CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Judith Butler, Social Reproduction, Gender Role
14 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Gender socialization
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Gender and social reproduction theory
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William Corsaro- interpretive reproduction
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Judith Butler- gender performativity
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Gender identification
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Gender dysphoria in children and youth
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Outline
Theory in which the child has to be integrated into society
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Emphasize how social norms inculcated in individual theories
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A child's information is cast into society, first family then a chain reaction to the
community and then the entire world
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Society responds to that shock of a new person by accommodating them and
teaching them how to be a functioning member of society
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A child is like "a pebble 'thrown' by the fact of birth into the social 'pond"
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Tolcott Parsons
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To tame so they are workable and acceptable to society
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Social norms subdue innate sexual and aggressive drives
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Idea gender norm of stereotypes
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Children try to adopt those gender norms to make it into their own identity
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Describes gender socialization as a process of internalizing "idealized gender images"
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How bias a population is
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Qualities
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Boys- internalizing a culture of masculinity that comprised
physicality, defiance of adult authority and domination of other
Idea of being home taking car of the children, being a mother is
more an ideology that is fading because more and more women
are going into the workplace
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Girls- internalizing a culture of compliance and conformity,
culture of romance and ideology of domesticity
Gender variations on how to be popular
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Questioned what made children popular
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Based on extensive, longitudinal study of US schools
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Patricia Adler
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Gender Socialization theories
Civil right movements made people question these theories
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Doesn't properly explain how society acts
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Assumes the social structures are eternal to the individual, are immutable and functional
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Will this child be socialized into a functioning member of society
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All children live different lives, different challenges and issues
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In children in youth the focus is on their outcomes rather than the process
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This grey area- blurry gender norms and roles
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Began in the 1940, 1950 emerged after world war 2
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Exaggerates the extent which genders are differentiated, ignoring commonalities
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Deterministic- children either internalize gender norms successfully, or vary from the norm
in potentially harmful ways
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Problems of socialization theories
Understands these norms that the socialization theories bring into society are
oppressive
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Where socialization theory focused on functionality of gender norms, social reproduction
theorists focused on how norms reproduce social gender inequality
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Social Reproduction Theory
Week 3- Gender
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