Sex Differences in Sociology Specializations, 1975–1985: Women's Liberation to Ghetto Specialization

Skipper, James K.; DeWolf, Peggy L.; Dudley, Charles J.

doi:10.1080/00380237.1987.10570951

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“…The only two traditionally male areas where female students are under-represented are Mathematical Sociology (19.2%) and Theory (37.3%). Other research has found that gender differences in sociologists' specified areas of concentration exist (Skipper et al 1987, cited in CSWS 2004.…”

Section: Findings: the Gendered Composition Of Sociologymentioning

confidence: 98%

If and When Sociology Becomes a Female Preserve

DiFuccia

Pelton

Sica

2007

Am Soc

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This article investigates recent data on the prevalence of women in the field of sociology in order to understand whether or not the discipline has become a female preserve. Data on the top sociology departments in the USA were collected in 2007. For each university, we document the number of full time, tenured and tenuretrack faculty members and present the gendered makeup of the department. Our data present mixed findings with regard to the question of whether the field is tipping toward female. Women, overall, are underrepresented in the sociology programs sampled, but a larger percentage of women occupy tenured positions within the top liberal arts programs than at the top graduate programs. And, women occupy a slim majority of assistant professor positions but have lower numbers at higher academic ranks. We can say with reasonable certainty that, while the proportion of women doctorates and assistant professors indicate a feminization of sociology, the entire discipline has not yet tipped toward female.

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Section: Findings: the Gendered Composition Of Sociologymentioning

confidence: 98%

If and When Sociology Becomes a Female Preserve

DiFuccia

Pelton

Sica

2007

Am Soc

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“…One resolution was to conduct a survey of graduate programs. When the Committee on the Status of Women was created, the Women’s Caucus met and began organizing itself into the Sociologists for Women in Society (Bernard 1973; Skipper, De Walk, and Dudley 1987). In 1978, ASA passed a referendum to move the 1980 Annual Meeting from Atlanta to New York in support of the Equal Rights Amendment, and they decided not to meet in states that did not ratify it.…”

Section: American Sociological Associationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sociology Engaged in Social Justice

Romero

2020

Am Sociol Rev

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This article expands on my presidential address to further bolster the case that sociology has, from its inception, been engaged in social justice. I argue that a critical review of our discipline and our Association’s vaunted empiricist tradition of objectivity, in which sociologists are detached from their research, was accomplished by a false history and sociology of sociology that ignored, isolated, and marginalized some of the founders. In the past half-century, scholar-activists, working-class sociologists, sociologists of color, women sociologists, indigenous sociologists, and LGBTQ sociologists have similarly been marginalized and discouraged from pursuing social justice issues and applied research within our discipline. Being ignored by academic sociology departments has led them to create or join homes in interdisciplinary programs and other associations that embrace applied and scholar-activist scholarship. I offer thoughts about practices that the discipline and Association should use to reclaim sociology’s social justice tradition.

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“…The changes in gender composition in the discipline are generally discussed on the basis of the process of the feminization of sociology and its consequences (see e.g. DiFuccia et al, 2007; McNamee et al, 1990; Roos, 1997; Skipper et al, 1987; Spalter-Roth, 2003; Spalter-Roth and Lee, 2000; Witt, 2009). While many academics have considered this as a positive development or transformation, others have concentrated on the transformative effects of such development.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework Of the Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Generally, these authors evaluate gender-based changes in sociology with respect to the basic fields of interest in sociology (see e.g. Grant et al, 1987; Misra et al, 1999; Skipper et al, 1987; Stacey and Thorne, 1985, 1996), professional prestige and salaries (see e.g. England et al, 2007; Roos, 1997; Roos and Jones, 1993; Spalter-Roth and Lee, 2000), and the impacts on the process of production of scientific knowledge (see e.g.…”

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Signs of the feminization of sociology in Turkey: Transformation of gender composition and possible scenarios

Ünal

Binay

2017

International Sociology

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Recently, both in Turkey and the international arena, there has been a remarkable increase in the number and visibility of women among students and academic personnel, particularly in specific areas of higher education. In this respect, this article provides a gender-based picture of students and academic personnel in undergraduate and graduate sociology programs in Turkey and identifies the direction of the gender-based changes in these programs over the last 20 years in quantitative/demographic terms. The article also attempts to assess, within the framework of qualitative/cultural changes, the current and potential changes and transformations in the methodological practices of the discipline, as well as in the discipline’s present and future basic fields of interest and study. To this end, and within the scope of discussions in the literature regarding the feminization of certain academic disciplines, the article focuses on where sociology in Turkey currently stands in this respect, and on possible future scenarios regarding this discipline.

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Sex Differences in Sociology Specializations, 1975–1985: Women's Liberation to Ghetto Specialization

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

If and When Sociology Becomes a Female Preserve

If and When Sociology Becomes a Female Preserve

Sociology Engaged in Social Justice

Signs of the feminization of sociology in Turkey: Transformation of gender composition and possible scenarios

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