ANTH 540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Misandry, Surveymonkey, Microaggression Theory
22 Jun 2018
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Questionnaire from last class results
Last class: gender-equality paradox where countries that ostensibly have equal opportunities
see higher incidence rate of gender-stereotypical traits and job choice
Sam et al.'s theory of cultural affordances: operate largely based on cultural shared expectations
oPrestige & status influential in this
owhat is the significant base rate? E.g. political views, in group/out group effects
"valence sampling": predict group attitudes with social psych + cog anthro
oAvailability heuristic, Frequency bias
oAsk participants to list first words that come to mind on a topic and rate mostly
negative/positive /neutral and test for possible modulating effect of different demographic
variables
oMade a similar version of class survey on surveymonkey and used outsourced sample &
sample of medical students
oValence can apply to choice of characteristics as well as wording (i.e. unambiguous to
neutral, ambiguous)
oResponses reflect what men/women expect of their own gender and the opposite
Class results
oBoth men & women mostly positively report on women and negatively report on men
oWomen less strongly valenced for both
oOpposite of "internalized misogyny"
Combined sample results
oMostly same pattern found
oBut women are more vocal
Americans without higher ed.
oMen are more positive in rating themselves than women, but still positive for women
oSame pattern as previous for women
By Political view
oAbout the same, women neutral about men
oIn US: right wing less misandrist
All data
oPeople mostly committed to biological ontology positively rate both
oSocial ontology commitment: rate men more negative
owomen
16-25 mostly positive about women
26-35 negative about women
36 onward bounce back
oMen
Negative ratings Gradually improve with age
Tentative conclusions
oProtective factors against male stigma & ow gender confidence: being over 46, no
university ed, left wing, mostly social views of gender
oWe're neurotic about gender
How does this contribute to well-being?
Culture/gender wars: Rise of identity politics
Micro-aggression construct
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