Explaining hires made is more difficult, as the decision to hire involves the department, which makes the offer, and the applicant, who accepts. The committee’s departmental survey does not have information on characteristics of those ultimately hired, beyond their gender. However, the committee’s faculty survey did ask faculty some questions about reasons for accepting the […]
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The Experimental Method
A fourth method, experimental research, is being used with increasing frequency to investigate human sexual behavior. Studies using this method, typically conducted in a laboratory environment, have a major advantage over other methods because they provide a controlled environment in which all possible influences on subjects’ responses, other than the factors that are being investigated, […]
Within Gender Differences: Transgenderism
One need not look to the sexual practices of other cultures to find sexual practices that deviate from what the traditional perspective defines as normal. Transgenderists provide a particularly good example. Transgender is a term used to describe individuals who challenge the categories of sex and gender in a variety of ways. Transgenderists are men […]
CAREER BARRIERS AND ENHANCERS
In coding the interview dataset, themes were identified using note taking and tagging features of the software. Tables 2 and 3 list the most common categories of career barriers and enhancers and the numbers of women who spoke about the listed category in the table. Women, were asked to tell their career stories, and then […]
Direct Observation
A third method for studying human sexual behavior is direct observation. In this method, researchers observe and record responses of participating subjects. Although observational research is quite common in the social sciences, such as anthropology, sociology, and psychology, little research of this nature occurs in sexology because of the highly personal and private nature of […]
Violent Pornography and Alcohol Use
How might the survey method be used to clarify the three assertions with which we began this chapter? The first assertion, concerning violent media and men’s likelihood to develop abusive attitudes and behaviors toward women, has been the subject of a number of surveys. One of the most notable studies involved 222 male nonoffender college […]
THE FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY
One major recent change in family/household structure that has attracted much comment has been the reported rise in the proportion of households headed by women. The reasons for this increase, like its rate and magnitude, are diverse, but it is a trend that has been noted for many different countries in the world at varying […]
The National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior (NSSHB)
In 2010 one of the largest nationally representative investigations of sexual health and behaviors to date was released by Indiana University’s Center for Sexual Health Promotion. This study, titled the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior (NSSHB), was conducted by Michael Reece, Debby Herbenick, J. Dennis Fortenberry, Brian Dodge, Stephanie Sanders, and Vanessa Schick […]
Gender Neotraditionalism
Underpinning this gendered process was a neotraditional gender ideology, a belief that physiology dictates that men are to be the strong providers and protectors and women the beautiful loving caretakers. A powerful force in the new Russia, this gender neotraditionalism has been part and parcel of the nationalism that came later to Russia than to […]
The 19th Century: Polygamy, Celibacy, and the Comstock Laws
The 19th century saw the rise of a number of controversial social movements focusing on sexuality. The free love movement, which began in the 1820s, preached that love, not marriage, should be the prerequisite to sexual relations. Free love advocates criti- cized the sexual “slavery” of women in marriage, often condemned the sexual exploitation of […]