Gender and Subject Choice| Internal Flashcards
things in the school that are allocated for genders etc.
Gender Role Socioloisation:
Who studies gender role sociolosation: proces of learning behaviour expected of males and females in society?
tis a woman.
‘hard at work or hardly working?’
Fiona Norman.
GRS:
What does Norman argue that early sociolisation does?
It shapes children’s gender identity.
GRS:
What are some of the examples of how children get socialised into gender roles early?
Dressed differently, given different toys and encouraged to participate in different activities.
GRS:
What sociologist argues that schools also play a part in gender role sociolisation?
Hint: Lord Byron.
Byrne.
GRS:
What does Byrne differentiate teacher’s behaviour between girls and boys as?
Teachers would encourage boys to be tough and show initiative.
They teach girls how to stay quiet, helpful and tidy.
What does Murphy and Elwood argue that the result of differences in sociolisation did to both genders?
what did they develop different tastes in?
Different tastes in reading.
Boys would read about their hobbies and information texts, whereas girls would read about people.
What are gender domains?
A domain being the section of influence that is stationed for a particular thing/person.
What does Browne and Ross explain about gender domains?
what is shaped by?
Early experiences and the expectations of adulthood.
What is a ballistic example of gender domains?
male dominated..
Fixng a car is seen as a male dominated domain but taking care of a sick child is not.
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Murphy also talks about the attention span between the girls and boys.
What does she conclude about her study?
what do girls/boys focus more on?
In topics, girls tend to focus on emotions wheras boys focus on how things are made at work.
Kelly argues science is a ‘boys’ subject’.
Why is this?
think about school and their teachers.
Science teachers are most likely to be men.
Examples in textbooks often are shown through a man’s POV, not a woman’s.
Boys dominate the lab.
What is single-sex schooling and what does it do?
School where the genders are segregated and there is no appearance of the other gender.
More freedom is seen when there aren’t the opinions of the opposite sex.
Who found that single-sex schooling hold less stereotyped subject images and make less traditional subject choices?
based on analysis data on 13,000 individuals.
di caprio.
Leonard.
Who supports Leonard’s study about the single-sex schooling?
instituite of some science.
what did they find about girls? 2.4 times more likely to do what?
Insititute of Physics- found that girls in SSS were 2.4 times more likely to tackle A-level physics than those in mixed schools.
What can subject choice ultimtely be influenced by apart from the gender domians?
something that occurs with students.
Peer pressure.
