Roli Varma, Amit Prasad, and Deepak Kapur
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262033459
- eISBN:
- 9780262255929
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262033459.003.0010
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Information Technology
This chapter analyzes the perceptions of male and female computer science/computer engineering (CS/CE) undergraduate students with regard to gender-related issues. The study is based on in-depth ...
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This chapter analyzes the perceptions of male and female computer science/computer engineering (CS/CE) undergraduate students with regard to gender-related issues. The study is based on in-depth interviews with 150 male and female students belonging to five different ethnic/racial groups. Pierre Bourdieu's concept of “habitus” is used to explain how a set of experiences — in the school and through socialization at home or outside — constitute the “dispositions”of male and females students, which continually reproduce gendered and gendering differences, even though a majority of both male and female students feel that there is no gender difference.Less
This chapter analyzes the perceptions of male and female computer science/computer engineering (CS/CE) undergraduate students with regard to gender-related issues. The study is based on in-depth interviews with 150 male and female students belonging to five different ethnic/racial groups. Pierre Bourdieu's concept of “habitus” is used to explain how a set of experiences — in the school and through socialization at home or outside — constitute the “dispositions”of male and females students, which continually reproduce gendered and gendering differences, even though a majority of both male and female students feel that there is no gender difference.
Robert Levin, Simon Laughlin, Christina De La Rocha, and Alan Blackwell (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262014120
- eISBN:
- 9780262265843
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262014120.001.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Evolutionary Biology / Genetics
The work performed by living systems ranges from photosynthesis to prodigious feats of computation and organization. This book explores the relationships between work and the study of work across ...
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The work performed by living systems ranges from photosynthesis to prodigious feats of computation and organization. This book explores the relationships between work and the study of work across many different levels of organization. By addressing how work gets done, and why, from the perspectives of a range of disciplines, including cell and evolutionary biology, neuroscience, psychology, electrical and computer engineering, and design, it sets out to establish an integrative approach to the study of work. Chapters introduce the biological work of producing energy in the cell; establish inherent tradeoffs between energy and information in neural systems; relate principles of integrated circuit manufacture to work in biological systems; explore the work of photosynthesis; investigate how work shapes organisms’ evolutionary niches; consider the human work of design; describe the effects of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction on work–life balance; and address the effects of environmental challenges (stress) on how humans and animals do work. Finally, chapters draw these studies together and point to future developments.Less
The work performed by living systems ranges from photosynthesis to prodigious feats of computation and organization. This book explores the relationships between work and the study of work across many different levels of organization. By addressing how work gets done, and why, from the perspectives of a range of disciplines, including cell and evolutionary biology, neuroscience, psychology, electrical and computer engineering, and design, it sets out to establish an integrative approach to the study of work. Chapters introduce the biological work of producing energy in the cell; establish inherent tradeoffs between energy and information in neural systems; relate principles of integrated circuit manufacture to work in biological systems; explore the work of photosynthesis; investigate how work shapes organisms’ evolutionary niches; consider the human work of design; describe the effects of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction on work–life balance; and address the effects of environmental challenges (stress) on how humans and animals do work. Finally, chapters draw these studies together and point to future developments.
