(2/5) Agnes, Doing Gender, and Ethnomethodology (a Theory of Individual Agency)
(2/10) Nature vs. Nurture Debate and Doing Science (Sample Selection, Causal Relationships, Gender Bias and Metaphors)
(subtext: moving from the individual to the group as the source for the production of inequality)
Object Relations Theory
Formation, organization, and repression of desire is a function of real experiences with other people (people are the objects).
Sex role achievement is a psychological accomplishment.
Object Relations as a Theory of Social Change? How?
Critiques of the Object Relations Theory:
Ethnocentric bias (non-nuclear families)
Samples - patient-client ("pathological"), replicability
Mothering is not done consistently
Psychological reductionism
Aggression studies
Complexity of Traits- People have many traits that reveal themselves under different conditions or when they occupy different roles
A conservative theory
Interactionist approach but with a larger notion of the social organization or structure (i.e. more than two people or larger than the family).
What does this mean for gender differentiation? …..
individual characteristics (beliefs, attitudes, behavior) are shaped by position in a network, and changes in your position in a network. Changing the set of social relations in which a person is embedded changes the person.
Nodes and ties (relations between nodes)
types of ties:
transitivity
reachability
centrality
vulnerability
characteristics of networks:
density
size
diversity
cliques
ego network
homophily (similarity of other nodes to ego)
To what extent are women's and men's networks different?
What is the source of these differences?
Do the differences affect men's and women's opportunities?
Gender and Science (Fox Keller)
And then the fun stuff
Schools, Adolescence, Body Image, and Onset of Sexuality
