Thesis (M.S.)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2005. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Jennifer G. Boldry. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 26-29).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2006. / Principal faculty advisor: Margaret L. Andersen, Black American Studies Program. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2004. / Title from title page screen, viewed May 18, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Matthew S. Hesson-McInnis (chair), John B. Pryor, Eros R. DeSouza, Adena B. Meyers, Kathleen McKinney. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-152) and abstract. Also available in print.

Current theories of sexual harassment do not account for all instances of sexual harassment (e.g., not man enough harassment) or third party reactions to sexual harassment such as manager or coworker perceptions of sexual harassment or interactions with the target of sexual harassment. Perhaps taking a step back from specific sexual harassment theories and looking at more general theories of discriminatory behavior can provide some guidance toward a more overarching theory of sexual harassment. The current study applied the Stereotype Content Model (SCM; Fiske, Cuddy, Glick & Xu, 2002) and Behaviors from Intergroup Affect and Stereotypes (BIAS) Map model (Cuddy, Fiske & Glick, 2007) to women who are sexually harassed and the resulting third party behavioral reactions, including perception of sexual harassment. This study attempted to establish the initial relationships between the evaluation of the female target with regard to her competition and status to the other variables in the model: stereotyping (i.e., how observers think about the target - warmth and competence), prejudice (i.e., how observers feel about the target - pity, admiration, envy, contempt) and behavioral reactions (how observers act toward the target - active facilitation, passive facilitation, active harm, passive harm). Higher status targets were perceived as more competent than lower status targets. Competition did not have an effect on perceptions of the target's warmth. Competition and status did not predict emotions and behavioral reactions as hypothesized; however many other relationships predicted by the model between stereotypes, emotions, behavioral reactions and perceptions of sexual harassment were found here, although not hypothesized in the current study. Targets who were perceived as warm and competent elicited more facilitation and less harm than those who were perceived as less warm and less competent. Targets that were admired and pitied elicited more facilitation whereas targets that were contempted or envied elicited more harm. Additionally, warmth, competence, admiration, and pity were positively related to perceptions of sexual harassment, whereas envy and contempt were negatively related to perceptions of sexual harassment. Targets who were perceived as having been sexually harassed elicited more facilitation and less harm. Thus, the model is still useful in understanding how stereotypes (warmth and competence) and emotions (envy, admiration, pity, and contempt) relate to third party behavioral reactions to sexual harassment and perceptions of sexual harassment. Given that competition and status did not predict stereotypes, emotions, behavioral reactions and perceptions of sexual harassment as expected, it may be that these effects are more a function of individual factors such as gender and hostile sexism, rather than out-group evaluation (competition and status). In the current study men and those higher in hostile sexism were less likely than women and those lower in hostile sexism to perceive that the target had been sexually harassed, to perceive the target as warm and competent, to feel admiration or pity for the target, or to engage in facilitation behaviors. Additionally, men and those higher in hostile sexism were more likely than women and those lower in hostile sexism to feel contempt or envy toward the target and to engage in harm behaviors. Future research should examine other methods of manipulating perceptions of targets' competitiveness and status other than occupational characteristics to examine the impact of these out-group characteristics on stereotypes, emotions and behavioral reactions in the context of sexual harassment.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T16:52:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-12-19Bitstream added on 2015-05-14T16:59:39Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000825070.pdf: 737804 bytes, checksum: 9c6c9cce092139dce0c7be6aab226932 (MD5) / A violência, fenômeno multifacetado e socialmente recorrente, há muito invadiu os muros das escolas. Diversos são os relatos sobre manifestações de violência na escola que vão desde a violência simbólica, verbal até a física. Sendo assim, este estudo tem como objetivo conhecer e analisar o que pensam professores do 6º ano do Ensino Fundamental, de duas escolas públicas da cidade de Maringá (PR), localizadas em diferentes bairros e com diferentes históricos de violência, sobre a violência escolar e o desenvolvimento da moralidade humana e suas possíveis relações. A proposta de desenvolver este trabalho, baseado nos aportes da teoria do desenvolvimento moral, teve como alicerce a metodologia de cunho qualitativo hermenêutico. Na pesquisa qualitativa, a palavra hermenêutica refere-se à ciência da interpretação qualitativa do que é dito. Diferentemente das propostas quantitativas, nesse tipo de pesquisa o que mais interessa ao investigador é a análise aprofundada do fenômeno pesquisado. Como instrumento para a coleta de dados utilizou-se a entrevista semiestruturada. Este estudo traz uma breve discussão acerca da violência na escola, indisciplina, bullying, além de discutir as relações entre família e a escola. Aborda, também, a teoria moral de Piaget (1932/1994), resgatando, em especial, conceitos do seu livro O Juízo moral na criança e a teoria de Kohlberg (1992). Em torno da psicologia da moralidade humana, são discutidas brevemente algumas concepções acerca da moral e ética na atualidade, com destaque para as contribuições de La Taille (2006). São ainda retomados alguns conceitos da filosofia, como Kant (1785/2005) em Fundamentos da Metafísica dos Costumes. São estabelecidas, em especial, as possíveis relações entre a Psicologia da Moralidade e a violência na escola, que é o foco deste estudo. Enfim, o presente estudo permitiu concluir que as teorias do... / Violence, multifaceted and socially recurring phenomenon, long raided the school walls. There are several reports of outbreaks of violence in school ranging from the symbolic, verbal to physical violence. Thus, this study aims to understand and analyze what teachers think of the 6th year of elementary school, two public schools in the city of Maringá (PR), located in different neighborhoods with different histories and violence on school violence and the development of human morality and their possible relationships. The proposal to develop this work according to the contributions of the theory of moral development has as its foundation the methodology of hermeneutic qualitative nature. In qualitative research the word hermeneutics refers to the science of qualitative interpretation of what is said. Unlike quantitative proposals, this type of research that most interests the investigator is in-depth analysis of the studied phenomenon. As a tool for data collection used the semi-structured interview. In the first chapter, we conducted a brief discussion about violence in school discipline, bullying, and discuss the relationship between family and school. The next chapter presents the moral theory of Piaget (1932/1994), mainly rescuing concepts from his book moral judgment in children and the theory Kohlberg (1992). Around the psychology of human morality, we also discuss what is moral and ethical to La Taille (2006), briefly cite some conceptions of morality and ethics today and resumed some concepts of philosophy, as Kant (1785/2005) in Metaphysics of customs. In the third chapter, we present the possible relationships between psychology and morality of violence in school, which is the focus of this study. In the fourth chapter we describe the methodology and chapter five we present our results and analysis. Finally, we weave our final considerations. We conclude that theories of moral...

abstract: This research study analyzes the use of piropos as a dominant part of Buenos Aires street culture. Piropos are locally defined as advances made by male strangers toward women in the public sphere, and they typically include: following, staring, unsolicited sexual/romantic comments and physical contact. Although these amorous or sexually expressive advances have been historically viewed as harmless, the local development of anti-piropo campaigns in Buenos Aires indicates that this flirtatious public act is more damaging than previously recognized. The current debate in Buenos Aires concerning the use of piropos in public has rendered this social practice worthy of investigation. Throughout this study, I examine women’s experiences with and interpretations of piropos by utilizing participant observation, surveys, focus groups, and semi-structured individual interviews. I explore women’s diverse emotional and verbal responses to these interactions, and I analyze how the use of piropos has impacted some women’s sense of wellbeing and security in the public realm. In order to demonstrate the effect of piropos on women’s daily lives in the public sphere, I examine the ways in which women alter their behavior in order to avoid piropos. Furthermore, this investigation examines how piropos are often interpreted by female recipients as a public display of gender-based power differences. Thus, I argue that piropos are consistently used to reflect and sustain machismo, and they consequently restrict women’s equal access to public spaces in Buenos Aires. The quantitative and qualitative data presented throughout this thesis unveil the weighty ramifications of a social practice that has often been overlooked. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Social Justice and Human Rights 2015

Positioning itself within policy debates on the best way to deal with disputes in UK workplaces and the (potential) resultant increased interest in mediation, this thesis draws on literature from law, philosophy, psychology and management to add to the growing, but largely theoretically-underdeveloped research on workplace mediation. In this research, mediation refers to a voluntary and confidential process where parties to dispute seek a mutually agreed outcome. This process is facilitated by an impartial third-party mediator. The research offers an empirically-informed theoretical framework exploring the extent to which the use of mediation to deal with bullying and harassment is appropriate. In asking whether mediation is appropriate, it argues that it is necessary to consider whether its use is not only feasible but also fair. Using Rawls’s (2001) theory of justice as fairness to structure the discussion and focusing on cases involving sex, race and sexual orientation it constructs an argument for the use of fairness as a guiding concern for an understanding of mediation grounded in an appreciation of public values and notions of social cooperation. It explores tensions between the nature of mediation and of bullying and harassment to question the extent to which an emphasis on cost/efficiency and empowerment in mediation rhetoric may obscure questions of the privatisation and individualisation of systemic and structural problems. Within this discussion theoretical and practical questions are identified and are then explored through the use of a mixed method research design comprised of a small-scale questionnaire (N=108), interviews (N=20) and focus groups (Four groups, N=16). Samples were purposively recruited and consisted of those over 18 years old with six month’s work experience in a UK workplace (questionnaire/focus groups) and external workplace mediators (interviews). Answers to the questions are offered in the form of a framework comprised of a theoretical model and a practically-orientated schematic. It is argued that the reconciliation of potential conflicts between mediation and bullying and harassment are found in a greater understanding of the way mediation operates in practice. This understanding is guided by an appreciation that different standards of reasonableness apply to different behaviours and that individuals, organisations and the courts have differing levels of responsibility for setting and upholding these standards. In meeting this responsibility it is important an organisation is seen as a party to the mediation process since a threat to fairness arises not from privatisation per se but from a personalisation of problems of organisational and/or societal significance. Rather than reject the use of mediation in such situations it suggests the notion of ‘tailored privatisation’ offering a compromise between the concerns of privatisation and the purported benefits of mediation.

Based on research involving an overview of 44 policies at Canadian universities and 21 interviews with anti-harassment practitioners across the country, this thesis explores the challenges faced by anti-harassment practitioners working with legally defined institutional harassment discrimination policies. Anti-harassment work at Canadian universities is complex because practitioners must negotiate institutional demands set out in policy as well as politicized demands from members of marginalized groups both inside and outside the institution. Interviews with practitioners reveal that their daily work in reactive investigation and mediation of complaints as well as their proactive work in educating campus communities may support the less powerful parties to complaints, rather than focusing only on limiting the institution’s legal liability. Therefore, although anti-harassment practitioners occupy a boundary role as defined by Fraser (1989), their work is not entirely “depoliticizing”. Practitioners’ identities, sense of marginalization, and commitment to activist politics contribute to their position as tempered radicals as defined by Meyerson and Scully (1995), helping to explain their commitment to both institutional prerogatives and to empowering marginalized members of the institution. The advent of neoliberalism has set the stage for the shift of discourses and practices away from those which value equity to those that underscore traditional divisions of power and challenge the demands of so-called “special interest groups’. This shift is underscored by concerns about “political correctness” that arise within institutional communities and the broader social context. Perhaps the most obvious of the changes relates to the shift from a focus on equity and human rights to what is termed the “respectful workplace model”. The inclusion of personal harassment issues in human rights policies shifts the focus of the policies to issues that are not tied to historical oppressions and can potentially deflect attention from the human rights component of these policies. The challenge is to move beyond a legalistic perspective regarding policy development and to consider changes in the broader social context that influence policy change and the work of anti-harassment practitioners. / Arts, Faculty of / Sociology, Department of / Graduate

In order to understand the longitudinal relationships between adolescent psychopathy, bullying perpetration, sexual harassment, and homophobic taunting, data were analyzed from surveys of 544 Canadian teenagers from grades 9 to 12 who took part in the ongoing McMaster Teen Study. The researchers hypothesized a pathway in which psychopathy and bullying were interrelated predictors of sexual harassment and homophobic taunting. Path analysis revealed that the model demonstrated excellent fit and had a significant effect of gender. Psychopathy and bullying perpetration were stable, covarying constructs and psychopathy predicted bullying throughout adolescence. Bullying was more strongly predictive of and concurrently related to homophobic taunting for boys than girls, and homophobic taunting was linked to sexual harassment perpetration for boys, but not girls. Psychopathy predicted homophobic taunting and sexual harassment equally across sexes. Limitations and future directions are discussed and suggestions for counselling adolescents who are high on bullying and psychopathic traits are provided.

Harassment in the workplace Abstract This diploma thesis concerns harassment in labor relations. I deal with problems of mobbing, bossing and sexual harassment in the workplace. The aim is to analyze the overall legal regulation of these problems, including the case law of the Czech courts. Two chapters are also devoted to the defense against these undesirable behaviors. The work takes into account the legal regulation of constitutional, civil, labor, criminal and administrative law. In the area of sexual harassment, not only the Czech legislation but also the regulation of this problem in the Slovak Republic were taken into account. This work is divided into seven chapters. In these chapters, the basic terms are explained and the terms mobbing, bossing are explained. Also there is defense against these undesirable behaviors. The third is to clarify the concept of sexual harassment and subsequent defense. The most important is the analysis of these problems under Czech legislation and in the concept of sexual harassment also a comparison of Czech and Slovak legislation. Key words mobbing, bossing, sexual harassment