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However, subsequent research has not fully redeemed the promise of the NSM, failing to seriously engage the theoretical implications of studying hegemony. This article addresses the lacunae by presenting a theoretically informed analysis of life history interviews with Chinese American men. This is accomplished, it is found, through four possible gender strategies: compensation, deflection, denial, or repudiation. Research on sexual harassment in the workplace has followed several trajectories: the extent of sexual harassment, labeling sexual harassment, responses to sexual harassment, and contributing factors to sexual harassment.

Much of this research has been necessarily applied, leaving theoretical frameworks concerning sexual harassment underdeveloped. This research uses the case of the sexual harassment of temporary workers to develop grounded theory to provide a more structural understanding of sexual harassment. While temporary employment has increased dramatically in the past 15 years, researchers This research is based on 68 in-depth interviews from two broader studies on clerical temporary work in Chicago and Los Angeles.

The researchers find that the organization of temporary work fosters sexual harassment through the magnification of asymmetrical power relationships.

Calling on the authors' earlier reconceptualization of gender, they develop the further implications of this perspective for the relationships among gender, race, and class. The authors argue that, despite significant differences in their characteristics and outcomes, gender, race, and class are comparable as mechanisms for producing social inequality.

Considerable attention has been paid recently to the gendering of organizations and occupations. Reviewing literature in the gendered-organizations tradition, the author discusses three of the most common ways the perspective has been applied and The article concludes with some suggestions about how a more useful conception of the gendered organization might be built.

This article argues that systematic comparative analyses of women's strategies and coping mechanisms lead to a more culturally and temporally grounded understanding of patriarchal systems than the unqualified, abstract notion of patriarchy encountered in contemporary feminist theory. Women strategize within a set of concrete constraints, which I identify as patriarchal bargains. Two systems of male dominance are contrasted: the sub-Saharan African pattern, in which the insecurities of polygyny are matched with areas of relative autonomy for women, and classic patriarchy, which is characteristic of South and East Asia as well as the Muslim Middle East.

The article ends with an analysis of the conditions leading to the breakdown and transformation of patriarchal bargains and their implications for women's consciousness and struggles. Doing Gender. Don H. What is Hegemonic Masculinity? Mike Donaldson - - Theory and Society 22 5 Awareness of Dying. Barney G. Strauss - - Transaction Publishers. Joan Acker - - Gender and Society 4 2 Anthony S. Chen - - Gender and Society 13 5 Kevin D.

Doing Difference. No categories Direct download Export citation Bookmark 77 citations. The Epistemology of the Gendered Organization. Dana M. Britton - - Gender and Society 14 3 They enjoy the challenge of sneaking in because Dally hates to do anything the legal way. Once inside, they sit in the chairs by the concession stand, where they meet up with two good-looking female Socs. Cherry Sherri Valance and Marcia have left their boyfriends here at the drive-in because the boy's want to drink and the two girls do not.

The girls are the target of Dally's nasty and rude comments, but he buys them sodas to "cool them off.

Fortunately, Johnny is the gangs' pet, so Dally just stalks off without confrontation. Two-Bit joins Ponyboy and Johnny, and he and Marcia hit it off. Cherry is impressed with Johnny's courage, but she senses something else in Johnny.

She quizzes Ponyboy about Johnny. Cherry's accurate assessment that Johnny's "been hurt bad sometime" prompts Ponyboy to retell the story of Johnny's beating by the Socs.

About four months ago, Johnny was out in a field hunting a football to practice a few kicks, and four Socs drove by in a blue Mustang. They stopped and jumped him, beating Johnny half to death. One of the Socs wore several rings and the rings badly cut Johnny. The beating wasn't what had changed Johnny, it was the fact that they had scared him.

Johnny never walked alone anymore, and he vowed that he would kill the next person who jumped him. The story of Johnny's beating visibly upsets Cherry. She tells Ponyboy that not all Socs are like that, just like all greasers are not like Dally.

She tells him that Socs have their troubles, too, but Ponyboy cannot imagine what worries a Soc might have. The chapter concludes with the line, "I know better now. This chapter introduces the importance of perspective.

The lament that life isn't fair runs throughout this chapter, but now a Soc also brings it forth. Cherry Valance represents the perfect life to Ponyboy. She is a good-looking cheerleader, but she states that the Socs have troubles, too. Her life appears perfect to an outsider looking in, but that apparently is not the case. After listening to the story of Johnny's beating, Cherry does not feel a need to defend the Socs who attacked Johnny, but she feels the need to qualify the fact that not only the greasers have difficulties: "'We have troubles you've never even heard of.

You want to know something? This viewpoint is a measure of his perspective that readers can watch grow and change as the novel continues. The gang is defined again as family: "When you're a gang, you stick up for the members.

If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. Seemingly, none of the families represented by Ponyboy's gang have stuck together. Whether because of death in Ponyboy's case , the departure of a parent or child in Dally's case , divorce, or child abuse, the greasers are searching for a family atmosphere that supports them.

Within the gang, the notion of sticking together, of one unified all , is one of the most important rules. Pony sincerely believes that it's the gang's responsibility to defend one another. The code of honor that protects Ponyboy's gang is held by all: "When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. The gang rule that members must stick together is also part of the driving force of Ponyboy's family. The boys must stick together if they are going to make it on their own — that is, without adult supervision.

Ponyboy continues to struggle with the expectations that he holds for his own family members. Pony craves unconditional love and support from Darry; he also wants Darry to trust that he will do the right thing, not berate him for his lack of common sense.

The fact that Soda is a high school dropout is very disturbing to Pony. He feels that Soda is not living up to his potential and is embarrassed by it: "I never have gotten over that.