The Social Psychology of Female-Male Relations

A Critical Analysis of Central Concepts

Richard D. Ashmore, Frances K. Del Boca

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780120652808
• eBook ISBN: 9781483216201
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Discrimination & Race Relations
• Index: Social Sciences

The Social Psychology of Female-Male Relations: A Critical Analysis of Central Concepts covers the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of individuals in social interaction and explicitly considers women and men in relation to one another - as individuals, as representatives of social categories, and as significant social groups. Chapter One lays out the parameters of the social psychology of female-male relations. Chapter Two contains two major insights: that gender identity is a complex, multifaceted construct and that the structure and degree of differentiation of gender identity develop and change over the life course. Chapters Three and Four present a relatively general cognitive social-psychological framework for two important constructs, sex stereotypes and gender-related attitudes. Chapter Five offers a critique of analyses that explain the behavior of women and men in close, personal relationships in terms of sex differences in the individual dispositions of the participants. Chapter Six presents a strong and straightforward critique of the current usage of the term sex role to describe a global set of behavioral prescriptions that apply to all women and to all men. Chapter Seven presents a comprehensive review of research on gender-related patterns of behavior in task groups that cannot be found elsewhere. The concluding chapter summarizes points made in earlier chapters and offers a set of notes toward a theory of female-male relations. Social scientists (especially, psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists) doing research on women, on men, or on women and men in relationships or in social interaction.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• The Social Psychology of Female-Male Relations: A Critical Analysis of Central Concepts
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Chapter One. Toward a Social Psychology of Female-Male Relations
• Part One: GENDER AND THE INDIVIDUAL
• Part Two: GENDER AND INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
• Author Index
• Subject Index