A Double Standard For Hook Up By Risman

A Double Standard In “A double standard for “Hooking Up”: How far have we come towards gender equality?” Rachel Allison and Barbara Risman offer a current study with students from 22 colleges, and universities in the United States. Focusing on, if the students approve of casual sex, and are men and women viewed differently. Allison and Risman are determining if inequality occurs, and if there’s still a stigma with both sexes with casual sexual encounters. “Our results confirm previous research findings that frequent casual sex is still stigmatized among many college students despite the cultural perception of “hooking up” as normative.” (Allison, Risman P, 1202) Kathleen Bogle states in her article “Heterosexual college students no longer
“In addition to exploring gendered altitudinal patterns, we use gender structure theory to explore how individual’s characteristic and normative expectation of campus group affiliations shape attitudes. (Allison, Risman P1. (Abstract) This allows for Allison and Risman to support her study which allows us to see the differences in gender to justify the inequality. The authors proved the support necessary to make their study persuasive. This allowed the reader to understand that gender is a social process, which follow in patterns, and peer expectations that follow with casual sex. It does state current times are more liberated, we still suffer from gender politics within the Universities. Men especially that participate in organized college groups are viewed as the dominant group. Therefore they are not looked at the same as women. The authors in this study do present convincing evidence to support their data. The measure used is are 15 questions given to men and women being asked to compare responsibilities of these behaviors. The sample was 2/3 women, 65% white, and 92.2 heterosexual. ½ of the sample was between 18 and 19 (Results, Risman and
22 colleges and Universities suffice the amount of people needed to make the study relevant. Although I do have reservations, because they mostly speak to individual in sociology classes only, and as well only heterosexual individuals. I would have liked to see same sex partners, and more of explanation of “hooking up”. Is oral sex considered in this category or just penetration? So although the sample group was large. I would have like to see a broader group of people. Some competing explanations that could be put forth may be that although casual sex id looked at as slightly unhealthy for women, when it actually may allow for women to have more sexual agency than actual dating. Maybe women held egalitarian conservative attitudes because although many women may be feminist, they still feel they have to stay in that conservative role. If women were to break gender norms, and stop following our societal sexual scripts. Then maybe we would be less afraid of these social constricts that define women. Society will be less apt to label men as players and women as sluts. However, until both sexes fully understand themselves, we will not accurately be able to characterize each