The Social Science Music of Terri Lyne Carrington

2021 ◽  
pp. 71-104
Author(s):  
James Gordon Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Black Aesthetic ◽  
Gender Inequity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Improvised Music ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Artistic Director ◽  
Musical Arrangement

This chapter explores the music, life, and institutional building of drummer, feminist, and artistic director for the Berklee Institute for Jazz and Gender Justice, Terri Lyne Carrington. Through and examination of her cultural work, this chapter discusses Carrington’s attack on patriarchy in jazz culture through Black feminist thought reflected in her musical practices. Her work exposes the irony of the Black aesthetic values of inclusion at the foundation of African American improvised music in contrast with the patriarchal practice of marginalizing women improvisers. Carrington’s musical arrangement of Bernice Johnson Reagon’s composition “Echo” on The Mosaic Project (2011) is analyzed as linked critique of anti-blackness over and several compositions on Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science (2019) are analyzed as an intersectional critique of police brutality, gay conversion therapy, celebration of Black feminism, and gender inequity represented respectively in “Bells (Ring Loudly),” “Pray the Gay Away,” “Anthem,” and “Purple Mountains.”

Debating Gender Inequalities: Culture, Economics and Choice

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 422-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajni Palriwala
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Depth Range ◽  
Selective Abortion ◽  
State Action ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sex Selective Abortion ◽  
And Gender

This paper looks at a little-known part of Leela Dube’s writings through a debate between her and the economic historian, Dharma Kumar, on sex-selective abortion. Drawing on comparative and cross-cultural work on gender and kinship, Dube questioned the application of demandsupply dynamics to social relations and was prescient of later developments in the juvenile sex ratio. The paper argues that Dube and the debate draws attention to four themes that remain relevant to an understanding of sex ratios and gender relations. These are the significance and construction of the social, the depth, range and contours of diversity, understandings of preference, choice and agency, and state action and responsibility.

SOCIEDAD RURAL Y PERSPECTIVA DE GÉNERO. ESTUDIO DE CASO, COMUNIDAD RECINTO PARAÍSO, GUAYAS, ECUADOR.

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
María Caridad Mederos Machado
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Gender Inequity ◽  
Social Stereotypes ◽  
Calidad De Vida ◽  
The Social ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Impaired Quality

La perspectiva de género más que un enfoque constituye un instrumento de análisis y transformación de la realidad. El género es una construcción de origen profundamente cultural y social y está presente en los procesos de producción, reproducción, distribución y consumo. El objetivo de este trabajo fue visualizar aquellos elementos culturales, organizativos y productivos, que desde la subjetividad y conceptos estereotipados promueven la inequidad entre los sexos y el género en el recinto Paraíso, de la parroquia rural Taura, en el cantón Naranjal, provincia del Guayas, agravando aún más la situación de pobreza y el deterioro de la calidad de vida, especialmente de las mujeres y niñas. En este estudio se aprecian los estereotipos sociales asociados a la inequidad de género. Para su transformación es necesario revelarlos y tomar conciencia de su existencia y al mismo tiempo de la capacidad de revertir las circunstancias con una visión desde la perspectiva de género. Palabras clave:género, estereotipos, sociedad rural. AbstractThe gender perspective approach is an instrument of analysis and transformation of reality. Gender is a construction of deeply cultural and social origin which is present in the processes of production, reproduction, distribution and consumption. The objective of this research was to visualize those cultural, organizational and productive elements, which from subjectivity and other stereotyped concepts promote inequity between sexes and gender in Paraiso, Taura belonging to the Naranjal canton, in the Guayas province, which worsens the situation of poverty and impaired quality of life or women and girls especially. In this study the social stereotypes are associated with gender inequity. For their transformation it is necessary to reveal them and be aware of their existence and their capacity of reversing the circumstances with a vision from the perspective of gender. Keywords: gender, stereotypes, rural society Recibido: junio de 2014Aprobado: septiembre de 2014

scholarly journals The Trojan-horse mechanism: How networks reduce gender segregation

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (16) ◽  
pp. eabf6730
Author(s):  
M. Arvidsson ◽  
F. Collet ◽  
P. Hedström
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Trojan Horse ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Unique Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Science Literature ◽  
Main Tenet ◽  
And Gender

The segregation of labor markets along ethnic and gender lines is socially highly consequential, and the social science literature has long viewed homophily and network-based job recruitments as some of its most crucial drivers. Here, we focus on a previously unidentified mechanism, the Trojan-horse mechanism, which, in contradiction to the main tenet of previous research, suggests that network-based recruitment reduce rather than increase segregation levels. We identify the conditions under which networks are desegregating, and using unique data on all individuals and all workplaces located in the Stockholm region during the years 2000–2017, we find strong empirical evidence for the Trojan-horse mechanism and its role in the gender segregation of labor markets.

Reducing Poverty among Older Women: Social Security Reform and Gender Equity

2005 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith G. Gonyea ◽  
Nancy R. Hooyman
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Poverty Rate ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Gender Inequity ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender

The authors document the higher poverty rate of older women, especially women of color, compared with older men—a pattern created and maintained by the intersection of the structural factors of age, race, and marital status. They then review how the U.S. Social Security program generally benefits older women and reduces their late-life economic vulnerability. A persistent gender inequity, however, is that women are more likely to disrupt their paid employment to meet family care responsibilities, which may increase the number of zero-earnings years and reduce the amount paid into Social Security. Current proposals to privatize the Social Security system are critiqued in terms of their gender inequities. Three relatively revenue-neutral proposals that could increase Social Security's protection against poverty and differentially affect low-income women are briefly discussed.

“We Speak the Truth!”

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-80
Author(s):  
Sari Hanafi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Science ◽  
The Political ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Qualifications

This study investigates the preachers and their Friday sermons in Lebanon, raising the following questions: What are the profiles of preachers in Lebanon and their academic qualifications? What are the topics evoked in their sermons? In instances where they diagnosis and analyze the political and the social, what kind of arguments are used to persuade their audiences? What kind of contact do they have with the social sciences? It draws on forty-two semi-structured interviews with preachers and content analysis of 210 preachers’ Friday sermons, all conducted between 2012 and 2015 among Sunni and Shia mosques. Drawing from Max Weber’s typology, the analysis of Friday sermons shows that most of the preachers represent both the saint and the traditional, but rarely the scholar. While they are dealing extensively with political and social phenomena, rarely do they have knowledge of social science

PAR Method

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Billies
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Context Analysis ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender

The work of the Welfare Warriors Research Collaborative (WWRC), a participatory action research (PAR) project that looks at how low income lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming (LG-BTGNC) people survive and resist violence and discrimination in New York City, raises the question of what it means to make conscientization, or critical consciousness, a core feature of PAR. Guishard's (2009) reconceptualization of conscientization as “moments of consciousness” provides a new way of looking at what seemed to be missing from WWRC's process and analysis. According to Guishard, rather than a singular awakening, critical consciousness emerges continually through interactions with others and the social context. Analysis of the WWRC's process demonstrates that PAR researchers doing “PAR deep” (Fine, 2008)—research in which community members share in all aspects of design, method, analysis and product development—should have an agenda for developing critical consciousness, just as they would have agendas for participation, for action, and for research.

Engaging Student Mothers Creatively: Animated Stories of Navigating University, Inner City, and Home Worlds

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-114
Author(s):  
Lise Kouri ◽  
Tania Guertin ◽  
Angel Shingoose
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Graphic Narrative ◽  
Student Mothers ◽  
Education Outcomes ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
Animated Graphic

The article discusses a collaborative project undertaken in Saskatoon by Community Engagement and Outreach office at the University of Saskatchewan in partnership with undergraduate student mothers with lived experience of poverty. The results of the project were presented as an animated graphic narrative that seeks to make space for an under-represented student subpopulation, tracing strategies of survival among university, inner city and home worlds. The innovative animation format is intended to share with all citizens how community supports can be used to claim fairer health and education outcomes within system forces at play in society. This article discusses the project process, including the background stories of the students. The entire project, based at the University of Saskatchewan, Community Engagement and Outreach office at Station 20 West, in Saskatoon’s inner city, explores complex intersections of racialization, poverty and gender for the purpose of cultivating empathy and deeper understanding within the university to better support inner city students. amplifying community voices and emphasizing the social determinants of health in Saskatoon through animated stories.

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