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Relational Approach and Mixed Methods Research: Constructing Gender Strategies in the Space of Social Inequalities

This workshop presents the rationale as well as the application of sociological relational approach in gender analysis. Sociological relational approach views individuals as fundamentally interdependent and embedded in structural relations of inequality - as Powell and Dépelteau (2013: 2) point out: “individuals (…) cannot be understood, even theoretically, apart from their relational contexts”. Studying gender relationally therefore entails analysing masculinity and femininity in the same frame of reference (Dworkin, 2015: 171) as well as locating individuals and households in the intersections of structural relations of inequality (McCall, 2005). The workshop clarifies the logic of the relational approach to theory and methodology in gender research and in the study of social inequalities. It uses the example of mixed methods (utilising both qualitative and quantitative procedures) analysis applied to explore the relation of gender and class in Croatia, as part of the project GENMOD “Relational gender identities in Croatia: Modernization and development perspectives” (HRZZ-IP-2016-06-6010). The analysis relied on: a) the construction of the individual - male and female - gender strategies in the division of housework, b) developing a typology of household strategies linked to the division of housework, viewed in the context of the totality of household work practices, c) constructing the social space of inequalities in Croatia, and d) projecting the strategies into the space of social class inequalities. Multi-step qualitative analysis used to construct gender strategies is elaborated during the workshop. Its procedures entail three levels of coding and the construction of analytical profiles and tables. They are followed by the explanation of the procedures used to quantitatively construct the social space of inequalities: a utilisation of the Bourdieusian multiple correspondence analysis relying on the multidimensional model of class analysis for hybrid societies developed by Cvetičanin et al (2021). Lastly, the relational logic of understanding gender and class dimension of social inequality is explained.

Relationalism, relational sociology, mixed methods research, sociology of gender, gender strategies, social inequalities

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