Announcements:
Class Business:
Explanations for Gender Similarities and Differences in Education
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Social Psychological Theories·
Sexism in the Classroom·
Network Theory·
Theory of Limited DifferencesWhat explains the gender gap in college majors?
Evidence of the Math Gap in High School
Janet Hyde, Elizabeth Fennema, and Susan Lamon. 1990. Gender Differences in Mathematics Performance: A Meta-Analysis. Psychological Bulletin. Vol. 107: No.2: 139-155
Self Esteem, and Social Psychology of Expectations (Gilligan, Steele)
self-other performance expectations- in a group setting, where there is a group goal, participants look for a way to anticipate the liley usefulness of their own and their fellow interactants' suggestions.
self-fulfilling- self-other performance expectations are important because they not only guide the way you act in relation to another, they also guide the other's reactions to you. In so doing, they tend to become self-fulfilling. The higher your expectations for your own contributions compared to another, the more likely you are to speak up with your own suggestions and the less likely you are to ask others for their opinions.
The Path to Math Theory
Sequencing of choices and events (similar to life course theory)
Catsambis, Sophia. 1994. "The path to math: Gender and racial-ethnic differences in mathematics participation from middle school to high school." In Sociology of Education v67, n3, p199-215
Sexism and Attitudes
Lee, Valerie E., Helen Marks, Tina Byrd. 1994. "Sexism in Single-Sex and Coeducational Independent Secondary School Classrooms." Sociology of Education Vol. 67 April. Pp. 92-20).
Summary
Social Psychology of Expectation
Path to Math
Sexism
Policy Solutions
Single Sex Schools?
Teacher Training/ Curricular Material
3/5/98
Teen Pregnancy Debate
(subtext: gender and poverty; the role of the state in controlling gender/sexuality; social change and the family; interpreting data for political ends)What are the facts of the case? Or, what do we know?
Increase in unmarried fertility
Age Patterns
Racial differences
Births to teen mothers
Births to which teens?
What facts don't we know?
Where are the fathers?
Are we talking about single teens or couples?
Next week (see lecture 7 from last year)
What are the explanations? What is the problem?
The role of the state (summary of Chapter 3 in Luker)