Gender Stability and Change: The Differential Characterization of Men and Women in Popular Country Music from 1944 through 2012

<p>This research is a longitudinal study of differential depictions of men and women in top country music from 1944 through 2012. The study attempts to understand the gender system as theorized by Ridgeway using the analytic heuristics of cognitive sociologists and the methods of ethnographic content analysts. Findings include the various axes upon which women and men are differentially characterized over time including men and women's behaviors within romantic relationships, involvement in deviance and crime, work and the use of economic capital, their bodies, and differences in cultural capital such as education.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in Social Sciences (M.A.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis (open access)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• Lowe, Clayton Cory

Contributors dc:contributor

• Peggy Hargis
• Eric Silva
• Bryan Miller

• ETD
• Country music
• Gender
• Longitudinal
• Gender system
• Cultural sociology
• Cognitive sociology
• Gender and Sexuality
• Politics and Social Change
• Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies
• Sociology of Culture

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/1299

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-2366