Transcript Gender Schema Theory KEY CONCEPTS • Schema • A set of interrelated ideas that guides and organizes the way an individual processes and makes.

Gender Schema Theory
KEY CONCEPTS
• Schema
• A set of interrelated ideas that guides and organizes the way an
individual processes and makes sense of information
• Three types: self schema, group schema, and event schema
• Habitus And Field
• Habitus: subjective social processes . . . a set of acquired patterns of
thought, behavior, and taste
• Field: objective social processes . . . laws or systems of relationships that
may constrain our behavior or attitudes
• Gender Schema Theory
• Gender identities are part of our habitus
• Habitus is structured through interactions with our field
• Fields change, but incompletely
KEY CONCEPTS
• Schema
• A set of interrelated ideas that guides and organizes the way an
individual processes and makes sense of information
• Three types: self schema, group schema, and event schema
• Habitus And Field
• Habitus: subjective social processes . . . a set of acquired patterns of
thought, behavior, and taste
• Field: objective social processes . . . laws or systems of relationships that
may constrain our behavior or attitudes
• Gender Schema Theory
• Gender identities are part of our habitus
• Habitus is structured through interactions with our field
• Fields change, but incompletely
KEY CONCEPTS
• Schema
• A set of interrelated ideas that guides and organizes the way an
individual processes and makes sense of information
• Three types: self schema, group schema, and event schema
• Habitus And Field
• Habitus: subjective social processes . . . a set of acquired patterns of
thought, behavior, and taste
• Field: objective social processes . . . laws or systems of relationships
that may constrain our behavior or attitudes
• Gender Schema Theory
• Gender identities are part of our habitus
• Habitus is structured through interactions with our field
• Fields change, but incompletely
KEY CONCEPTS
• Schema
• A set of interrelated ideas that guides and organizes the way an
individual processes and makes sense of information
• Three types: self schema, group schema, and event schema
• Habitus And Field
• Habitus: subjective social processes . . . a set of acquired patterns of
thought, behavior, and taste
• Field: objective social processes . . . laws or systems of relationships that
may constrain our behavior or attitudes
• Gender Schema Theory
• Gender identities are part of our habitus
• Habitus is structured through interactions with our field
• Fields change, but incompletely
Does it matter if other
people are around?
Can we let her go to
the bathroom
outside?
Does location matter?
Does the baby’s sex
matter?
What happens if
Wilma has two kids of
different genders and
Fred leaves?
How is the addition of
this building a change
in field? How does it
change the decisions
that have to be
made?