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Gender as a Group Process: Implications for the Persistence of Inequality
Cecilia L. Ridgeway
- Vol. 24
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The everyday use of sex/gender as cultural tool for organizing social relations spreads gendered meanings beyond sex and reproduction to all spheres of social life that are carried out through social relationships and constitutes gender as a distinct and obdurate system of inequality as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
Gender is at core a group process because people use it as a primary frame for coordinating behavior in interpersonal relations. The everyday use of sex/gender as cultural tool for organizing social relations spreads gendered meanings beyond sex and reproduction to all spheres of social life that are carried out through social relationships and constitutes gender as a distinct and obdurate system of inequality. Through gender's role in organizing social relations, gender inequality is rewritten into new economic and social arrangements as they emerge, contributing to the persistence of that inequality in modified form in the face of potentially leveling economic and political changes in contemporary society.read more
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Framed Before We Know It: How Gender Shapes Social Relations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that gender is a primary cultural frame for coordinating behavior and organizing social relations, and they describe the implications for understanding how gender shapes social behavior and organizational structures.
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The Price of Power: Power Seeking and Backlash Against Female Politicians
TL;DR: The presence of moral-emotional reactions suggests that backlash arises from the violation of communal prescriptions rather than normative deviations more generally, which illuminate one potential source of gender bias in politics.
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TL;DR: How cultural self-construals inform the way people interpret and respond to being the target of positive stereotypes is demonstrated, by bringing together research on stereotypes from the target's perspective with research on culture.
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Doing, redoing, and undoing gender: variation in gender identities of women working as police officers
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Status Distinctions in Interaction: Social Selection and Exclusion at an Elite Nightclub
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