Sociology I / Family, Gender and Sexuality
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
  1. Two of the four moved gender out of the individual and into interaction or performance.
  2. 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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