SOC 0851 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Homophily, Network Theory

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Institutional or Structural Approaches to Gender

Gendered Organizations

o Second wave of feminist movement in Anglo-European society –

claim that gender is an integral part of societal institutions and

structures

o Macrostructural approach to gender – shifts the focus from

individuals or interaction to social aggregates

• Social aggregates are composed of individuals, but they

become more than the sum of the individuals within them

• Assumes that gender is more than individual traits or

interaction between those individuals

• Gender works top-down from organizations down to the

level of individuals and interactions

o A gendered organization is oe i hih adatage ad

disadvantage, exploitation and control, action and emotion,

meaning and identity, are patterned through and in terms of a

distitio etee ale ad feale, asulie ad feiie

o Organizations produce gender through 5 interrelated processes

• Create divisions along gender lines whether in physical

location, power, or behaviors (gym locker room)

• Construct symbols or images that can support or oppose

those divisions (posters in gym)

• Produce types of interactions that reinforce these divisions

and inequality (interactions between men & women in

weight room)

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