scholarly journals Teaching Gender as Social Structure: “Walking While Trans” as Illustration

2021 ◽  
Vol 121 ◽  
pp. 94-98
Author(s):  
Jillian Crocker
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Student Understanding ◽  
Police Harassment ◽  
And Gender

This teaching note offers a description of the analysis of features of the phenomenon of police harassment of trans and gender non-conforming folks as an illustration of gender as a social structure and related course concepts, with a focus on how the use of this illustration enhances student understanding of ideas central to the course.

scholarly journals Fashion, Dressing, and Identities in Ballroom Subculture

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Zoi Arvanitidou
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Sexual Expression ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Gender Expression ◽  
Fashion Models ◽  
And Gender

The Ballroom scene is an underground subculture created by African Americans and Latinos and gives emphasize in issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation within the heterogeneous society. The members of this subculture live in an organized social structure based on the acceptance and the celebration of sexual and gender expression. Balls are competitions where transgender people are involved, performing different kinds of dances. Balls provide to the queer community a cozy place to build their sense of self in their hidden world without the limitations imposed by society on gender and sexual expression. Balls are a combination of fashion, competition, and dance. “Voguing” is the characteristic dance of Balls and it is an extremely stylized dance form. Vogue magazine’s model poses to inspire it, and it uses the arms and legs with dramatic, rapid and feminine edgy ways. “Voguing” includes catwalk, dance, spins and other risky styles of movement. The “Voguing” has the major role in Ballrooms that contain fashion catwalk and competitions, where African and Latinos gays and transgender participate in a competition, imitating fashion models in the catwalk with gestures and poses to win an award. The panel of the critics, in a Ball, judges them from the movements of their dance, attitudes, costumes and the ingenuity in all of these areas. Today there are three basic types of Voguing: a) the Old Way, b) The New Way and, c) The Vogue Femme.

Social structure, social coalitions and party choice in Hungary

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oddbjørn Knutsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Socialist Party ◽  
Party Choice ◽  
Structural Variables ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Party Support ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the relationship between social structure and party choice in Hungary on the basis of a survey from 2009 (N = 2980). The following structural variables are examined: ascriptive variables (age and gender), territorial variables (region and urban-rural residence), social class variables (education, social class and household income), sector employment and religious variables (religious denomination, church attendance and self-declared religiosity). The analysis shows that age and territorial variables are the most important sociostructural variables for explaining party support in Hungary. The role of religious and class variables is considerably smaller in this respect. The two largest parties, Fidesz and the Socialist Party, are first and foremost anchored in different generations and in territorial variables although different degrees of religiosity also has significant effect on support for these parties. The impact of the religious variables is, however, low. The class variables have the opposite impact on the two largest parties from what we should expect according to traditional class voting. Fidesz gets strongest support from the working class and the lower educated strata while the Socialist Party gets strongest support from the service class. The two largest parties are foremost social coalitions of very different social groups. The explanatory power of social structure on party choice is low in Hungary. This is also confirmed from comparative studies.

Diverse Cultures and Recurrent Themes in Recent Melanesian Ethnography—A Review Article

1986 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 797-805
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Blythe
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Cultural Ecology ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Cultural Themes ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Recurrent Patterns ◽  
Diverse Cultures

Melanesia is an area of cultural and ecological variety that has attracted anthropologists with diverse theoretical interests. However, the diversity of the region is tempered by recurrent patterns that represent local elaborations of common cultural themes. Investigation of these themes by ethnographers gives an underlying unity to Melanesian studies. The recent publications reviewed here recapitulate the history of ethnography in Melanesia. Books written by two missionaries follow a tradition of amateur ethnography that began in Melanesia during the last century. Contributions by professional anthropologists discuss topics considered in the 1950s and 1960s when the New Guinea Highlands were first studied intensively. These include cultural ecology, problems of social structure, and gender relations. Several of the studies make use of or refer to theoretical frameworks common at that time, while others approach familiar subject matter from new perspectives.

The Persistence of Social Structure: Cohort, Class and Gender Effects on the Occupational Aspirations and Expectations of Canadian Youth

1999 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
LESLEY ANDRES ◽  
PAUL ANISEF ◽  
HARVEY KRAHN ◽  
DIANNE LOOKER ◽  
VICTOR THIESSEN
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Gender Effects ◽  
Occupational Aspirations ◽  
Canadian Youth ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals When Women Play: The Relationship between Musical Instruments and Gender Style

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Koskoff
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Gender Stratification ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Social Marginality ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

In many societies, musical roles are divided along gender lines: women sing and men play. Men also sing and women sometimes play; yet, unlike men, women who play often do so in contexts of sexual and social marginality. This essay surveys the literature on women's use of musical instruments in a variety of social and cultural contexts and presents some contemporary anthropological theories regarding the interrelationship between social structure and gender stratification. The author concludes that women's use of musical instruments is related to broader issues of social and gender structure, and that changes in the ideology of these structures often reflect changes that affect women as performers.

scholarly journals Becoming a Lady: Learning to be “Classy” in Polish Adaptations of Reality Shows

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Borys
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Reality Show ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Class Habitus

Given the lineup across much of our current television landscape, we could be forgiven for thinking that the medium is utterly obsessed with class struggle. One of the most popular TV genres to exploit class difference for dramatic purposes is the reality show. This essay examines Polish adaptations of three foreign reality show formats that rely on “clash of two worlds”-type tropes to drive their narratives. The shows in question are: Projekt Lady (prod. TVN, first aired in 2016), Damy i wieśniaczki (prod. TTV, first aired in 2016), and Rolnik szuka żony (prod. TVP, first aired in 2014). Drawing on sociological concepts of class as the embodiment of a specific collection of attributes and habits (Pierre Bourdieu), the author treats the shows in question as a particular sub-type of image designed to impart lessons in class. Calling on scholarship interpreting reality show programming as a neoliberal formula that gives weight to the middle-class habitus (Beverley Skeggs, Helen Wood), this analysis considers the specific nature of the Polish social structure, and interprets the relationship between class and gender in the analyzed programs. The inquiry elucidates what could be called the Polish strain of upward mobility, which compels reality show contestants to blend attributes associated with both the lower (“peasants”) and middle classes (“ladies”).

scholarly journals College athletes and the influence of academic and athletic investment on sense of belonging

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-72
Author(s):  
Matt R Huml ◽  
Jennifer L Gellock ◽  
Carrie W Lecrom
Keyword(s):  
College Student ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Student Athletes ◽  
College Athletes ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Structural Modeling ◽  
Student Understanding ◽  
Academic Experiences ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

While the athletic and academic experiences of student-athletes have been frequently examined by scholars (Houle & Kluck, 2015; Rettig & Hu, 2016), there is a lack of research into which investment creates a sense of belonging on campus for student-athletes. Other factors, such as sport status, have only been conceptually discussed, while transfer status and gender, have been examined in non-athlete populations, highlighting a gap in our college student understanding of sense of belonging. We used structural modeling to examine the relationship between athletic investment, academic investment, and demographics within a context of student-athletes. Results indicated as both athletic and academic investment increase, the student-athlete’s sense of belonging on campus decreased. Additionally, student-athletes who were transfers, in team sports, or men were more likely to have a reduced sense of belong on campus.

Psychoanalytic Theories of Gender

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie C. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theories

A useful psychology of gender needs to make sense of both the seemingly fixed and universal aspects of gender and the seemingly contradictory and individual aspects of gender. It should provide an explanation of gender’s seeming intractability and universality, and of individuals’ ability to manifest and experience gender in endlessly multiple ways. This chapter considers the particular utility of psychoanalytic theory for understanding gender. First, what distinguishes psychoanalytic theory from other theories of human development and gender and Freud’s initial contributions to the understanding of gender is described. Then, the contributions and revisions to Freud’s theory provided by feminist psychoanalytic theorists during the 1970s and 1980s, focusing on social structure and relations, are described. Finally, more recent feminist psychoanalytic theories influenced by postmodernism, queer theory, and the trans movement, which address universality and intractability as well as particularity and fluidity, are described.

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