Group members and their roles:

• Leader: Tinka Slapničar
• Secretary: Tina Drnovšek
• Reporter: Anja Jamšek
• Timekeeper: Saša Pucelj

 

STEREOTYPED PROFESSIONS

Stereotyping means forming a fixed idea about a person which may not be true in reality. Stereotyping is

present in our society and is influenced by many different factors, such as religion, education, media, politics.
Stereotypes have a huge impact on our lives and our work. This is especially felt by those who have occupations 

that are typical for the opposite sex. For example there are still more salesgirls or female hairdresers and there are
more male mechanics. A man doing a typically female job may face negative reactions from his co-workers. 
 
(source:Hornby, A.S. (2003) Oxford advanced learner's dictionary of current english, Oxford)

 

 QUESTIONS:

1. What is a stereotype?
2. Which professions are typical for women and which for men?
3. Why did stereotypes appear?
4. Why do stereotypes still exist?
5. Do people who have stereotyped professions face any problems?
6. Are stereotypes about professions today more powerful than in the past?

 
 
Distribution of tasks:
 
 
Saša wrote the introduction, conclusion, and explained what stereotypes and sexual stereotypes are, 
Tina did the questionnaire and wrote about origin of stereotypes, 
Tinka did the first interview and the part about stereotyped professions today and 
Anja did the second interview and the part about the creation of stereotypic professions. 
 
List of literature:
# Giddens, Anthony(1993): Sociology. Cambridge, Polity Press.

# Jogan, M. (2001): Seksizem v vsakdanjem življenju. Znanstvena knjižnjica  Fakulteta za družbene vede, Ljubljana.

#Milharčič Hladnik, Mirjam (1995): Šolstvo in učiteljice na Slovenskem. Znanstveno in publicistično središče, Ljubljana.

#Šadl, Zdenka (2002): Emocionalno delo v storitvenih organizacijah, Teorija in praksa, year 39, p: 49-80.

#Watson J., Tony (2003): Sociology, work and industry. Routledge, New York. 

GLOSSARY:

Stereotype (noun) - to form a fixed idea about a person which may not be true in reality (stereotip)

Stratification –  »the division of society into strata based on social position or class« (družbena razslojenost)

Discrimination (noun) – against somebody: the practice of treating somebody or particular group in society less fairly than others (razlikovanje)

Sexism (noun) – the unfair treatment of woman because of their sex (neprimerno obnašanje do oseb ženskega spola)

Division of labour (phrase in political economy) – »the division of a process of manufacture or an employment into parts, each of which is performed by a particular person« (delitev dela)

Emancipated (adjective) – to be with the same rights and opportunities like somebody else (emancipiran, enakovredna)

Feminism (noun) – the belief that women should have the same rights as men (feminizem)

Prejudice (noun) – an unreasonable dislike for a person (based on race, religion, sex, etc.) (predsodek)

Segregation (noun) – the act of separating people of different races or sexes and treating them differently (izločitev)

Patriarchal (adjective) – rulled or controlled by men (patriarhalen)

 source:

Oxford English dictionary

http://dictionary.oed.com.nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/cgi/entry/50229731/50229731se130?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=social+stratification&first=1&max_to_show=10&hilite=50229731se130 (accessed  27 October 2007)

Oxford English dictionary

http://dictionary.oed.com.nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/cgi/entry/50067882/50067882se2?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=division+of+labour&first=1&max_to_show=10&hilite=50067882se2   (accessed 27 October 2007)

Hornby, A.S. (2003) Oxford advanced learner's dictionary of current english, Oxford.

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Minutes of the 2nd meeting »Problem Based Learning Project«
held on 18th October, 2007 at the library in Litija
 
 
Present: Tinka Slapničar, Tina Drnovšek, Saša Pucelj, Anja Jamšek
Absent: /
 
Agenda:
1. Action-item follow up
2. Literature search 
3. Distribution of tasks
4. Any other business
  
Item 1:
 We all agreed that the assignments from the previous meeting have been done. We have improved our definition and research questions. 
We decided that we will do a survey among high school students to find out if stereotypes about female and male occupations still exist and 
if they do, how strong they are. We also decided that we will carry out an interview which will help us to answer some of our research questions.
 
Item 2:
 Discussion:
At the meeting all the members of our group brought literature connected with our topic. Based on our decision what our PBL project will contain, 
we all agreed which literature will be used.
  
 Decision:
We found suitable literature for our topic but we will try to find more books and articles for some themes mentioned in our research questions.
 
 Item 3:
 Discussion: 
Our tasks were distributed among the members.
 
Decision: 
We distributed our tasks in a way that all of the members in our group have the same amount of the work. 
 
Assignments: 
We will compose questions for an interview and for a survey together.
Tina and Saša will do a research in a highschool.
Anja and Tinka will contact a person suitable for making an interview.
 
 Item 4:
Discussion:
 Tina proposed that we should hold our next meeting on Wednesday, 24th
of October at 12.00 at the FDV library.
 
Decision:
The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, 24th of October at 12.00 at the FDV library.
 
Minutes taker: Anja J.
Chair: Saša P.

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Minutes of the 3rd meeting »Problem Based Learning Project«

                          held on 26th October 2007 at the library in Litija

Present: Tinka Slapničar, Tina Drnovšek, Saša Pucelj, Anja Jamšek

Absent: /

Agenda:

1. Action-item follow up

2. Distribution of tasks

3. Any other business

We have done all our tasks from the previous meeting, so  the research among high school students about stereotypes and the interview are done.

Because we have got all the needed information, we decided to analyse the questionnaire resaults and the interview. We decided to make another interview to make

our research more interesting. We also created the glossary together.

Item 2:

Discussion:

Our tasks were distributed among the members.

Decision:

We distributed our tasks in a way that all of the members in our group have the same amount of the work.

We will start writting the report together.

Tinka will analyse the questionnaire and Saša the first interview.

Anja and Tina will contact a person suitable for making the second interview and do the interview.

  Item 3:

Discussion:

We agreed that we will hold our next meeting on Monday, 29th

of October at 12.00 at the FDV library.

Decision: The next meeting will be held on Monday, 29th of October at 12.00 at the FDV library.

Minutes taker: Tinka S.

Chair: Tina D.

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Minutes of the 4th meeting »Problem Based Learning Project«

Held on 2nd November 2007 at the library in Litija

Present: Anja, Saša, Tina, Tinka

Absent:/

Agenda:

1. Action-item follow up
2. Distribution of tasks
3. Any other business

ITEM 1:

The distributed work from the previous week was done. We all brought our parts of the report and put them together. The second interview  was done.

ITEM 2:

Discussion:

Our tasks were distributed among the members.

Decision:

Anja will analyse the second interview.

All the members will translate their parts into English.

ITEM 3:

Discussion:

We all agreed that we will hold our meeting on Monday, 5 November 2007 at library FDV.

Decision:

The next meeting will be held on Monday 5 November at 14.00 at the FDV library.

Minutes taker: Saša

Chairperson: Anja

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