Chapter 1- Lesson 3

• Gender Studies


  A field of study concerned about how reproductive roles are interpreted and negotiated in the society through gender
• Social Research


  The process of investigating social realities
• Research Approach


  The orientation in understanding social realities. This can be qualitative (interpretive), quantitative (deductive), or both
• Ethics in Research


  Considerations in conducting research to make sure that the well-being of the participants is ensured, and that the outcome of the study is sound without undue harm to people involved
• Gender Study


  • It is about looking into, analyzing, and examining society so that we notice power relations in the seemingly "simple things"
  • Gender is a big part of our individuality and society; it is a form of social organization, and it is often unnoticed
  • Gender roles played a big part of social organization
• Gender


  A form of social organization
• Gender Study


  • Emerged from the need to analyze how gender, sex, and sexuality impact our lives, especially how it creates gender inequality
  • Started in the middle of 1970s, after the second wave of feminism as a way to challenge the male-defined and male-centered knowledge
• Gender Roles


  Sets of culturally defined behaviors such as masculinity and femininity
• Diversity and Inclusion


  • Gender roles are socially constructed and are not something that we are "born with"
  • Society, through a lifelong process of normalization, encourages or reprimands behavior to make a child adapt to these social expectations
• Research Process


  A systematic approach in identifying problems, making hypotheses and assumptions, gathering data, and making conclusions
• Qualitative Research


  • Focuses more on the meanings created and interpretation made by people about their own personal or vicarious experiences
• Types of Qualitative Research

  • Phenomenology
  • Hermeneutics
  • Ethnography
• Quantitative Research


  • Focuses more on characterizing a population or a sample, and in some cases, making generalizations about the population based on the behavior of the sample
• Quantitative Research Methods


  • Survey
  • Experiment
• Ethical Principles


  • Informed Consent
  • Confidentiality and Anonymity
  • Distributive Justice
  • Non-Maleficence and Beneficence