sociology of gender notes

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4 Gender Processes that

Boundary maintenance

Subordinate adaptation

Othering

Emotion work

Reification

“Race, class, and gender, for example, though often used as

explanatory variables, are merely labels for routinized forms of

thoughts, speech, and action through which some people attempt to

dominate and exploit others”

boundary Maintenance

Regulating access to cultural capital

o “Knowledge, skills, habits, values, and tastes” obtained

through family, peer, media socialization

o Consumer goods

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Chapter 1

Scientific research is empirical

Means that it’s based on systematic collection and analysis of data

Chapter 2

Research Designs

Descriptive research

o Observations

o Surveys

Correlational research

Experimental research

Converging Operations

The Research Hypothesis

Specific and testable research question

Predicts a relationships between variables

Correlational or experimental

Falsifiable

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