Ideology, Experience, Identity: The Complex Worlds of Children in Fair Families

by Barbara Risman

1) Understand the three theories discussed which attempt to explain gender identities: self-gendering, socialization, and active socialization.
 

What does your author think is the best approach?  Why?
 
 
 
 

2) What does it mean to have egalitarian families?
 
 
 
 
 

3) What methods did the researcher use?  What was sample size?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

4) What ideology did the children share?
 
 
 
 
 
 

5) What lived experiences did the children share?
 
 
 
 

6) What identity did the children have?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

7) What conclusion does the author make regarding ideology, lived experience and identity?
 
 
 
 
 
 

THOUGHT QUESTION:

1) Throughout the article, the author uses the phrase, “opposite sex.”   Can parents treat their children egalitarian if they consider them to be opposites?