Gendered situations, gendered selves
Subtitle: a gender lens on social psychology
By: Judith A. Howard, Jocelyn A. Hollander.
Contributors: Hollander, Jocelyn A.
Series: Gender lens ;; v. 2
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Social psychology; Sex role; Personality and situation; Social exchange; Symbolic interactionism; Social perception
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-185) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Defining social psychology and gender. What is social psychology? Social psychological theories. What is gender? Cross-cutting social positions. A gender lens; title: Conceptions of gender in social psychology. Essentialist approaches, socialization approaches, social construction approaches, structural approaches; title: Social exchange and related theories. Behaviorism, social learning theory, social exchange theory; title: Social cognition. The organization of thought. Thinking : processing information. Constructing gender : behavior and cognition. Social cognition on gender; title: Symbolic interactionism. The tools of symbolic interactionism. Who are we? Self and identity; title: Gendered selves and identities. Presenting selves in interaction. Interactional repairs. Self-presentation and social structure. Resistance and negotiation; title: Altruism and aggression : gendered dynamics of helping and harming others. Definitions. Social psychological explanations of altruism and aggression. Structural patterns of helping and aggression. Coda : helping and harming; title: . Lessons from opposition; title: Reprising a gender lens on social psychology. A case in point. Traces of social psychological theories. Approaches to gender. Final messages for the reader.