Self-fulfilling prophecy?: social expectations analysis regarding gender roles in a selected sexuality education context
- Autores: Joanna Dec Pietrowska, Emilia Paprzycka
- Localización: VII Congrés Català de Sociologia i V Congrés Català de Joves Sociòlegs / Sociòlogues: llibre de resums de les sessions dels Grups de Treball, 2017, ISBN 978-84-8424-611-4, págs. 117-118
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The pronouncement shall concern the presentation of findings the all-Polish research project "Gender in Textbooks".
The aim of the study was to recognize femininity and masculinity patterns and gender roles expectations existed in sexuality education textbooks. The research perspective and analysis categories were defined by the gender concept, which was the condition of the manner of planning the research and analyzing the findings. Following West and Zimmerman we have assumed that sex is a specific basis overlapped by social interpretations and defining some features and behaviours as feminine or masculine is socially conditioned and changeable with reference to time and culture. The research was focused upon the following questions:
How woman and men are presented in sexual education textbooks? Do this messages take into account the variety of the manners of being a woman and man? How is the femininity and masculinity defined and what meanings are they given in the context of professional, private, intimate life and emotional and physical characteristics? Another aim was to recognize the gender stereotypes links with other features i.e. age, ethnic, disability etc.
The analytical perspective was the concept of indirect discrimination and self-discrimination. The research was of a complex nature, i.e. the analysis included all the sexual education textbooks approved for teaching process by the Ministry of National Education in the years 2013-15. Quantitative and qualitative strategies were applied in the research.
The quantitative analysis focused on recognition of a dominant message, the qualitative one – on its contents. All together 1113 visual forms and 11 books were analyzed. The analyzed publications stated that the message is focused upon education to difference and not to variety, bears the stamp of indirect discrimination and may lead to self-discrimination. The masculinity and femininity are defined traditionally and presented in opposition to negatively structured so-called liberal image.
