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Gender, Interaction, and Inequality (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1992)
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Gender, Interaction, and Inequality (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1992)
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Causal explanations are essential for theory building. In focusing
on causal mechanisms rather than descriptive effects, the goal of
this volume is to increase our theoretical understanding of the way
gender operates in interaction. Theoretical analyses of gender's
effects in interaction, in turn, are necessary to understand how
such effects might be implicated with individual-level and social
structural-level processes in the larger system of gender
inequality. Despite other differences, the contributors to this
book all take what might be loosely called a "microstructural"
approach to gender and interaction. All agree that individuals come
to interaction with certain common, socially created beliefs,
cultural meanings, experiences, and social rules. These include
stereotypes about gendered activities and skills, beliefs about the
status value of gender, rules for interacting in certain settings,
and so on. However, as individuals apply these beliefs and rules to
the specific contingent events of interaction, they combine and
reshape their implications in distinctive ways that are particular
to the encounter. As a result, individuals actively construct their
social relations in the encounter through their interaction. The
patterns of relations that develop are not completely determined or
scripted in advance by the beliefs and rules of the larger society.
Consequently, there is a reciprocal causal relationship between
constructed patterns of interaction and larger social structural
forms. The constructed patterns of social relations among a set of
interactants can be thought of as micro-level social structures or,
more simply, "microstructures.
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