Title from PDF of title page. / Document formatted into pages; contains 106 pages. / Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Florida, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. / Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. / ABSTRACT: The relationship between citizenship performance and overall performance and the relationship between citizenship performance and reward recommendations were investigated, with gender and scale type as possible moderators. Two hundred and fifty-four University of South Florida students were used in this study. The majority of these participants were undergraduate, psychology majors, female, and between the ages of 17 and 23. Participants were given statements describing a teacher's performance and were asked to evaluate the professor on citizenship and overall performance and recommend them for rewards. No support was found for the hypothesis that men would have a stronger relationship than women between citizenship and overall performance. No support was found for the hypothesis that men would have a stronger relationship than women between citizenship performance and reward recommendations. Scale type was not found to influence these relationships. / ABSTRACT: These results are not consistent with the shifting standards model. Numerous suggestions are made for changes to the experiment, including performing a field study instead of a lab study. / System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.

A generally untested assumption within the stereotype threat literature is that it is only those individuals who are highly identified with a domain who will be susceptible to stereotype threat. Further, many of the studies on stereotype threat have been confined to artificial laboratory settings and have been conducted on American samples. The current study aimed to develop a measure of domain-identification in order to test this central assumption of stereotype threat theory on a sample of students in a humanities access programme in a South African university. Results indicate that the experience of stereotype threat varies with respect to the combination of 1) the degree of domain-identification, and 2) the degree to which students are aware of negative domain-relevant stereotypes. That is, students who were highly domain-identified and were highly or moderately aware of negative stereotypes performed worse than highly domain-identified individuals who had low levels of awareness of others negative stereotypes about their in-group. / Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.

The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between media, language and gender stereotypes. It assumes that language usage in mass media creates and reproduces gender inequalities. Its main objectives are firstly, to randomly select terms for Zulu women from the chosen TV case study, Kwakhalanyonini. Secondly, selected terms will be analyzed, using the 'transvaluative analysis technique', in order to explain their meaning and hierarchy. This having been done, an attempt will be made to show how the usage of these terms reflect gender stereotypes, by locating women into subordinate positions. A question may well be asked; why Zulu language? I am a native Zulu speaker, with Zulu speaking parents. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1996.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1992. / Title also in Dutch on half-title: Wij en zij. Abstract in Dutch. Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-177).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisor: Stacy Wolf. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Orientador: Sirio Possenti / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T22:04:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gatti_MarcioAntonio_D.pdf: 3111786 bytes, checksum: 303d810bb83ff1f2a9d9bf5a7fc3d5e9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Esta tese consiste num trabalho sobre o funcionamento dos estereótipos de criança no discurso humorístico. Para isso, partimos de pressupostos teóricos da Análise do Discurso de linha francesa (AD), especialmente de conceitos como campo discursivo (Maingueneau, 1984) e cena de enunciação (Maingueneau, 2006). Sabendo que o objeto de estudo dessa tese (os estereótipos de criança nas tiras cômicas) congrega uma multiplicidade de temas, exploramos, no primeiro capítulo, a infância na história da cultura ocidental. Concebendo-a como uma categoria construída sócio historicamente, constatamos que boa parte das imagens pré-concebidas de criança derivam dessa construção. Seguindo a complexidade do objeto de estudo, passamos, no segundo capítulo, a explorar e aprofundar o conceito de estereótipo na AD, constatando que o conceito tem sido pouco explorado nessa disciplina. Avaliamos, portanto, nesse capítulo, a aproximação com outros conceitos da AD e estabelecemos os critérios teóricos e analíticos que envolvem o estereótipo nesta tese. No terceiro capítulo, passamos a analisar os estereótipos de criança nas tiras cômicas, mostrando que uma imagem de criança perpassa boa parte dos textos em que ela é representada: a imagem da "incompletude". Avaliando, porém, que a estereotipia da criança no humor é complexa, isto é, não há uma imagem estereotipada única de criança nos textos humorísticos, analisamos outros estereótipos - como o da criança ingênua - e sua exploração no humor. Compreendendo que a imagem da criança pode ter uma série de funções no discurso humorístico, no quarto capítulo, avaliamos a hipótese de como a criança pode ser um objeto de ridicularização do adulto. Seguindo a complexidade da estereotipia da criança, no quinto capítulo avaliamos como os estereótipos e alguns aspectos da circulação das tiras cômicas são preponderantes para o ethos dos personagens, bem como para os efeitos de sentido dos textos. Por fim, no sexto capítulo, mostramos como várias imagens de criança são fruto de nossa própria "evolução" civilizatória. Assim, tanto no caso da diferenciação da representação de meninos e meninas, como também traços como a falta de higiene são tipicamente oriundos do processo civilizador. Analisamos, assim, a complexidade da imagem das crianças em tiras cômicas. Estabelecemos, porém, que mesmo nessa complexidade, há um diálogo entre as imagens e os estereótipos da criança / Abstract: This thesis consists of a work about the functioning of children's stereotypes in humoristic discourse. In order to achieve this aim, it is based on the theoretical suppositions of the French Discourse Analysis (AD), especially concepts such discursive field (Maingueneau, 1984) and enunciation scene (Maingueneau , 2006). Knowing that the object of study of this thesis (the stereotypes of children in comic strips) gathers multiple themes, we explore in the first chapter, the history of childhood in occidental culture. We conceived it, as a social category historically built: we verified that a good number of these pre-conceived images of children come from this construction. Following the complexity of the aim of this study, we proceeded to the second chapter. Here, we explored and deepened the concept of this stereotype in the AD, verifying that this concept has been explored very little in this discipline. Therefore, in this chapter, we evaluated its approximation to other concepts of AD, and determined the theoretical and analytic criteria that involved this stereotype. In the third chapter, we analyzed the stereotypes of children in the comic strips showing that the image of children surpasses a good part of the texts in which they are represented: an image of "incompleteness". However, we evaluated that the stereotypes of children in humor are complex, that is, there is no unique stereotype of children in humorous texts. then we analyzed other stereotypes - like the naive child - and their exploitation in the humor.Understanding that the image of a child could have a series of functions in humorous speech, in the fourth chapter, we evaluated a hypothesis that how a child could be ridiculed by adults. Following the complexity of the stereotype of a child, in the fifth chapter, we evaluated how stereotypes and some aspects of the circulation of the comics are preponderant for the ethos of the characters, as well as for the effects of the sense of the texts. Finally, in the sixth chapter, we demonstrated how several images of children are the result of our own "evolution in the process of civilization". Therefore, in the case of differentiation of boys and girls, as well as traces such as lack of hygiene, these facts are typically originated in the process of civilization. We have analyzed the complexity of the image of children in comic strips. Therefore, we concluded, that in this complexity, there is a dialogue between the images and the stereotypes of children / Doutorado / Linguistica / Doutor em Linguística

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"April 2004" / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 439-471) / ix, 471 leaves : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences, Discipline of Gender Studies, 2004