SOCY 284 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bechdel Test, Structural Level, Clifford Nass

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 284
• Professor: Mollers Norma

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Constructivist approach: gender and technology are both socially constructed: mutual gender of society, gender, technology. Gender: bundle of social expectations associated with one"s perceived sex: culturally and historically variable, socially constructed - implicit, we don"t even recognize it, the only genders that are recognized are masculinity and femininity. Learn that women are objects to be had. Just (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause ge(cid:374)der is so(cid:272)iall(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)ted does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ea(cid:374) se(cid:454)is(cid:373) is(cid:374)t. Constructivist approach: gender and technology are both socially constructed. Gender and technology as co-constitutive: technology is both consequence and cause of gender relations and vice versa: cowan"s landmark study of household technology: Housewives in 1910 and in 1980 spent on avg 50-60hrs of housework. In average households, housework was shared by everyone (fathers, children, mothers) - when housework got easier (through introduction of household technology) then it was just women. Men were able to go and become more integrated into workforce.