SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Ejaculation, Childbirth, World Health Organization

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1
• Professor: brown

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4. 7 recognize the types of sexism that can occur in research. Feminist scholars maintain that some social research has been, and continues to be, characterized by a sexist bias. Sexism is the belief that one sex is innately superior to the other. 1 androcentricity is a vision of the world in male terms, a reconstruction of the social universe through a male perspective . Women are not seen as active subjects to the same extent as men but, rather, as passive objects to whom things happen. 2 overgeneralization occurs when researchers include only one sex in their study but present their findings as being applicable to both men and women. Terms such as mankind and man-made are instances of over specificity. 3 gender insensitivity occurs when gender is ignored as a socially important variable. If, at the end of reading a study, you are not sure whether men, women, or both were involved, that study is gender insensitive.