This MA thesis deals with the masculine identity of the three main male characters of Chuck Palahniuk's early novels Fight Club, Survivor and Choke. It consists of two parts. The first theoretical part briefly explores anthropological and sociological notions of masculinity, with the focus on the manhood in the contemporary USA. As such it serves as the theoretical basis for the second part of literary interpretation. There the masculine identity of the three main characters is discussed. As all the three characters experience the same development of masculine identity, the interpretation advances along this progress. Its stages are identity crisis, turning to the traditional male strategies, rejecting those strategies and searching the basis of one's identity in a personal relationship.

Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo verificar como as masculinidades e feminilidades são mostradas, cronologicamente, nos manuais do FLE (Francês Língua Estrangeira), analisando sobretudo as visões sexistas da diferença dos sexos e as relações de gênero. Segundo Scott (1999), a visão sexista dominou durante séculos as análises que se propunham refletir sobre a problemática das diferenças sexuais. Na verdade, tratava-se de uma visão estática do que representava ser homem ou ser mulher nas sociedades ocidentais. Somente a partir da revolução sexual proposta pelo Movimento feminista anglo-americano dos anos 1960 que se começou a pensar em gênero como resultado sócio-cultural das diferenças dos corpos masculino e feminino, percebendo que a identidade de gênero é construída para além do corpo biológico e, além do mais, passível de variações no tempo e no espaço. Para a realização desta pesquisa, selecionamos alguns manuais representativos na história do FLE, mais especificamente seis manuais produzidos a partir de 1960, ano da publicação do manual VIF, que coincide com o início movimento feminista. Para tanto, foi feita uma análise descritiva das imagens e textos pertinentes à pesquisa. Nossa hipótese de partida era a de que encontraríamos dentro desses manuais muito mais visões sexistas do que variações das identidades de gênero. Acreditamos que esta pesquisa é promissora no domínio do Ensino de Línguas Estrangeiras, em especial do FLE, pois pode oferecer aos professores de LE outros elementos de análise e de crítica sobre o livro didático e, conseqüentemente, sobre suas práticas pedagógicas. / The object of this research was to check how male and female chracteristics are chronologically presented in the FFL (French as a Foreign Language) manuals, through the analysis of sexist views of the difference between genders and their relations. According to Scott (1999), for centuries the sexist point of view was predominant in the analyses of sexual differences. In fact, it was a stactic view of the representation of what was believed to be a man or a woman in the Western civilization. Just after the sexual revolution resulting from the American Liberation Movement of the 1960s did one start to reflect on gender as a result of social and cultural-based concepts between male and female bodies, and to notice that gender identity is built beyond the biological body, thus subjected to time and space variations. For the sake of this research , we selected some manuals which are benchmarks in the history of FFL, more specifically six manuals produced as of 1960, year of the publication of the VIF, which coincides with the start of the Liberation Movement. We proceeded to make a descriptive analysis of the images and texts which fit the research. We hypothesized finding many more sexist views in these manuals than variations of gender identities. We believe that this research is very promising in the Foreign Language Studies domain, specially in FFL, for it may offer FL teachers other elements of analysis and criticism of the textbook and, consequently, of its pedagogic practices.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 MARLY RESENDE DE SOUZA MOTINHO.pdf: 2134198 bytes, checksum: 8b1f51c23255d21d4dbc076792216da3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-26 / Based on the foundations of dialectical historical materialism, theorized by Marx and Engels, and authors who shared a conception of society formulated in the principles of social equality and democracy as: Manacorda (2007), Frigotto (2012), Vigotsky (2007), Carvalho (1999), Marx e Engels (2012), Arroyo (2008), Libâneo (2012), Oliveira (2011), Haddad (1993), Brzezinski (2014), Severino (2007), Kramer (2011), Aranha (2006), Engels (2009), Hoffmann (2015), Campos e Campos (2012), Haddad (1993), Oliveira (2011), Lakatos e Marconi (2006), Barbosa e Horn (2008), Severino (2007), Hofmann (2015). Was analyzed at first, the trajectory of early childhood education in Brazil, with his assistencialist basis and poverty combat, including the emergence of women's work with little children and their sexist character. Discussed about this point and the legal ways to break with paternalism in early childhood education as a form to guarantee the right to education provided in the Federal Constitution of 1988. The sexism in early childhood education was another analysis category: its rise, its manifestation, the positioning of combat and the rejection to its existence. For better understanding, it was made an analysis of the children’s rights, researching several authors of early childhood education, in a broadest sense and social issues, such as welfare and sexism. It was punctuated the course of early childhood education in Brazil since the actions in the colonial period to the present day. As the education of young children, is proposed under Brazilian law and how it is in reality. In Brazil, the early childhood education to the Federal Constitution had the assistencialist character and aimed care to the poor children held in philanthropic and religious institutions. In this context the figure of women and their social representation was one of the categories of analysis in this research. As a mother, daycare educator and victim of sexism in early childhood education. Starting 1988, the new Federal Constitution recognized the children's education as a right and in 1996 was recognized by the Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education, as the first stage of basic education, from 0 to 6 years old, that should be offered by public institutions. Since then, the early childhood education has undergone many transformations, and the professional who works directly with the children, once lay caregiver win the educator condition and get the proper training. Teacher education and professional that assists in Early Childhood Education classes had great relevance in this study. In this project we proposed a reality of this research and professional, identifying their profile, their conditions of work and life, as well as public policies for this educational level. To this end it was made a field research using questionnaires to the professionals in the municipality of Senador Canedo, including its literature and documents. After the investigation of the reality experienced by many the professionals who are working directly with children in the Early Childhood Education groups has produced a report on the data collected in the survey. This served as a sample to show the conditions under which is the work with the child in early childhood education, which needs the reality between the teacher’s children, their frustrations, their needs and working conditions, revealing the child care characteristics in kindergarten. / Com base nos fundamentos teóricos do materialismo histórico dialético, teorizado por K. Marx e F. Engels, e autores que compartilham de uma concepção de sociedade pautada nos princípios da igualdade social e da democracia como: Manacorda (2007), Frigotto (2012), Vigotsky (2007), Carvalho (1999), Marx e Engels (2012), Arroyo (2008), Libâneo (2012), Oliveira (2011), Haddad (1993), Brzezinski (2014), Severino (2007), Kramer (2011), Aranha (2006), Engels (2009), Hoffmann (2015), Campos e Campos (2012), Haddad (1993), Oliveira (2011), Lakatos e Marconi ( 2006), Barbosa e Horn (2008), Severino (2007), Hofmann (2015). Analisou-se, em primeira instância, a trajetória da educação infantil, no Brasil, com sua premissa assistencialista e de combate à pobreza, bem como o surgimento do trabalho das mulheres com as crianças pequenas e seu delineamento sexista. Debateu-se sobre a questão presente e sobre as vias legais para se romper com o assistencialismo na educação infantil como forma de assegurar as crianças o direito à educação previsto na Constituição Federal de 1988. O sexismo presente na educação infantil foi outra categoria de análise: seu surgimento, sua manifestação, o posicionamento de combate e o repúdio a sua existência. Para melhor elucidação do tema, fora feita uma análise sobre os direitos da criança, a partir da pesquisa de vários autores da educação infantil, educação no sentido mais amplo e das questões sociais como o assistencialismo e o sexismo. Foi pontuado o percurso da Educação Infantil no Brasil desde as ações no período colonial até os dias atuais. Como a educação de crianças pequenas, está proposta nas leis brasileiras e como ela se encontra na realidade. No Brasil a educação infantil até a Constituição Federal tinha o caráter assistencialista e visava o atendimento às crianças carentes realizados em instituições filantrópicas e confessionais. Neste contexto, a figura da mulher e sua representação social foi uma das categorias de análise nesta pesquisa, como mãe, educadora de creche e vítima do sexismo na educação infantil. A partir de 1988, a nova Constituição Federal reconheceu a educação infantil como direito da criança e em 1996 foi reconhecida pela Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional, como primeira etapa da educação básica e direito da criança de 0 a 6 anos de idade, frequentar uma instituição pública que oferte essa modalidade educacional. Desde então, a educação de crianças pequenas passou por inúmeras transformações, e o profissional que trabalha diretamente com as crianças outrora leigo e apenas cuidador precisou conquistar a condição de educador e obter a formação adequada. A formação do professor e do profissional que auxilia nas turmas de Educação Infantil teve grande relevância neste estudo. Neste projeto, foi proposta uma investigação da realidade desta(e) profissional, identificando seu perfil, suas condições de trabalho e de vida, bem como as políticas públicas para este nível educacional. Para tal, foi realizada uma pesquisa de campo utilizando questionários para entrevistar as(os) profissionais no município de Senador Canedo, pesquisa bibliográfica e documental. Após a investigação da realidade vivenciada por várias(os) profissionais que estão trabalhando diretamente com as crianças nos agrupamentos de Educação Infantil foi produzido um relatório sobre os dados apurados na pesquisa. Esta serviu de amostragem para demonstrar as condições em que se encontra o trabalho desenvolvido com a criança na educação infantil, quais suas necessidades, a realidade entre as(os) educadoras(es) infantis, suas frustrações, suas necessidades e condições de trabalho, revelando as características do atendimento à criança na Educação Infantil.

This diploma thesis compares linguistic and sexist expressions used in adverts and on websites of companies Free Rádio, ÚAMK, Pila Pasák and Rodinný pivovar Bernard. The first part of the thesis provides broad theoretical background focusing on media, media communication, new media, marketing communication, sexism and linguistic aspects of marketing communication. Great deal of attention is paid to pragmatic aspects of advertising language, the communication functions and speech acts in adverts. The work also deals with sexual information in adverts, e.g. types of sexual information used in advertising, its effectiveness, typical sexist expressions but also with legal and ethical frames in advertising. The second part of the thesis are the analyses themselves. The adverts are analysed through a questionnaire that covers pragmatic, semiotic and semantic aspects so that the intersemiotic character of advertising is covered; other issues included are types of sexual information and sexist expressions. The websites are analysed through a questionnaire that challenges the structure of the website, its aim, design, used vehicles of expression, pragmatic aspects of the used language and the presence of sexism. The aim of this thesis is to answer five questions covering such issues as used vehicles of...

The current study examines the effect of religious orientation, social dominance orientation, right wing authoritarianism, and group socialization on the degree to which covert prejudice beliefs are endorsed. This study is novel in that individual and intergroup factors are simultaneously considered. Unlike much of the existing research, the study measures all six types of religious orientation for a nuanced examination of the different approaches to religion and the effect this has on attitude formation and maintenance. The study also demonstrates higher levels of generalizability in that questionnaires were distributed to a diverse sample and also considered many forms of discrimination (racism, sexism, classism, and heterosexism). Additionally, relevant prejudice measures that better represent covert, modern day prejudice are used in the current study. Social dominance orientation (SDO) was strongly and positively correlated with all four types of subtle prejudice. In hierarchical regression modeling, right wing authoritarianism was the strongest predictor variable for all prejudice outcome variables. SDO was the second strongest predictor for all variables except for benevolent sexism. Demographic and religious orientation predictors varied by prejudice outcome variable. Only immanence and intrinsic emerged as significant religious orientations predictors. Multiple regression models with only religious orientation predictors were also conducted to examine the relationship of each religious orientation to each prejudice when the other religious orientations were held constant. Different trends for different prejudice attitudes were found for intrinsic and immanence orientations. Quest orientation was negatively correlated with prejudice and extrinsic religious orientation was positively correlated with prejudice for all prejudice outcome variables. Increasing intolerance with more indiscriminately pro- or anti-religious responding was not elicited. Instead a pattern of increasing pro-religiosity was related to higher prejudice scores. Progressive congregational factors correlated with lower colorblind racial attitudes, benevolent sexism, classism, and homonegativity among congregants.

Burgeoning evidence has shown rapid growth of licensed and ordained female clergy within the Protestant church. Consequently, dual clergy couples have also increased in number. Research has suggested that African American female clergy have experienced greater challenges than male clergy in leadership roles in the church, including social isolation, sexism, and glass-ceiling barriers. Female clergy are also disproportionately affected by mental and physical health complications including depression, obesity, and burnout. Guided by adult personal resilience theory and its tenets of determination, endurance, adaptability, and recuperability, this interpretive phenomenological study focused on exploring the lived experiences of 13 African American female clergy leaders married to male clergy leaders. African American female clergy, recruited through both purposeful and snowball sampling, through interviews shared their stories of living in a dual-clergy marriage. Using Colaizzi's seven-step process of qualitative analysis and coding, two major themes of Resolve and Resilience, and four sub-themes including Barriers to the Church, Multiple Roles, Health and Wellness, and Adaptation were identified. Findings from this research expand the current body of knowledge on leadership and gender roles in the Protestant church, including the need for a greater understanding of the experiences of female clergy in male-dominated congregational and ministerial spaces. Implications for social change include opening conversations regarding the unique experiences of African American female clergy, supporting awareness of the social, mental and physical challenges of female clergy, and engaging in larger conversations about equal access in all areas of church leadership.

In this dissertation, I present three manuscripts in which I integrate race into an ambivalent sexism framework using experimental, correlational, and cross-sectional methods. The first paper tests whether a female's race acts as a subtype to differentially elicit benevolent sexism (BS). Two experiments demonstrated that BS is more strongly associated with White women than Black women. The second paper explores the relationship between protective paternalism (a subcomponent of BS), anti-minority attitudes, and threat. Threat was associated with stronger endorsement of protective paternalism and a corresponding increase in anti-minority attitudes, particularly for White men, implicating BS in the maintenance of racial inequality. Finally, my third study investigated potential real-world consequences of the differential application of BS to Black and White women in the context of police responses to intimate partner violence (IPV). Officers were more likely to file supplemental paperwork for White victims than Black victims, and were most likely to do so when encountering a White victim and a Black suspect. White victims were also written about with a greater "risk focus", consistent with BS. In sum, chapter II establishes racial differences in who receives BS, chapter III demonstrates how paternalistic protections of White women are racialized, and chapter IV reveals how the intersection of BS with racial stereotypes may impact women seeking help from police. This dissertation is the first investigation in the social psychological literature of how race informs the targets, function, and consequences of BS.

<p>Intergroup relations are characterised by favourable and unfavourable biases. Towards one’s own group these biases are mostly favourable – ingroup favouritism. Research has, however, shown that outgroup favouritism, that is, the preference for a group to which the person does not belong, also permeates intergroup relations. Several theories such as social identity theory, social dominance theory, and system justification theory offer explanations of the dynamics of intergroup relations and biases. Despite not strictly being a theory of intergroup relations, right-wing authoritarianism also offers an explanation of intergroup bias by accounting for prejudice and ethnocentrism. Likewise, ideological conservatism has been shown to influence intergroup relations. </p><p>Based within these theories, this dissertation attempts to explain the social-psychological mechanisms regulating in- and outgroup favouritism. More specifically, Study I examines issues of power and legitimacy in relation to social perception and gender. Studies II and III examine the relationships between social psychological variables and affirmative action, which is aimed at diminishing inequalities between social groups. Together, the studies showed that gender plays a role in intergroup bias, both as an independent variable and as an object of social discrimination. Conservative ideologies predicted ingroup favouritism, but variably. Attitudes towards affirmative action were influenced by the way this issue is semantically framed. The results are discussed in relation to the theories of intergroup relations exposed above and the pertinent issue of attitude ambivalence in understanding outgroup favouritism.</p>

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of Psychology, 2007. / Title from second page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-56).

Intergroup relations are characterised by favourable and unfavourable biases. Towards one’s own group these biases are mostly favourable – ingroup favouritism. Research has, however, shown that outgroup favouritism, that is, the preference for a group to which the person does not belong, also permeates intergroup relations. Several theories such as social identity theory, social dominance theory, and system justification theory offer explanations of the dynamics of intergroup relations and biases. Despite not strictly being a theory of intergroup relations, right-wing authoritarianism also offers an explanation of intergroup bias by accounting for prejudice and ethnocentrism. Likewise, ideological conservatism has been shown to influence intergroup relations. Based within these theories, this dissertation attempts to explain the social-psychological mechanisms regulating in- and outgroup favouritism. More specifically, Study I examines issues of power and legitimacy in relation to social perception and gender. Studies II and III examine the relationships between social psychological variables and affirmative action, which is aimed at diminishing inequalities between social groups. Together, the studies showed that gender plays a role in intergroup bias, both as an independent variable and as an object of social discrimination. Conservative ideologies predicted ingroup favouritism, but variably. Attitudes towards affirmative action were influenced by the way this issue is semantically framed. The results are discussed in relation to the theories of intergroup relations exposed above and the pertinent issue of attitude ambivalence in understanding outgroup favouritism.