The Istanbul Convention adopted in 2011 increasingly represents a subject of ideological, political and legal disputes in Europe. The author first analyzes the content of the convention and the novelties it brings, highlighting the points that have become the subject of conflict and dispute. Then the ratification process is analyzed, which showed that there is serious resistance to its adoption and implementation in Eastern Europe. The paper provides an overview of the situation in individual countries and explains why the document has not been ratified there. The situation is also presented in the countries that have ratified the Convention, but its implementation is still marked by sharp conflicts.
{"title":"Disputes regarding the ratification of the Istanbul convention in Europe","authors":"M. Djurković","doi":"10.2298/soc2204605d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc2204605d","url":null,"abstract":"The Istanbul Convention adopted in 2011 increasingly represents a subject of ideological, political and legal disputes in Europe. The author first analyzes the content of the convention and the novelties it brings, highlighting the points that have become the subject of conflict and dispute. Then the ratification process is analyzed, which showed that there is serious resistance to its adoption and implementation in Eastern Europe. The paper provides an overview of the situation in individual countries and explains why the document has not been ratified there. The situation is also presented in the countries that have ratified the Convention, but its implementation is still marked by sharp conflicts.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68780621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper is dedicated to the analysis of the phenomenon of penal policy of mass imprisonment, which is assumed to be the cause and consequence of increasing social inequalities. The relationship between social inequality, social vulnerability and crime creates complex patterns - direct and indirect mechanisms of interaction that can be observed from different perspectives. Following the idea that deeper social, economic and ideological regroupings and regulations are hidden behind mass imprisonment, the paper investigates the connection between the social position of convicts, penal policy and crime. The neoliberal penalty reform accompanied by the penal policy of mass imprisonment is analyzed in the paper along with the deepening of socio-economic inequality and the reduction of social protection. Criminological approaches also indicate a strong correlation between these factors, emphasizing that they should be investigated through direct and indirect influences that take place in a specific space and time. The most significant disadvantages of unfavorable social environments related to criminal choices and practices are low level of educational activities and achievements, insufficiently structured free time, in one word, lack of social and economic resources that would distance individual self-choices from criminal life options.
{"title":"Social inequality and mass imprisonment","authors":"Olivera Pavićević, Ljeposava Ilijić","doi":"10.2298/soc2204563p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc2204563p","url":null,"abstract":"The paper is dedicated to the analysis of the phenomenon of penal policy of mass imprisonment, which is assumed to be the cause and consequence of increasing social inequalities. The relationship between social inequality, social vulnerability and crime creates complex patterns - direct and indirect mechanisms of interaction that can be observed from different perspectives. Following the idea that deeper social, economic and ideological regroupings and regulations are hidden behind mass imprisonment, the paper investigates the connection between the social position of convicts, penal policy and crime. The neoliberal penalty reform accompanied by the penal policy of mass imprisonment is analyzed in the paper along with the deepening of socio-economic inequality and the reduction of social protection. Criminological approaches also indicate a strong correlation between these factors, emphasizing that they should be investigated through direct and indirect influences that take place in a specific space and time. The most significant disadvantages of unfavorable social environments related to criminal choices and practices are low level of educational activities and achievements, insufficiently structured free time, in one word, lack of social and economic resources that would distance individual self-choices from criminal life options.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68780487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The aim of this paper is to show the systematic relevance of corporeal features of care by drawing upon the experiences of Croatian eldercare workers employed in Austrian and German households through a live-in programme which has recently become a common way of employment for the women coming from the impoverished regions of Europe. Even when eldercare is discussed in the context of growing migration flows, its daily performance and somatic components have rarely been taken seriously enough and productively linked to the global movements. Therefore, the caregivers? experiences are analysed here by relying on the scholarship on ?body work? (activities having human body as working material), which are then contextualised within the larger socio-economic environment of neoliberalism. Since live-ins not only point to, but also ?solve? systematic contradictions in organizing eldercare (e.g., the gap between the desired image of caring environment and practical conditions) - by either covering up the empty spot left by potential providers of care or extending the quality of that care - I argue that attentiveness to the details of the bodies being worked upon is one point of departure from which micro and macro can be analysed in a close correlation to each other, providing a novel bodily insight into world economic restructuring.
{"title":"The bodily ambiguity of social reproduction: Navigating body work in migrant eldercare","authors":"Anita Prsa","doi":"10.2298/soc2204584p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc2204584p","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to show the systematic relevance of corporeal features of care by drawing upon the experiences of Croatian eldercare workers employed in Austrian and German households through a live-in programme which has recently become a common way of employment for the women coming from the impoverished regions of Europe. Even when eldercare is discussed in the context of growing migration flows, its daily performance and somatic components have rarely been taken seriously enough and productively linked to the global movements. Therefore, the caregivers? experiences are analysed here by relying on the scholarship on ?body work? (activities having human body as working material), which are then contextualised within the larger socio-economic environment of neoliberalism. Since live-ins not only point to, but also ?solve? systematic contradictions in organizing eldercare (e.g., the gap between the desired image of caring environment and practical conditions) - by either covering up the empty spot left by potential providers of care or extending the quality of that care - I argue that attentiveness to the details of the bodies being worked upon is one point of departure from which micro and macro can be analysed in a close correlation to each other, providing a novel bodily insight into world economic restructuring.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68780552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In contemporary Serbia, political and economic elite members systematically break the law with impunity. The paper explains this phenomenon by relying on theory and data from legal theory, sociology, and political science. The behaviour of officials in contemporary Serbia can be explained by analysing complex interactions between state law and informal norms that arise from informal institutions of clientelism and corruption. These norms form a parallel normative order (1) composed of mutual expectations regarding the behaviour of others and consequences for not complying with these expectations. (2) It is based on social and political powers that strengthen informal institutions and the normative order. (3) Norms of this order regulate the behaviour of actors, and (4) they are mutually harmonised, with the norm of loyalty central to the normative order. (5) The parallel normative system suspends state law for political and economic actors who respect informal rules while using mechanisms, rules, and resources of state law to sanction violations of informal norms that are considered crucial for maintaining the informal order. The relation between formal state law and the informal normative order is one of conflict, competition, and parasitisation. To elaborate on these findings, we explain the concepts of informal rules, institutions, and orders, along with an exposition and analysis of typologies of their relations. We then present and analyse empirical research data about corruption and clientelism in Serbia. Finally, based on the theoretical framework and the available data, we conclude that there is ample evidence that a parallel normative order is established and sustained in Serbia.
{"title":"Parallel normative reality: The informal order of corruption and clientelism in Serbia","authors":"Danilo Vuković, Bojan Spaić","doi":"10.2298/soc2204519v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc2204519v","url":null,"abstract":"In contemporary Serbia, political and economic elite members systematically break the law with impunity. The paper explains this phenomenon by relying on theory and data from legal theory, sociology, and political science. The behaviour of officials in contemporary Serbia can be explained by analysing complex interactions between state law and informal norms that arise from informal institutions of clientelism and corruption. These norms form a parallel normative order (1) composed of mutual expectations regarding the behaviour of others and consequences for not complying with these expectations. (2) It is based on social and political powers that strengthen informal institutions and the normative order. (3) Norms of this order regulate the behaviour of actors, and (4) they are mutually harmonised, with the norm of loyalty central to the normative order. (5) The parallel normative system suspends state law for political and economic actors who respect informal rules while using mechanisms, rules, and resources of state law to sanction violations of informal norms that are considered crucial for maintaining the informal order. The relation between formal state law and the informal normative order is one of conflict, competition, and parasitisation. To elaborate on these findings, we explain the concepts of informal rules, institutions, and orders, along with an exposition and analysis of typologies of their relations. We then present and analyse empirical research data about corruption and clientelism in Serbia. Finally, based on the theoretical framework and the available data, we conclude that there is ample evidence that a parallel normative order is established and sustained in Serbia.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68780890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A systematic literature review is a desk-based research method that sums up the best available research on a specific question using a rigorous and verifiable methodology. This paper aims to discuss and analyse stages of conducting SLR in the social sciences, from a formulation of a research question, protocol development, literature search, screening, quality assessment, data extraction and synthesis to writing review findings. Research in the social sciences differs from research in biomedicine and the author makes the necessary adjustments to make this method more closely suited to the particularities of the social sciences.
{"title":"Connecting puzzle pieces: Systematic literature review method in the social sciences","authors":"M. Višić","doi":"10.2298/soc2204543v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc2204543v","url":null,"abstract":"A systematic literature review is a desk-based research method that sums up the best available research on a specific question using a rigorous and verifiable methodology. This paper aims to discuss and analyse stages of conducting SLR in the social sciences, from a formulation of a research question, protocol development, literature search, screening, quality assessment, data extraction and synthesis to writing review findings. Research in the social sciences differs from research in biomedicine and the author makes the necessary adjustments to make this method more closely suited to the particularities of the social sciences.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68780965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The increased visibility of transgender people in the past decade has been accompanied by an increase in the level of institutional and general social transphobia in Serbia. The mass media, through which the population of Serbia is mostly informed about transgender people and transgender issues in general, have a significant role in spreading and encouraging transphobia. Texts in print and online media are usually the only source of information about transgender people that reaches the citizens of Serbia. Most of these texts contain offensive, outdated and inadequate terminology. The texts report in a sensationalist manner and do not address transphobia as a serious social problem that transgender people face on a daily basis. In this article, I will deal with the representation of transgender people in Serbian print and online media, as well as the impact of media reporting on the spread of transphobia in Serbia. All texts dealing with the transgender issues and transgender people were collected by searching the digital archive of media texts for 2021 with the help of key words and tags. The collected material is analyzed using the media content analysis method and the critical discourse analysis method. The aim of this research is to determine how print and online media represent transgender people in Serbia and to what extent they influence the creation of prejudices, stereotypes and negative attitudes about transgender people.
{"title":"The influence of print and online media on spreading the transphobia in Serbia","authors":"A. Milanović","doi":"10.2298/soc2203473m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc2203473m","url":null,"abstract":"The increased visibility of transgender people in the past decade has been accompanied by an increase in the level of institutional and general social transphobia in Serbia. The mass media, through which the population of Serbia is mostly informed about transgender people and transgender issues in general, have a significant role in spreading and encouraging transphobia. Texts in print and online media are usually the only source of information about transgender people that reaches the citizens of Serbia. Most of these texts contain offensive, outdated and inadequate terminology. The texts report in a sensationalist manner and do not address transphobia as a serious social problem that transgender people face on a daily basis. In this article, I will deal with the representation of transgender people in Serbian print and online media, as well as the impact of media reporting on the spread of transphobia in Serbia. All texts dealing with the transgender issues and transgender people were collected by searching the digital archive of media texts for 2021 with the help of key words and tags. The collected material is analyzed using the media content analysis method and the critical discourse analysis method. The aim of this research is to determine how print and online media represent transgender people in Serbia and to what extent they influence the creation of prejudices, stereotypes and negative attitudes about transgender people.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68780576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Despite the theoretical and political importance of the relationship between institutional trust and different forms of political participation in Europe, theoretical and empirical focus on post-industrial economies leave the literature wanting of explanations of cross-national variation in political participation. In this article, we test whether levels of corruption influence the relationship between institutional trust and participation. We rely on the 9th wave of the European Social Survey results for an in-depth analysis of the relationship between institutional trust, political participation, and perceived corruption in 27 countries. The multilevel regression analysis results show that the effect of institutional trust on institutionalised political participation (including voting) is moderated by corruption. However, corruption does not moderate the relationship between institutional trust and non-institutionalised forms of participation.
{"title":"Institutional trust, political participation, and corruption: A European comparative perspective","authors":"Jovana Zafirovic, Branka Matijević, Bozidar Filipovic","doi":"10.2298/soc2102336z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc2102336z","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the theoretical and political importance of the relationship between\u0000 institutional trust and different forms of political participation in\u0000 Europe, theoretical and empirical focus on post-industrial economies leave\u0000 the literature wanting of explanations of cross-national variation in\u0000 political participation. In this article, we test whether levels of\u0000 corruption influence the relationship between institutional trust and\u0000 participation. We rely on the 9th wave of the European Social Survey results\u0000 for an in-depth analysis of the relationship between institutional trust,\u0000 political participation, and perceived corruption in 27 countries. The\u0000 multilevel regression analysis results show that the effect of institutional\u0000 trust on institutionalised political participation (including voting) is\u0000 moderated by corruption. However, corruption does not moderate the\u0000 relationship between institutional trust and non-institutionalised forms of\u0000 participation.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45578877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper, we examine the relationship between income and income satisfaction in the pool of developed European economies, for the period between 2002 and 2018. Although the nexus between income and most subjective well-being indicators is frequently investigated in prior studies, the research investigating the relationship between income and income satisfaction over time is non-existing. We find that during the observed period real disposable household income significantly increased, while the satisfaction with household income remained constant. Furthermore, the analysis within hierarchical linear modeling shows that while between-country variations in income affect income satisfaction, this is not the case for income variations over time. Our findings support the notion of the Easterlin paradox, which indicates that in the long-run increases in income do not lead to higher levels of well-being. Explanations for such results may be found in the social comparison theory, hedonic adaptation theory and aspiration level theory: increasing income does not bring positive effects on income satisfaction due to relevance of the relative and not the absolute income, adaptation to income changes, or higher levels of aspirations resulting from income rise.
{"title":"Easterlin paradox revisited: Do increases in income bring higher levels of income satisfaction?","authors":"V. Mentus, Marko Vladisavljević","doi":"10.2298/soc2102220m","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/soc2102220m","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we examine the relationship between income and income\u0000 satisfaction in the pool of developed European economies, for the period\u0000 between 2002 and 2018. Although the nexus between income and most subjective\u0000 well-being indicators is frequently investigated in prior studies, the\u0000 research investigating the relationship between income and income\u0000 satisfaction over time is non-existing. We find that during the observed\u0000 period real disposable household income significantly increased, while the\u0000 satisfaction with household income remained constant. Furthermore, the\u0000 analysis within hierarchical linear modeling shows that while\u0000 between-country variations in income affect income satisfaction, this is not\u0000 the case for income variations over time. Our findings support the notion of\u0000 the Easterlin paradox, which indicates that in the long-run increases in\u0000 income do not lead to higher levels of well-being. Explanations for such\u0000 results may be found in the social comparison theory, hedonic adaptation\u0000 theory and aspiration level theory: increasing income does not bring\u0000 positive effects on income satisfaction due to relevance of the relative and\u0000 not the absolute income, adaptation to income changes, or higher levels of\u0000 aspirations resulting from income rise.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46732146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-23DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-337251/V1
B. Todosijević, S. Ignjatovic
The paper explores gender differences in the perception of appropriate age for reproduction-related life events. Evolutionary theory suggests that age norms are shaped by gender-specific evolutionary challenges. We tested two hypotheses based on the evolutionary rationale. Hypothesis 1 suggests that both men and women believe that women should reach maturity and experience reproduction-related life events earlier than men. Hypothesis 2 claims that men and women demonstrate this tendency asymmetrically. When women estimate the appropriate/ideal age for men, they suggest a higher appropriate age for men than men themselves. When men estimate the appropriate/ideal age for women, they suggest a younger age for women compared to women themselves. In the second part of the paper, we explored the background of these claims by testing the alternative explanations based on ‘social forces’ (culture, socio-economic status, education, age, values). The hypotheses were tested using the 9th wave of the ESS data, totaling around 47 thousand respondents and the sample of Balkan countries was analyzed in more detail. The appropriate age was measured using ‘ideal age’ as the concept which reflects the optimal timing expectations for reproduction-related events: living with a partner, marriage, and parenthood. Respondents were also asked to make judgments about the appropriate age of becoming an adult for men and women. The overall results supported the outlined expectations based on the evolutionary approach. The results did not provide convincing evidence for the alternative, non-evolutionary interpretation of the identified patterns.
{"title":"Gender differences in perception of the appropriate maturity age for men and women: Age norms of reproduction-related life events between the social context and evolutionary foundations","authors":"B. Todosijević, S. Ignjatovic","doi":"10.21203/RS.3.RS-337251/V1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21203/RS.3.RS-337251/V1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The paper explores gender differences in the perception of appropriate age for reproduction-related life events. Evolutionary theory suggests that age norms are shaped by gender-specific evolutionary challenges. We tested two hypotheses based on the evolutionary rationale. Hypothesis 1 suggests that both men and women believe that women should reach maturity and experience reproduction-related life events earlier than men. Hypothesis 2 claims that men and women demonstrate this tendency asymmetrically. When women estimate the appropriate/ideal age for men, they suggest a higher appropriate age for men than men themselves. When men estimate the appropriate/ideal age for women, they suggest a younger age for women compared to women themselves. In the second part of the paper, we explored the background of these claims by testing the alternative explanations based on ‘social forces’ (culture, socio-economic status, education, age, values). The hypotheses were tested using the 9th wave of the ESS data, totaling around 47 thousand respondents and the sample of Balkan countries was analyzed in more detail. The appropriate age was measured using ‘ideal age’ as the concept which reflects the optimal timing expectations for reproduction-related events: living with a partner, marriage, and parenthood. Respondents were also asked to make judgments about the appropriate age of becoming an adult for men and women. The overall results supported the outlined expectations based on the evolutionary approach. The results did not provide convincing evidence for the alternative, non-evolutionary interpretation of the identified patterns.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49220906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper aims to fill the gap in the scholarly literature regarding the way in which the intersection of ethnicity, gender and scientific fields shapes women?s narratives about science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields in a multiethnic environment in Serbia. A qualitative study was conducted, capitalizing on in-depth, semi-structured of twenty semi-structured interviews conducted with university professors from ethnic minority and majority comminties, working in STEM and social sciences and humanities (SSH) field of studies in two state universiteis in Serbia. The findings indicate that ethnic minority female professors from STEM are less open to female students and colleagues in their domains and do not see the need for more women in STEM. This attitude can be traced back to these women having to overcome a ?double jeopardy? and ?symbolic violence? in a very male-dominated field, as they belong to ethnic minority and hat to deal with the lack of or with the denial of recources within institutions. Equal abilities of men and women in STEM was a topic occurring mostly in the narratives of the majority women who mostly adopted a masculine patterns of behavior and tried to become ?one of the boys?. Both minority and majority women agreed that deeply rooted gender stereotypes prevent women from choosing a career in STEM. The research identified the need for more inclusive education programs on all levels and for female role models to steer more women towards STEM.
{"title":"Ethnic minority and majority female academic staff members perspectives on women in stem in Serbia","authors":"Karolina Lendák-Kabók","doi":"10.2298/SOC2101143L","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/SOC2101143L","url":null,"abstract":"The paper aims to fill the gap in the scholarly literature regarding the way in which the intersection of ethnicity, gender and scientific fields shapes women?s narratives about science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields in a multiethnic environment in Serbia. A qualitative study was conducted, capitalizing on in-depth, semi-structured of twenty semi-structured interviews conducted with university professors from ethnic minority and majority comminties, working in STEM and social sciences and humanities (SSH) field of studies in two state universiteis in Serbia. The findings indicate that ethnic minority female professors from STEM are less open to female students and colleagues in their domains and do not see the need for more women in STEM. This attitude can be traced back to these women having to overcome a ?double jeopardy? and ?symbolic violence? in a very male-dominated field, as they belong to ethnic minority and hat to deal with the lack of or with the denial of recources within institutions. Equal abilities of men and women in STEM was a topic occurring mostly in the narratives of the majority women who mostly adopted a masculine patterns of behavior and tried to become ?one of the boys?. Both minority and majority women agreed that deeply rooted gender stereotypes prevent women from choosing a career in STEM. The research identified the need for more inclusive education programs on all levels and for female role models to steer more women towards STEM.","PeriodicalId":43515,"journal":{"name":"Sociologija","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68778633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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