The thing about opening that boardroom door to women is that firms aren’t just expanding their talent pool at random; they are expanding it specifically to include women. And women, as we all know, are different from men. Different, it turns out, in very useful ways. We know instinctively that women do business differently than […]
День: 30.10.2015
Global-Local Structural Framework
To do this, I employ a structural approach to policy analysis in which the policy process is understood “as being fundamentally shaped by social structures that systematically disadvantage some groups and advantage others” (Weldon 2002, 6). By social structure, I refer to “a mode of social organizations, a set of relationships that position people relative […]
Introduction
Not Talking about the Same Thing: Introducing Conceptual Literacy In none of the sciences, and not even the perspectives within them… were people talking about the same thing. (Adam, 1990: 5) F or those who are new to social theory and research the multitude of meanings that are given to the same term gives rise […]
Cultures
Fran Martin Introduction A certain tension frequently arises in attempts to think about queer Chinese cultures in a transnational frame. Broadly, this is a tension between emphasising the multiplicity and fragmentation of Chinese identities today, versus emphasising the ‘deep structures’ of ethnicity and culture — especially the family — that are sometimes understood as a […]
The ethnography of efundula
Cross-cultural surveys indicate that 50 to 60 per cent of societies initiate girls, compared to 30 to 40 per cent that initiate boys (quoted in Geisler 1997:125). A certain connection between matriliny and women’s initiation as cultural practice seems a possibility, as Audrey Richards (1982:160, 172, 185) noted, although the correlation is certainly not a […]
Group Dynamics
Many group behavior and patterns could form in a virtual team. Research has observed several patterns of group dynamics. In particular, member awareness, conformity and leader emergence are potential behaviors that could affect the performance and satisfaction of teams. Member awareness is an understanding of the activities of others, which provides a context for the […]
Sitting on the fence? Economics and ideas?
There have been attempts to try and understand patriarchy and capitalism as intricately intertwined systems of both material and symbolic production. Dual-systems theorists (see Chapter 4) like Sylvia Walby, for example, concede that material and symbolic factors may have varying and unequal influence in the formation and shifting of inequalities. In her book Theorizing Patriarchy […]
Sex, work and transnational activism
In recent years the issue of cross-border migration to work in the sexual service industry has come in for much media, popular and academic attention, which typically manifests as a transnational panic around sex trafficking (Cacciotolo 2012; Cizmar, Conklin and Hinman 2011; Kim 2011). The result of this panic has been increased surveillance of the […]
How Men Feel About the Second Shift
But something else is new as well—a new double-bind for men. On one hand, over the last quarter century, men have been urged to become the “new American man”—a lovingly involved father, a considerate husband who shares chores with his working wife, and a major family breadwinner as well. And many men have come forward […]
Theorizing intervention and feminist reform
Comparative and International Models Over the last two decades, social scientists steeped in both feminist theory and social science rigor have begun the comparative study of gender violence politics. The first studies understood the emergence of activisms against gender violence and the passage of policy reforms, such as new domestic violence laws and new protections […]