It would be thrilling to announce that I had found a single reason for the new approach to rearing children among the professional middle class. But no single cause could possibly explain such a complex shift in orientation toward parenting; moreover, particular aspects of this new approach in all likelihood have multiple and overlapping causes. […]
День: 30.10.2015
New Trends
In some ways, a combination of social trends is actually moving us farther away from a solution, while a change in male attitude seems at the same time to be moving us forward—until recently. Since this book first appeared, the proportion of couples who work two jobs has increased. At the same time, the workweek […]
Group Processes
Group processes can be viewed from two aspects — group communication (the linguistic acts in the communication process) and the actual group dynamics present (Goldberg & Larson, 1975). While the former focuses on the communication process between group members, the latter examines the many behavior patterns of the interaction and interpersonal relationships between group members. […]
Introduction: Foreign Intervention. and Gender Violence
W hen the Russian borders opened in the early 1990s, the international community responded with an unprecedented torrent of attention to issues such as rape, sexual harassment, domestic violence, and later, trafficking in women. Small grants and then larger grants funded Russian academics to research and then to create crisis centers and other nongovernmental organizations […]
Acknowledgments
To finish a project of this size requires both professional and personal support. I have had both in abundance, and I am truly grateful. For their patient descriptions and explanations, I thank the activists and scholars active in Russia, especially Nataliia Abubikirova, Elisabeth Duban, Gabri — elle Fitchett-Akimova, Venera Ibragimova, Irina Khaldeeva, Zoia Khotkina, Marina […]
Theory and Practice
The essays by Jane Braaten and Simone Chambers reflect on Habermas’s discourse ethics from the perspective of political praxis, assessing its importance and limitations in light of women’s lives, and with respect to feminist goals and practices. Jane Braaten argues that to a significant extent, Habermas’s theory of communicative rationality converges with the ideals of […]
The history of gender
Classic sociology and other social theory contain little attention to the social differences between women and men. Marx, Weber and Durkheim are not noted for their insights into ‘sex’ inequality (the word gender was not known to them in its present usage) and in fact tended mostly to consider women’s subordinate social role as a […]
Heike Becker
It came as a surprise, therefore, when in early 1996 the national television channel screened a half-hour programme on a recently held efundula} The TV programme (Carstens 1996) recorded the preparation of the ceremony, the performance of dances, songs and specific ritual practices, as well as interviews with some initiates and the ritual leader, an […]
Anonymity and Gender in Virtual Teams
Anonymity is a crucial feature in collaborative systems and refers to the inability ofteam members to identify the origin and destination of messages received and sent (Valacich et al., 1992). Drawing from the social identity model of deindividuation (Spears & Lea, 1992), anonymity within a social group would encourage deindividuation which maximizes the opportunity of […]
Professional Activities, Climate, Institutional Resources, and Outcomes
(Chapter 4) The survey findings with regard to climate and resources demonstrate two critical points. First, discipline matters, as indicated by the difference in the amount of grant funding held by men and women faculty in biology, but not in other disciplines. Second, institutions have been doing well in addressing most of the aspects of […]