subject choice - gender

Question 1

what are the four factors of why gender can affect subject choice?

Answer 1

• gender role socialisation and gender
  domains (Murphy and Elwood)
  -gendered subject images (Kelly)
• peer pressure
• gendered career opportunities

Question 2

What does the theory that “Gender Role Socialisation and Gender Domains” explains gender subject choice argue?

Answer 2

Murphy & Elwood - gender socialisation leads to different reading tastes which leads to subject choice (boys: hobby books. girls: stories about people). Gender Domains - territory.

Question 3

Which theory of gender subject choice argues that gender socialisation leads to different reading tastes which leads to subject choice?

Answer 3

Gender Role Socialisation and Gender Domains

Question 4

Which Sociologists argue the “Gender Role Socialisation and Gender Domains” theory of gender subject choice?

Answer 4

Murphy and Elwood

Question 5

Murphy and Elwood use which type of learning as and example for how Gender Role Socialisation and Gender Domains lead to gender subject choice?

Answer 5

reading
boys: hobby books - science
girls: stories about people - English

Question 6

What is an evaluation of “Gender Role Socialisation and Gender Domains” as an explanation of gender subject choice?

Answer 6

gender has less effect in a modern day, women role models no longer do traditional roles and toys are more unisex

Question 7

Which theory of gender subject choice is evaluated by gender having less effect in a modern day: women role models no longer do traditional roles and toys are more unisex?

Answer 7

Gender Role Socialisation and Gender Domains

Question 8

What does the theory that “Gendered Subject Images” explains gender subject choice argue?

Answer 8

Kelly - science is seen as a boys subject: teachers are often male, boys dominate apparatus and lab.
Colley - computer science seen as masculine: working with machines and not with groups
single-sex schools: less stereotyped images

Question 9

Which theory of gender subject choice argues that science is seen as male due to more male teachers, computer science due to machines and less group work and that single-sex schools are less stereotyped?

Answer 9

Gendered Subject Images

Question 10

Which sociologist in the “Gendered Subject Images” theory of gender subject choice found that science is seen as a boy subject due to more male teachers and boys dominating labs?

Answer 10

Kelly

Question 11

Which sociologist in the “Gendered Subject Images” theory of gender subject choice found that computer science is seen as masculine do to working with machines and rarely doing group work?

Answer 11

Colley

Question 12

What is an evaluation of the “Gendered Subject Images” theory of gender subject choice?

Answer 12

GIST & WISE