Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each concept to the sociologist who introduced it.
- The sex and gender distinction in British sociology
- Doing gender as an interactional accomplishment
- Gender as performative rather than expressive
- The second shift of unpaid work after paid work
- Ann Oakley
- Judith Butler
- West and Zimmerman
- Arlie Hochschild
Hints
- Two of the four moved gender out of the individual and into interaction or performance.
- One of them measured what happens after the working day ends.
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- The sex and gender distinction in British sociology → Ann Oakley
- Doing gender as an interactional accomplishment → West and Zimmerman
- Gender as performative rather than expressive → Judith Butler
- The second shift of unpaid work after paid work → Arlie Hochschild
Why
Read in sequence the four are a steady movement outward: from a property of persons, to something produced in interaction, to something constituted by repetition, to a measurable quantity of unpaid labour hours. Each move makes gender less a thing someone has and more a thing that is done, and each licenses a different kind of study.
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