Gender sociology

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Under sociology of gender refers to the special sociology that examines what constitutes sex is understood and how gender relations in the course of recent history can be represented. Since the 1990s, research has also been carried out into to what extent “gender” can and should be spoken of.

As part of sociological gender studies (“Gender Studies”), gender sociology is closely interwoven with other disciplines such as philosophy, literary studies, history, education and political science.

History of Gender Sociology

Internationally, gender sociology has been a growing branch of academic literature and research since 1950. In the English-speaking world, the terms gender and gender role were coined, meaning the ascribed forms of masculinity and femininity .

Gender sociology developed in the Federal Republic of Germany from the mid-1970s on from women's research . The first studies of gender sociology can be found in the areas of family and upbringing as well as in the areas of work and occupation. Doris Lucke mentions the following first investigations:

This subdivision of women's and gender studies of the German Society for Sociology (DSG) was founded in 1979 as the "Women's Research Section" and is still one of the sections with the largest number of members. She has been publishing her own series of books since 1989 ( Forum Women and Gender Studies ) and has created a three-volume textbook.

A change in sociological gender research arose in the early 1990s, parallel to the so-called constructivistic turn / linguistic turn taking place in inequality research in sociology, which marks a reorientation from socio-economic to socio-cultural issues. The best known and most controversial work in gender sociology was Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" from 1991.

literature

  • Bettina Heintz (Ed.) (2001): Gender sociology, special issue 41 of the Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.
  • Gudrun-Axeli Knapp and Angelika Wetterer (eds.) (2001): Social localization of the sexes. Social Theory and Feminist Criticism . Münster: Westphalian steamboat.
  • Myra Marx Ferree, Judith Lorber, Beth B. Hess (Eds.) (1999): Revisioning Gender (Gender Lens) Thousand Oaks: Sage ISBN 076-1906177 Review
  • Dorothy E. Smith : A Sociology for Women , Hamburg 1999
  • Theresa Wobbe : Elective affinities. Sociology and women on the way to science . Frankfurt / M. 1997 ISBN 3-593-35712-7

Web links

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  1. ↑ Doris Lucke: The Category Gender in Sociology (September 2003), PDF ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.fu-berlin.de
  2. ↑ Andrea Bührmann / Angelika Diezinger / Sigrid Metz-Göckel (eds.): Introduction to women and gender studies. Work, socialization, gender Verlag Leske + Budrich Opladen 2000; Martina Althoff / Mechthild Bereswill / Birgit Riegraf (eds.): Methodological discussions. Feminist Traditions, Concepts, Dispute Verlag Leske + Budrich Opladen 2000; Sabine Hark (Ed.): Dis / Continuities: Feminist Theory , Verlag Leske + Budrich Opladen 2001.
  3. ^ Judith Butler: The unease of the sexes Suhrkamp Verlag 1991, ISBN 3-518-11722-X .