emotionally in the family
Seth was always at work while Jessica paid someone to always do housework and take care of kids
Scarcity of Gratitude
(Steins) clash of ideas about what deserved appreciation led each to resent the other and feel out of touch
Nurturance
(Steins) ability to provide emotional and physical care
Back Stage “Wealth”
The higher up the corporate ladder, the more home support a worker had
Gender
cultural definitions of masculinity and femininity
Patriarchy
system of society which father is head of family and descent is traced through the male line. Women are free with an overall unequal step
Self-fulfilling prophecy
a prediction that causes itself to be true (girls are told that they naturally aren’t good at math, so they don’t work hard at math and end up not doing well)
Institutional discrimination
Practices that discriminate, legally or illegally, against a minority group by virtue of its ethnicity, gender, culture, age, sexual orientation, or other target of societal or company prejudice
Glass Ceiling
invisible and unbreakable barriers to economic advancement by otherwise qualified women and racial and ethnic minorities
Hegemonic masculinity
Many versions of masculinity but there is one that rules them all “authentic man”
Social norms enforce masculinity
-culturally normative ideal of male behavior
Hegemonic femininity
women waste time doing body care to keep up with femininity
-culturally normative ideal of female behavior
Heteronormativity
- people fall into distinct and complementary genders with natural roles in life
- Asserts heterosexuality is the norm
- Assuming that heterosexual relationships are the correct or natural way for people to be.
Looking Glass Self
Cooley
- We learn or develop our self from our impression of how others perceive us
- Self is a product of our social interactions
3 phases of looking glass self
1) imagine what others see when they look at us
2) imagine some judgement of this appearance
3) form feelings such as pride or mortification
gender as a social construct
contributed by history, biology, social structure and socialization
Social agreements, not ontological facts
Sex as a social construct
free standing biological facts rooted in reproductive ability
More fluid and complicated than we think
Construct does not make sex fake, a choice, or biological factor
Gender Essentialism
belief in hard wired, essential differences between men and women that stem from in born, biological and evolutionary distinctions
Reject because ahistorical and downplays cultural factors
Gender Identity
One’s personal experience of one’s own power
-refers to a person’s internal sense of being male, female, or something else.
LGBTQI
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexaul, transgender, queer, intersex
Cisgender
individuals who have a match between the gender they were assigned at birth, their bodies, and their personal identities
transgender
umbrella term
mismatch between gender identity and assigned sex
Genderqueer
don’t identify with a single sphere
In between and not masculine nor feminine
Hook up culture
having a casual sexual encounter without strings attached
Started in late 1800s and early 1900s due to automobile
Moralists believe it is bad, liberationists believe it is good and socialist are in between
George Chauncey
Studied gay history
Concluded sexuality has a history and is not ineviteable progressive. Rethink linear view of gay history
Disrupts divide between heterosexuality and homosexuality
Three myths of gay history
invisibility, isolation, and the closet
Stonewall Riots
Defining moment in gay rights
Riot at a gay bar where drag queens stood up for themselves and inspired others. Created political groups
Trade
Straight acting man and sleeps in other men (mainly fairies)
Fairy
Acted feminine and only sleeps with other men
Gender socialization
Begins at a young age from your parents mainly
It can be changed
Ex: wrapped in a blue blanket as a kid
Microsociology
-concerning the nature of everyday human social interactions and agency on a small scale
face to face
-Analysis of social life that focuses on social interaction; typically used by symbolic interactionists
Symbolic interaction
Blumer, symbols are culturally derived social objects having shared meanings that are created and maintained in through social interaction
“Sociology is the interpretation of social meaning”
Ex: Science can not explain the meaning/significance of the “high five”
Sociological Methods
Quantitative, qualiliative, and document analysis
None are better than the other just use the research method that fits what you are studying
Positivism
“Sociology is the science of society”
Leaves out the element of human agency
Dramaturgy
Goffman- all of the worlds stages and all men and women are merely player
Self=a “product of a scene that comes off”
Impression Management
the way individuals learn to slant their presentation of self in order to create distinct appearances
Front Stage
where people feel compelled to present themselves in expected ways
Back Stage
let guard down and do things that would be inappropriate or unexpected
Blumer
symbolic interaction, critiques positivism
Goffman
dramaturgy, impression management, front/back stage
- Self = a “product of a scene that comes off”
- Self = performed character, rising out of performances
Cooley
looking glass self
Civil Inattention
Goffman-strangers who are in close proximity demonstrate that they are aware of one another with out imposing on each other
-The process whereby individuals in the same physical setting demonstrate to one another that they are aware of each other’s presence.
Constructionism
an idea/notion that appears natural and obvious to people who accept it but may or may not represent reality so it remains an invention of society
team
groups of people who work together in complimentary roles to maintain the definition of the situation
Roles
set of expectations that we attach to social position
Stage Model of Uncoupling
1) Secrets
2) Display of Discontent
3) Mid-transition
4) Signals, Secrecy, and collaborative cover up 5)Breakdown of cover up
6) trying
7) Initiators Advantage
8) going public
9) the partners transition
10) uncoupling
1)Secrets
- Begins with secret where one person in the relationship becomes dissatisfied and keeps this form the other person
- Creates initiator and partner
2)Display of Discontent
- In presence of others initiator reacts to partner in ways that reflect dislike
- Initiator finds someone whom they can confide their discontent to (transitional person)
3)Mid-transition
- Initiators unfamiliar with the process of uncoupling turn to the world around them to learn more about the process
- Vaughan speaks of the initiator being in two worlds at once: not ready to completely relinquish the old but not quite ready to plunge into the new
4)Signals, Secrecy and collaborative cover up
- Partner does not ask questions about initiators display of discontent
- Partner tries to save face and so the cover-up of problems becomes collaborative
5)Breakdown of cover up
- Stage of relationship drama and confrontation
- May use indirect methods: fatal mistake, decreased interaction, rule violation, playing detective