Spol v raziskovanju: od binarizma in homogenosti h kompleksnosti
Gender in Research: from Binarism and Homogeneity to Complexity

Summary/Abstract: The present discussion brings two cognitive paradigms together, namely positivist and conceptual, with the latter being committed to feminist epistemology. Through research into the scientific reflection of the construction of genders in the education sphere and with the help of concepts that relate to modern conceptualisations of sexes (gender, sexuality, corporeality, power) the two authors determine that gender in the framework of gender dichotomy (women, men) is inappropriately represented and co-constructed. Besides, the homogeneity of the two respective gender groups does not correspond to the level of life experience. The study concludes with a feminist epistemological contribution to gender categorisation in the quantitative sociological research of statistical data entry. The final argument leads the authors to suggest an extension of gender categories that would differentially (according to the theme of research) include transsexual persons and the segmentation of researched gender groups according to multiple relations of social power together with the necessary preliminary epistemological reflection.

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