Black women and feminist sociology: The emerging perspective

Brewer, Rose M.

doi:10.1007/bf02697787

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“…Stratifying categories (e.g., class, race, and gender) are social constructs, legitimated through the social production of moral and biological attributions, separation, and dichotomization (Barnes & Oliver, 1993;Gordon & Rosenblum, 2001). While classic theories of stratification emphasized unitary understandings of categories of inequality, theorizing in recent decades emphasizes the ways oppression is produced through mutually constitutive processes (Brewer, 1989;Erevelles & Minear, 2010). The framework of intersectionality, which rose out of 1970s Black feminism (McCall, 2005), emphasizes how systems of power and oppression are interlocked and cannot be understood without taking all dimensions into account simultaneously (Collins, 1999;Crenshaw, 1989Crenshaw, , 1991.…”

Section: Social Construction Of Disability Through Classic Legitimimentioning

confidence: 99%

Disability at the intersections

Shifrer

Frederick

2019

Sociology Compass

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Complete and accurate understandings of stratification depend on more regular consideration of disability. To build sociologists' recognition of disability as a socially constructed axis of stratification, we first demonstrate the construction of the disability category through classic legitimating processes: moral attributions, biological attributions, separation, and dichotomization. Expanding understandings of basic processes of stratification, we then document the centrality of disability in the social construction of class, race, gender, sexual orientation, and age. Finally, we show various ways disability functions as an axis of stratification in intersection with other key axes of stratification.

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Section: Social Construction Of Disability Through Classic Legitimimentioning

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Disability at the intersections

Shifrer

Frederick

2019

Sociology Compass

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“…Alle forskelle er små (mellem 1 % og 7 %), men statistisk signifikante. Dette er en kønnet tendens (om end relativt svag) som både er i overensstemmelse med feministiske kald for kritiske kvalitative metodologier (Brewer, 1989;Cook & Fonow, 1986;Ward & Grant, 1985) og med den eksisterende forskning i køn og metodevalg (Grant et al, 1987: McNamee et al, 1990Erola et al, 2015). At de observerede forskelle er relativt små kan skyldes, at metodevalg blandt specialeskrivere på Københavns Universitet ikke er kønnet i samme grad som blandt publicerede forskere.…”

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“…Vi har i dette studie benyttet et alternativt datasaet og en alternativ metodologi til en replikation af tidligere empiriske studier, ansporet af diskussionen om sammenhaengen mellem køn og metodologi. Denne diskussion har eksisteret siden 1960'erne indenfor sociologien og samfundsvidenskaberne generelt (Brewer, 1989), og tidligere forskning har fundet tendenser til, at kvinder i samfundsvidenskab (saerligt sociologi) i højere grad benytter sig af kvalitative metodologier end maend (Grant et al, 1987;McNamee et al 1990;Erola et al 2015;Plowman & Smith, 2011). Vi observerer disse tendenser på et tidligere akademisk stadie i en dansk population af kandidatstuderende.…”

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Køn og metodevalg blandt samfundsvidenskabelige specialeskrivende

Munksgaard

Enghoff²

2018

DKSOC

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Feministisk teori og forskning har argumenteret for to sammenhænge mellem køn og forskningsmetoder: Kvinder benytter oftere kvalitative metoder, og køn påvirker valget af forskningsområder. Tidligere forskning baseret på fagfællebedømte publikationer understøtter disse foreslåede sammenhænge, men anerkender bias som følge af homogeniserende mekanismer såsom akademisk professionalisering og fagfællebedømmelse. Vi komplementerer disse studier gennem en analyse af de »nedre lag af akademisk produktion«, specifikt 1.103 socialvidenskabelige specialer, hvilket giver en alternativ vinkel på studiet af køn og forskningsdesign. Vi benytter nylige innovationer indenfor digital tekstanalyse og estimerer en structural topic model for at modellere korpussets latente tematiske struktur. Ud fra denne model tester vi empirisk de foreslåede sammenhænge mellem køn, forskningsmetoder og forskningsområder. Vi finder, at de kvindelige specialestuderende er mere tilbøjelige til at benytte kvalitative metoder, og at nogle forskningsområder er kønnede. Topic modelling bliver demonstreret som et effektivt redskab til at analysere akademiske tekster. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Rasmus Munksgaard and Oskar Enghoff: Gender and choice of method among social science masters students Feminist theory and research have argued that gender and research methods are related in two ways: women are more likely to employ qualitative methods, and gender affects choice of research area. While previous research on peer-reviewed publications supports these claims, the authors acknowledge that the data is biased due to the homogenizing mechanisms of academic professionalization and peer-review. We complement these previous studies with an analysis of ”lower-level academic production”, specifically 1,103 master’s theses, providing an alternate angle to the study of gender and research design. We employ recent innovations in digital text analysis, and estimate a structural topic model of the corpora to model the latent thematic structure. Using this model, we test the proposed links between gender, research methods and research area. We find that female students are more likely to employ qualitative methods than men, and that some research areas are gendered. Topic modeling is shown to be an efficient tool in the analysis of academic texts. Keywords: Digital methods, academic production, topic modelling, gender.

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“…Over the years women's studies broadened its scope of vision and embraced an analytical framework that focused on the complexity of social factors that intersect an individual's circumstance and identity, and reduced a binary perspective. In the late 1980s, Black and Latina feminist sociologists applied what they called an intersectional approach to understanding the situations of the women featured in their scholarship (King ; Brewer ; Garcia ; Segura ). More broadly, they used this framework to understand their own lives and experiences.…”

Section: Decolonizing Feminist Anthropologymentioning

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Telling the Story Straight: Black Feminist Intellectual Thought in Anthropology

Bolles

2013

Transforming Anthropology

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Black women and feminist sociology: The emerging perspective

Cited by 26 publications

References 11 publications

Disability at the intersections

Disability at the intersections

Køn og metodevalg blandt samfundsvidenskabelige specialeskrivende

Telling the Story Straight: Black Feminist Intellectual Thought in Anthropology

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