Social Class, Social Change, and Gender
Social Class, Social Change, and Gender
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社会阶层、社会变革和性别
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1993
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J. Ostrove
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A. Stewart;J. Ostrove
本文探讨了20世纪40年代末和60年代初就读拉德克利夫学院的女性的社会阶级背景对她们生活的影响。我们将社会阶层视为影响个人如何理解世界的“文化”，考察了拉德克利夫学院女性经历中的社会阶层背景和群体差异、她们的成年生活模式、她们对女性角色的建构以及妇女运动对她们生活的影响。结果表明，两组中来自工薪阶层背景的女性在拉德克利夫学院都感到被疏远了。跨社会阶层的群体差异反映了女性在离婚率、生育、教育水平和职业活动方面角色的广泛社会变化。几乎没有什么社会阶层特有的社会变化，但是在1964届的女性中存在着一些社会阶层差异。这些差异表明，来自工薪阶层背景的女性对女性的婚姻角色持怀疑态度，而来自中上层社会背景的女性则持更积极的态度。也许正是由于这个原因，工人阶级妇女报告说，妇女运动证实并支持了她们对中产阶级性别规范的怀疑态度。
This article explores the implications of social class background in the lives of women who attended Radcliffe College in the late 1940s and in the early 1960s. Viewing social classes as “cultures” with implications for how individuals understand their worlds, we examined social class background and cohort differences in women's experiences at Radcliffe, their adult life patterns, their constructions of women's roles, and the influence of the women's movement in their lives. Results indicated that women from working-class backgrounds in both cohorts felt alienated at Radcliffe. Cohort differences, across social class, reflected broad social changes in women's roles in terms of the rates of divorce, childbearing, level of education, and career activity. There were few social class-specific social changes, but there were a number of social class differences among the women in the Class of 1964. These differences suggested that women from working-class backgrounds viewed women's marital role with some suspicion, whereas women from middle- and upper-class backgrounds had a more positive view. Perhaps for this reason, working-class women reported that the women's movement confirmed and supported their skeptical view of middle-class gender norms.