Gender and Sexuality as a Subject of Inquiry

Vocabulary flashcards covering the concepts, methodologies, research ethics, and ecological perspectives introduced in Gender and Sexuality as a Subject of Inquiry.

Gender Studies

An area of knowledge focused on looking into, analyzing, and examining society to identify power relations in everyday life and understand how gender, sex, and sexuality create inequalities.

Gender Role (Sex Role)

Sets of culturally defined behaviors, such as masculinity and femininity, that are not fixed and vary across cultures and time periods.

Binary System of Gender Roles

A framework that recognizes only male and female, where men are expected to be masculine and women are expected to be feminine.

Process of Normalization

A lifelong social process through which society encourages conforming behaviors and reprimands non-conforming behaviors to make an individual adapt to gender expectations.

Research Process

A systematic process utilized in gender studies to identify problems, make hypotheses and assumptions, gather data, and make conclusions.

Qualitative Approach

A research approach that focuses on the meanings created and interpretations made by people concerning their personal or observed (vicarious) lived experiences.

Phenomenology

A qualitative research method that involves conducting intensive interviews with individuals who experienced a specific event to understand their lived experience.

Hermeneutics

A qualitative method focused on interpreting and understanding the meaning of texts, such as literary and art works, and what they convey about human realities.

Ethnography and Ethnomethodology

Qualitative methods centered on immersing oneself in a community to observe and document its members' experiences, beliefs, attitudes, and practices.

Quantitative Approach

A research approach that characterizes a population or sample and often makes generalizations about the whole population based on sample behavior.

Population

The total number of individuals within a specified group under study.

Sample

A selected sub-group from within a broader population.

Survey

A quantitative research method used to collect information directly from a sample.

Experiment

A quantitative method involving an actual set-up to observe and compare behaviors between an experimental group receiving a treatment and a control group without treatment.

Mixed Methods

A research design combining qualitative and quantitative methods to collect data from multiple sources and provide a holistic view of social realities.

Informed Consent

An ethical principle requiring researchers to ensure participants understand the purpose and process of a study and provide written agreement without being coerced.

Confidentiality and Anonymity

The ethical requirement to keep participant data and identity concealed from unconcerned parties and stored within a secure filing system.

Non-maleficence

An ethical research principle stating that a study must do no harm to any participant.

Beneficence

An ethical research principle requiring that a study involving human subjects must provide clear benefits to be considered worth implementing.

Distributive Justice

An ethical principle ensuring that research does not disadvantage marginalized or oppressed groups and that study benefits are shared by all.

Human Ecology

A field of study recognizing the interplay among internal and external environments (physical, socio-economic, cultural) and how they influence human development across the lifespan.