Kristin Luker
Autor de Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
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Kristin Luker is Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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- Otros nombres
- Luker, Kristin Carol
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1946-08-05
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- female
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- law professor
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- University of California, Berkeley
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Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences: Research in… por Kristin Luker
Required reading in social sciences class in graduate school, but it is not graduate level. Overly simplistic for anyone who already knows anything about science and research.
Once in a while, a book comes along that attempts to answer one question but manages to answer a whole slew of other questions in the process. Kristin Luker has managed to do this with When Sex Goes to School. She spent over 20 years interviewing and observing people in four different towns (two on the west coast, one in the south, and one in the rust belt of the east coast), each embroiled in their own sex education battle. Over the course of these two decades she saw some interesting patterns emerging in the people on both sides of the debate. Although separated by time and space, she found that the conservatives (in favor of "abstinence-only" sex education) and the liberals (in favor of "comprehensive" sex education) everywhere she went bore striking similarities on very basic and substantive levels.
Her findings about both conservatives and liberals are eye-opening, providing an insight into social psyche that does more in explaining the divide than anything I have heard thus far. It is easy to say that liberals are x and conservatives are y, but it is much more difficult to figure out why they are this way and how they became compelled to view the world in such divergent ways. What's more, she discovers many answers when talking to people about sex education that are simple yet easily extrapolated to other issues, supplying a deeper insight into other decisive issues at play today in America. I came away from this book with a much clearer understanding of what it means to be conservative or liberal, and more importantly, I came away with a deeper respect for those on the other side.
What she discovered and what the sex education debate really boils down to is a long-standing social institution: marriage. As she states: "Not only is the debate about sex education based on different but unarticulated views about the relationship of sex to marriage, it also evaluates interventions in light of those values, at the same time mixing together different kinds of harm, because the harms themselves are based on different views of the proper relationship of sex to marriage." While sex education has been with us for about 100 years, these sex education debates are relatively new. Sex did not change, we did. And while we are still in the midst of these changing views of sex, marriage, family, and procreation, the debate is at an epoch in which each side of the debate believes that their views are the ones that society as a whole should accept as the norm. Both sides vehemently feel that what is at stake is the direction that future generations ought to follow.
Her findings about both conservatives and liberals are eye-opening, providing an insight into social psyche that does more in explaining the divide than anything I have heard thus far. It is easy to say that liberals are x and conservatives are y, but it is much more difficult to figure how why they are this way and how they became compelled to view the world in such divergent ways. What's more, she discovers many answers when talking to people about sex education that are simple yet easily extrapolated to other issues, providing a deeper insight into other decisive issues at play today in America. I came away from this book with a much clearer understanding of what it means to be conservative or liberal, and more importantly, I came away with a deeper respect for those on the other side.
What she discovered and what the sex education debate really boils down to is a long-standing social institution: marriage. As she states, "Not only is the debate about sex education based on different but unarticulated views about the relationship of sex to marriage, it also evaluates interventions in light of those values, at the same time mixing together different kinds of harm, because the harms themselves are based on different views of the proper relationship of sex to marriage." While sex education has been with us for about 100 years, these sex education debates are relatively new. Sex did not change, we did. And while we are still in the midst of these changing views of sex, marriage, family, and procreation, the debate is at an epoch in which each side of the debate believes that their views are the ones that society as a whole should accept as the norm. Both sides vehemently feel that what is at stake is the direction that future generations ought to follow.… (más)
Her findings about both conservatives and liberals are eye-opening, providing an insight into social psyche that does more in explaining the divide than anything I have heard thus far. It is easy to say that liberals are x and conservatives are y, but it is much more difficult to figure out why they are this way and how they became compelled to view the world in such divergent ways. What's more, she discovers many answers when talking to people about sex education that are simple yet easily extrapolated to other issues, supplying a deeper insight into other decisive issues at play today in America. I came away from this book with a much clearer understanding of what it means to be conservative or liberal, and more importantly, I came away with a deeper respect for those on the other side.
What she discovered and what the sex education debate really boils down to is a long-standing social institution: marriage. As she states: "Not only is the debate about sex education based on different but unarticulated views about the relationship of sex to marriage, it also evaluates interventions in light of those values, at the same time mixing together different kinds of harm, because the harms themselves are based on different views of the proper relationship of sex to marriage." While sex education has been with us for about 100 years, these sex education debates are relatively new. Sex did not change, we did. And while we are still in the midst of these changing views of sex, marriage, family, and procreation, the debate is at an epoch in which each side of the debate believes that their views are the ones that society as a whole should accept as the norm. Both sides vehemently feel that what is at stake is the direction that future generations ought to follow.
Her findings about both conservatives and liberals are eye-opening, providing an insight into social psyche that does more in explaining the divide than anything I have heard thus far. It is easy to say that liberals are x and conservatives are y, but it is much more difficult to figure how why they are this way and how they became compelled to view the world in such divergent ways. What's more, she discovers many answers when talking to people about sex education that are simple yet easily extrapolated to other issues, providing a deeper insight into other decisive issues at play today in America. I came away from this book with a much clearer understanding of what it means to be conservative or liberal, and more importantly, I came away with a deeper respect for those on the other side.
What she discovered and what the sex education debate really boils down to is a long-standing social institution: marriage. As she states, "Not only is the debate about sex education based on different but unarticulated views about the relationship of sex to marriage, it also evaluates interventions in light of those values, at the same time mixing together different kinds of harm, because the harms themselves are based on different views of the proper relationship of sex to marriage." While sex education has been with us for about 100 years, these sex education debates are relatively new. Sex did not change, we did. And while we are still in the midst of these changing views of sex, marriage, family, and procreation, the debate is at an epoch in which each side of the debate believes that their views are the ones that society as a whole should accept as the norm. Both sides vehemently feel that what is at stake is the direction that future generations ought to follow.… (más)
This is a great book about abortion. The author tried to be as even-handed as possible by using extensive interviews from both pro-life and pro-choice people. Ms. Luker also draws on many public documents as well so this book is thoroughly researched. This is a great, informative book for anyone (pro-life, pro-choice, don't know) because it does show all sides to the debate. In this day and age where the abortion issue is front and center, this is a book everyone should read at least once.
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