Reprezentace genderových kategorií v českém kulturním kontextu

WYROBKOVÁ, Adriana and Lenka ŠKARKOVÁ STOJANOVÁ. Reprezentace genderových kategorií v českém kulturním kontextu (Representations of Gender Categories in the Czech cultural context). In Fedáková, D., Kentoš, M., Výrost, J. (Eds.). Sociálne procesy a osobnosť 2006, Zborník príspevkov. Košice (Slovensko): Spoločenskovedný ústav SAV, 2007, p. 408-418. ISBN 978-80-969628-4-6.

Basic information

Original name

Reprezentace genderových kategorií v českém kulturním kontextu

Name (in English)

Representations of Gender Categories in the Czech cultural context

Authors

WYROBKOVÁ, Adriana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor) and Lenka ŠKARKOVÁ STOJANOVÁ (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Košice (Slovensko), Fedáková, D., Kentoš, M., Výrost, J. (Eds.). Sociálne procesy a osobnosť 2006, Zborník príspevkov, p. 408-418, 11 pp. 2007

Publisher

Spoločenskovedný ústav SAV

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Other information

Language

Czech

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences

Country of publisher

Slovakia

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/07:00022660

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

ISBN

978-80-969628-4-6

Keywords in English

gender categories; social representations; feminity-mascilinity

Tags

feminity-mascilinity, gender categories, social representations

Tags

International impact, Reviewed

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Abstract

V originále

Příspěvek se zabývá reprezentacemi genderových kategorií v Českém kulturním kontextu na základě analýzy volných asociací souboru 220 studentů.

In English

Representations of gender are common knowledge about the sex categories that are present in every culture and are basis for social organisation. In all societies people have their theories about gender that are present in virtually every aspect of life (Unger, 2001). According to the empirical research the five main meanings of femininity and masculinity can be distinguished (for overview Wyrobková, 2005): gender roles, characteristics that differentiate the sexes, attractive characteristics for the opposite sex, gender stereotypes and gender identity. Perception of gender categories seems to be bipolar (Unger, 2001), but theory of symbolic asymmetry claims they differ in the way gender meanings are organised in relation to a common symbolic universe (Deschamps, 1982). Masculine category does not define only males but its meaning is also embedded with a superordinate category of the individual in general. On the contrary feminine category defines only females (Amancio, 1993, 1997, Eagly & Kite, 1987). The scope of the present study was to find out how the gender categories are represented, structured and how they are related toward the superordinate category of human beings among young people in the Czech Republic. The method of free associations was used on the sample of 220 subjects. The both qualitative and quantitative approach in the data analysis was used. The paper is divided into the three parts. The first part offers a brief introduction to the theoretical issues of femininity and masculinity. Further on, the main findings are presented and finally are discussed in the last section.

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Name: Psychologické a sociální charakteristiky dětí, mládeže a rodiny, vývoj osobnosti v době proměn moderní společnosti Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Psychological and social characteristics of children, youth and families, development of the personality in the time of changes of modern society