Lesson 3: Gender and Sexuality as a Subject of Inquiry

Question 1

define gender studies

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✓ Gender studies emerged from the need to analyze how gender, sex, and sexuality impact our lives, especially how it creates gender inequality.
✓ Gender Studies looks into analyzing and examining society so that we notice power relations in the seemingly “simple things”

Question 2

are “sets of culturally defined
behaviors such as masculinity and femininity”.
✓How to behave like a woman (mahinhin) or a man
(matipuno/matapang); socially constructed gender roles

Answer 2

gender role or sex role

Question 3

Gender studies utilizes a systematic approach in identifying problems, making hypothesis and assumptions, gathering data, and making conclusions known systematic process

Answer 3

research process

Question 4

Approaches in research

Answer 4

qualitative and quantitative

Question 5

focuses more on the meaning created and interpretations made by people about their own personal or vicarious (observed) experiences

Answer 5

qualitative approach

Question 6

methods of qualitative research

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1. phenomenology
2. hermeneutics
3. ethnography and ethnomethodology

Question 7

conducting intensive interviews with individuals who
have experienced a particular event and understanding their “lived
experiences.”

Answer 7

phenomenology

Question 8

understanding the meaning of text (literary works, art
works) and what they convey about human realities; and

Answer 8

hermeneutics

Question 9

immersing in a community and
taking note of their experiences, beliefs, attitudes, and practices

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ethnography and ethnomethodology

Question 10

focuses more on characterizing a population or a sample and in some cases, making generalizations about the population based on the behavior of a sample.

Answer 10

quantitative approach

Question 11

methods of quantitative approach

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1. survey
2. experiment

Question 12

collecting information from a sample

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survey

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creating actual set-up to observe behavior of people in an
experimental group and comparing it to the behavior of people in a control group

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experiment

Question 14

make sure that people involved in the research are protected from harm.

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ethical principles

Question 15

participants are aware of the purpose and process of the study before participating

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informed consent

Question 16

not reveal any information provided by the participants

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confidentiality and anonymity

Question 17

should do no harm and are beneficial

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non-maleficence and beneficence

Question 18

not disadvantage a particular group especially the marginalized and the oppressed

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distributive justice

Question 19

What are the ethical principles

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1. Informed consent
2. Confidentiality and anonymity
3. non-maleficence and beneficence
4. distributive justice

Question 20

recognizes the interplay among internal and external environments (i.e., physical, socio-economic, cultural).

Answer 20

human ecology

Question 21

Urie Bronfenbrenner’s human ecology model

Answer 21

In gender studies, a human ecological approach looks at human sexual lives and experiences at various levels and spheres of analysis.