In my study, I examine if and how Sandra Oh’s portrayal of Dr. Cristina Yang in Grey’s Anatomy, a primetime network drama, reifies or resists U.S. mediated stereotypes of Asian American females. I situate my intercultural study in an interpretive paradigm because I am want to explore how the evolving characteristics of existing the Asian American female mediated stereotype as they influence Asian American female identity. Additionally, I trace the historical development of Asian and Asian American stereotypes yellow peril to the model minority; and from Dragon Lady, Lotus Blossom, Geisha, and Suzie Wong. From my textual analysis, I suggest that when portrayals simultaneously reify and resist characteristics of existing Asian American stereotypes, they may help to breakdown perceived binaries of existing Asian and Asian American stereotypes.

There is a growing interest in studying discrimination in Peruvian Social Science. Against this backdrop, this article seeks to assess critically recent empirical research on discrimination in Peru, with an emphasis on racial, ethnic and social discrimination in employment and income, firms, health organizations, education, relationship with public agencies and everyday life. After reviewing the relevant literature on discrimination, this article presents a critical appraisal, taking into consideration the research questions posed, the theoretical frameworks and analytical categories used, the ways in which the notion of «race» is measured, the questions asked to measure discrimination, the manners in which discrimination is detected, and the (debatable) ways researchers interpret their findings. The articleconcludes by highlighting gaps in the literature which should be addressed. / La discriminación, en tanto fenómeno social, constituye un tema de creciente interés en las ciencias sociales peruanas. En este contexto, el presente artículo tiene como objetivo principal realizar una evaluación crítica de esta literatura, poniendo énfasis en la discriminación racial, étnica y social. En la primera parte de este trabajo se presenta la literatura relevante en los siguientes ámbitos: empleo e ingresos, empresa, salud, educación, relación con entidades públicas y vida cotidiana. En la segunda parte se realiza una evaluación crítica, teniendo en cuenta los siguientes ejes: las preguntas de investigación, las perspectivas teóricas y las categorías conceptuales, la forma de medir el concepto de «raza», las preguntas que se plantean para medir el concepto de discriminación, las formas de identificar la existencia de discriminación y las interpretaciones (discutibles) que se hacen de los resultados obtenidos. El artículo concluye sugiriendo vacíos en la literatura, los cuales deben ser atendidos.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2015-12-14T15:38:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 deborafajardopontes.pdf: 1602460 bytes, checksum: 181d50cf0dfba54cfc37b9ebde967401 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2015-12-14T15:55:32Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 deborafajardopontes.pdf: 1602460 bytes, checksum: 181d50cf0dfba54cfc37b9ebde967401 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-14T15:55:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 deborafajardopontes.pdf: 1602460 bytes, checksum: 181d50cf0dfba54cfc37b9ebde967401 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-01-20 / Essa dissertação tem como proposta identificar as representações da sexualidade feminina em revistas brasileiras contemporâneas dirigidas à mulher. O objetivo é verificar o quanto essas representações distam, ou se aproximam, dos estereótipos femininos construídos ao longo da civilização ocidental. O corpus da pesquisa é formado por três publicações de editoras consolidadas no mercado brasileiro: Nova e Lola (já extinta), da Editora Abril, e Marie Claire, da Editora Globo, colecionadas por seis meses – de janeiro a junho de 2013. A fundamentação teórica inclui trabalhos de estudiosos do feminismo, da história das mulheres no mundo ocidental, da identidade como construção narrativa, das interações sociais e da comunicação. A Análise de Conteúdo categorial, como proposta por Laurence Bardin, foi a metodologia usada para analisar o material selecionado. Procedeu-se ainda a uma pesquisa de recepção com leitoras das respectivas revistas, cujo objetivo é averiguar a sua percepção relativa a esse produto. A pesquisa aponta para a ideia de “modernizar para não transformar” - característica encontrada nas revistas e acentuada nas últimas décadas. / The purpose of this dissertation is to identify different forms of female sexuality representation in contemporary Brazilian magazines aimed at female audiences. The specific aim is to verify how much these representations get close or far from long-standing feminine stereotypes built in Western civilization. The research corpus is composed of three publications by some traditional Brazilian printing houses: the Nova and Lola magazines (the last one already extinct) by Editora Abril and Marie Claire by Editora Globo, collected along six months – from January through June 2013. Theoretical fundamentals used in this work include results of research about feminism, the history of women in the Western world, identity as a narrative construction, social interactions and communication. Categorical content analysis, as a proposal by Laurence Bardin was the methodology used to analyze the selected material. A research work about the reception of this product has also been conducted. The overall conclusion suggests the existence of an idea of “modernizing in order not to transform” a characteristic that has been found in magazines and seems to have been highlighted in the last decades.

Syftet med forskningsstudien har varit att undersöka hur kvinnor och män representeras i branschtidningen Veckans Affärer och om det går att se några konkreta skillnader och i så fall vilka dessa är. Studiens fokus har tagit avstamp i hur representation av de båda könen skett över tid mellan 2011 till år 2017. Den frågeställning som varit målet att besvara är följande: Hur porträtteras kvinnor och män i branschtidningen Veckans Affärer mellan åren 2011 och 2017? Finns det skillnader och/eller likheter i hur kvinnor och män porträtteras på omslag för Veckans Affärer över tid?. Representationsteori tillsammans med diskursanalys utgör grunden för den visuella analys som studien baseras på tillsammans med genusrelaterad forskning inom media och semiotik. Det har varit de elementen som utgjort analysen av de 34 tidningsomslag som visar på att män och kvinnor över tid representeras olika. En del omslag ställer sig dock utanför den diskurs som används och visar på att det över tid sker ett skifte i hur män och kvinnor representeras, där skillnaderna mellan hur könen porträtteras i media blir allt färre.Sökord: Genus, Representation, Diskursanalys, Media, Stereotyper, Makt, Veckans Affärer / AbstractThe aim of the research has been to investigate how women and men are represented in the industry magazine Veckans Affärer, and if there are any differences in gender representation, which ones. The study's focus has in the representation of both sexes during the period 2011and 2017. The question to be answered is: How are women and men depicted in the trade magazine Veckans Affärer between 2011 and 2017? Are there any differences and / or similarities in how women and men are presented on the cover of Veckans Affärer over time? Representation theory together with discourse analysis forms the basis for the visual analysis on which the study is based, along with gender related research in media and semiotics. It has been those elements that included the analysis of the 34 newspaper coverings that show that men and women over time are represented differently. Some covers, however, is not part of the used discourse, indicating that over time there has been a shift in how men and women are represented, where the differences between the gender portrayal in the media are becoming less obvious.Keywords: Gender, Representation, Discoure analysis, Media, Stereotype, Power

Diploma thesis "Representation of Vietnamese in the czech newspapers" deals with representation of this ethnic minority living in the Czech Republic in some czech newspapers. Vietnamese are the third biggest group of foreigners in the Czech Republic. They started coming to our republic in 50's by agreements between Czechoslovakia and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Some of them stayed here after 1989 but most of immigrants after 1989 are the new incomers, mostly they come even with families. The reasons of their arrivals are most often better economic situation or better education. The vietnamese community living here is quite reserved so the media are often the only opportunity how to gain some information about this group. But the studies show that Vietnamese living in the Czech Republic get into the media above all in context of criminality. The aim of the survey, done by means of quantitative content analysis, is to chart the representation of the Vietnamese - in what way and contexts the chosen media write about them, eventually find out the fixed ways of presenting the Vietnamese or their stereotypes.

As gender stereotypes could lead to adherence to rape myths later in life, it is important to study the potential development of gender role stereotypes. Based on the theoretical approach of Bandura’s social learning, this mixed methods study sought to expand the literature on children observing gender stereotypes through film viewing. A content analysis of verbal and body language of the highest grossing animated films between 2017-2019 was conducted. The results indicated that most main characters displayed both traditional and non-traditional gender role stereotypes, which is indicative of gender role flexibility. This shows promise that there could be a moderating affect with gender role flexibility, but further research is needed. However, the results found that there was no significant difference between the amount of gender role stereotypes across all the films. It was concluded that there is still a concern for children to be indoctrinated with traditional gender role stereotypes.

This study sought to update the literature on gender and negotiations, generate new information on settlements in negotiations, and provide information on gender and competitive negotiations. The negotiation section of the CAMCO competition was used to determine the influence of gender on negotiated settlement. Settlements did not differ based on the gender of the negotiators, except in scenario two in which it was found that male/male dyads negotiate a less distributive outcome than female/female or mixedsex dyads. In all scenarios, male/male dyads did not settle with an impasse more often than women, and male negotiators in a mixedsex dyad did not negotiate a more winning settlement than women negotiators. The results of the study imply that businesses can feel free to hire men and women negotiators based on their individual qualifications instead of based on their gender. The results also raise some concerns about the perception of differences between men and women based on outdated stereotypes.

Avec cette recherche, nous étudions l’impact de l’ostracisme (sentiment d’exclusion sociale)sur la performance à plusieurs tâches stéréotypées selon si celui-ci provient de personnes demême sexe ou de personnes de sexe opposé. Plusieurs travaux ont pu montrer quel’ostracisme pouvait altérer la performance cognitive (Baumeister, Twenge & Nuss, 2002).Des recherches ont pu également montrer que le fait de réaliser une tâche en même temps queplusieurs personnes de sexe opposé pouvait entraîner une diminution de performance si cettetâche était négativement stéréotypée pour le sexe de la personne c ible (Inzlicht & Ben-Zeev,2000). En référence à ces travaux, nous nous attendions à ce que l’ostracisme entraîne unediminution de performance et à ce que cet effet, pour une tâche négativement stéréotypée, soitd’autant plus fort que celui-ci provient de personnes de sexe opposé plutôt que de personnesde même sexe. Nous avons testé cette hypothèse à partir de 4 expériences : trois réalisées surdes échantillons féminin (avec une tâche numérique) et une sur un échantillon masculin (avecune tâche affective). Une analyse cumulée des expériences réalisées sur un échantillonféminin a également été proposée. Nous ne sommes finalement pas parvenus à valider notrehypothèse. Au contraire, nous avons pu constater que seul l’ostracisme de la part depersonnes de même sexe que soi entraînait une diminution de performances sur une tâchenégativement stéréotypée. Plusieurs pistes sont proposées pour interpréter ce résultat que nousavons pu mettre en évidence à plusieurs reprises. / With this research, we study the impact of ostracism (the feeling of social exclusion) onperformance on several stereotyped tasks, depending on the sex of the ostracism's source.Many researches showed that ostracism could lead to cognitive performance decrease(Baumeister, Twenge & Nuss, 2002). Some studies also pointed out that executing a task atthe same time as members of the opposite sex may cause a decrease in performance, if thetask is negatively stereotyped toward the targeted person (Inzlicht & Ben-Zeev, 2000).According to those studies, we were expecting ostracism would lead to performance decrease,and also that this effect (for a negatively stereotyped task) would be more pronounced,coming from members of the opposite sex. We tested this hypothesis with 4 experiments: 3 onfemale samples (using numeric task) and one on male sample (using an affective task). Wealso proposed a cumulated analysis of experiments conducted on female samples. Eventually,we didn't validate our hypothesis. On the contrary, we observed that only ostracism fromsame-sex persons led to performance decrease on a negatively stereotyped task. We proposeda number of leads to interpret the result we repeatedly highlighted.

MGS / Instittute of Gender and Youth Studies / In spite of the golden age of women which was ushered in by the Berlin Conference of 1995, women continue to be disadvantaged when it comes to public participation, both in the public and private sectors of the society. On a global scale even when they are well-qualified and in spite of the mainstreaming of more women into public life, women remain discriminated against in terms of accessing leadership positions. Despite their positive contribution, women continue to be significantly underrepresented in leadership positions. The aim of this study was to explore on the experiences and challenges of junior female managers at Tshilidzini Hospital in Vhembe District in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Qualitative method was used because it enabled the researcher to gain in-depth information about the challenges and experiences of junior female managers at Tshilidzini Hospital. This study is exploratory in nature. The population of this study consisted of junior female managers. Non-probability purposive sampling technique was used to select the research participants for this study. Ethical principles were considered, to ensure maximum protection of the research participants in this study. Face to face interviews were used to solicit information on the experiences and challenges of junior female managers at Tshilidzini Hospital. Thematic data analysis method was used in this study. The study found that gender discrimination is still widespread in South Africa, despite of the availability of many gender equality policies. The study recommends that policy makers, various government departments and law enforcement agencies makers should strengthen the gender machinery, to ensure that women are not denied an opportunity to take up leadership positions. / NRF

L’objectif général de cette thèse est de contribuer à la compréhension des phénomènes de menaces du stéréotype. Ce travail de thèse tente d’analyser les rôles de l’adhésion au stéréotype, de l’intériorisation du stéréotype et de la conscience de la stigmatisation dans les situations de menaces du stéréotype en fonction de leurs sources. Nous souhaitons montrer que l’impact de ces trois variables sur les perceptions de menaces et sur les performances est fonction de la source de la menace du stéréotype. Pour ce faire, nous avons conduit une série de six études expérimentales.A partir d’une approche multi-menaces, nous proposons dans un premier temps que l’adhésion au stéréotype et l’intériorisation du stéréotype interviennent exclusivement dans les menaces provenant de l’individu. Deux études expérimentales permettent de valider cette idée. Nous examinons dans un second temps le rôle de la conscience de la stigmatisation. Nous postulons que cette variable intervient exclusivement dans les menaces provenant des autres. Quatre études expérimentales permettent de valider en partie cette hypothèse.Cette thèse contribue à la compréhension des rôles de variables modératrices de la menace du stéréotype par l’approche multi-menaces. / The main goal of this doctoral dissertation was to contribute to the understanding of the stereotype threat phenomenon. We analyzed the function of stereotype endorsement, stereotype internalization, and stigma consciousness in the context of different sources of the threat.Our aim was to test whether the impact of those three variables on the threat perception and participants’ performance is affected by the source of the threat.We run six experimental studies using multi-threat approach. First, we hypothesized that the stereotype endorsement and stereotype internalization are involved only in the context of self-as-source stereotype threats. The results of two experimental studies seem to confirm this prediction. Second, we hypothesized that stigma consciousness is involved only in the other-as-source stereotype threats context. Four experimental studies only partially confirmed this postulate.The studies reported in this doctoral dissertation enable to better understand the moderators variables involved in the stereotype threat phenomenon while using multi-threat approach.