Stereotypes About Men and Masculinity in Cosmopolitan Magazine: A Content Analysis of the “Ask Him Anything” Advice Column

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Celine Isabelle Vaillancourt
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Stereotyped Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Male Stereotypes ◽  
Questions And Answers ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Men And Masculinity

This qualitative study explored the culture of male stereotypes in selected articles of Cosmopolitan magazine. A content analysis was conducted on the “Ask Him Anything: Love Advice From Our Guy Guru: Ky Henderson” column, which appears monthly in Cosmopolitan magazine, from January to December 2013. Twelve articles with seventy questions and answers were analyzed to find implicit and explicit statements about men and masculinity. Fifty-one statements were examined for themes, and four prominent themes emerged: (1) Men and their attitudes and behaviours towards women, (2) Sex – General attitudes and specific actions, (3) Jobs and finances, and (4) Comparisons between younger and older men. The theme of men and their attitudes and behaviors towards women held the most statements, suggesting that the readership of this magazine is expected to focus on men’s behaviours and attitudes towards them, which may put pressure on the readers to cater to these stereotyped attitudes and behaviours. Catering to presumed stereotypical attitudes and behaviours may create or reinforce unequal power structures and put strains on romantic relationships between men and women. Findings demonstrated that stereotyped statements about men and masculinity were contained within Cosmopolitan magazine. Furthermore, certain masculine traits were described as innate or biologically inherent, revealing a prevailing thought that these stereotypical traits are unchangeable in nature.

What Men and Women Want in Romantic Relationships: Empirical Evidence

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Heesacker ◽  
Thomas J. Tiegs ◽  
Donna C. Labarge ◽  
Christina M. Millan ◽  
Alvin W. Lawrence ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Men And Women

The (Mis)Uses of Race in Research on College Students: A Systematic Review

JCSCORE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-41
Author(s):  
Marc P. Johnston-Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Higher Education Journals ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

Race has been one of the most controversial subjects studied by scholars across a wide range of disciplines as they debate whether races actually exist and whether race matters in determining life, social, and educational outcomes. Missing from the literature are investigations into various ways race gets applied in research, especially in higher education and student affairs. This review explores how scholars use race in their framing, operationalizing, and interpreting of research on college students. Through a systematic content analysis of three higher education journals over five years, this review elucidates scholars’ varied racial applications as well as potential implicit and explicit messages about race being sent by those applications and inconsistencies within articles. By better understanding how race is used in higher education and student affairs research, scholars can be more purposeful in their applications to reduce problematic messages about the essentialist nature of race and deficit framing of certain racial groups.

Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Benevolent Deception in Romantic Relationships

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian L. Hart ◽  
Drew A. Curtis ◽  
Nicole M. Williams ◽  
Marissa D. Hathaway ◽  
James D. Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Men And Women

In this study, men and women were surveyed about their attitudes toward the use of white lies and other forms of benevolent deception in their romantic relationships. We predicted that people would be more accepting of telling lies than of having lies told to them. Furthermore, we predicted that women would be more accepting than men of benevolent deception in their romantic relationships. We found that people were more tolerant of telling benevolent lies than they were of being told such lies. However, we found that men, not women, were more accepting of benevolent deception in their relationships.

scholarly journals Family Planning Radio Messages Directed at Men and Women in a Developing Society: A Case Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Alex Eloho Umuerri ◽  
Ngozi Bibian Okeibunor
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Contraceptive Pill ◽  
Family Planning Programs ◽  
Developing Society

The study examined radio family planning messages with particular reference to the nature of the audience influence on communication content by using a chat program on radio in a developing society. The study adopted content analysis research method with a purposive sampling technique and used a radio script having six items for analyses. Results showed that there were more family planning segments for women than for men and, there were more family planning for drugs/pills and materials/implantation than for injection. In addition, there were side effects in the use of family planning just as there were quite a number of frequently asked questions except for condoms-fiesta/kiss. This paper concludes that radio scripts/messages for family planning programs should accommodate more topics/segments of family planning for men and women, specifically, natural methods should be included. Furthermore, radio family planning messages should focus more on the benefits of family planning and specifically the benefits of contraceptive pill and post pill emergency should be examined. Other formats of programs should be employed in the campaign for family planning messages on radio, and development communicators and content developers of radio family planning scripts should explore more areas to make radio messages more robust.

scholarly journals THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CONTENTS OF THE WORLDVIEW OF PEOPLE, INVOLVED IN A MILITARY CONFLICT

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-59
Author(s):  
Yelena I. Barysheva
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Extreme Situation ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
The World ◽  
Inner World ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Global Values ◽  
Good And Evil

The article is devoted to the problem of studying the worldview and features of its components change under extremal conditions. The author studies features of the attitude to the inner world of people involved in a war confl ict, their ideas about good and evil. The sample of the study is 95 men and women of mature age. The article describes results of the qualitative analysis of the experiment participants’ answers. A content analysis of the respondents’ answers gave a representation of the substantial characteristics of the perception and understanding of the world, about the feeling of a comfortable or uncomfortable presence in the world. The statements of the respondents refl ected the characteristics of the value-semantic sphere of personality. The study notes the difference and specifi city in the presentation of the material by men and women, which is consistent with ideas about the characteristics of motionality, the dynamics of experiences, the specifi cs of the reality refl ection by men and women. The transformations that took place in the picture of the world of a person under the infl uence of an extreme situation of a military confl ict show that the experiences have led not only to traumatising the psyche but also to the understanding of the important existential meanings, awareness about the global values. During the study of the substantial features of the picture of the world, a connection was found with the characteristics of the hardiness of a person.

scholarly journals MENGEMBANGKAN KARAKTER PESERTA DIDIK MELALUI PROSES PENDIDIKAN DI SMA NEGERI 2 SIPORA KABUPATEN KEPULAUAN MENTAWAI

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Budi Juliardi ◽  
Ranti Nazmi ◽  
Lira Suryani
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Community Service ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Implementation Team ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Teacher’S Role ◽  
Service Activities ◽  
Questions And Answers ◽  
Teacher's Role ◽  
And Behaviors

Character education is a must for countries that want to make their citizens have good attitudes and behaviors. The goal to be achieved in Community Service activities is to make students aware of the need to have and implement attitudes that have character. In the school environment, the teacher's role is to educate the character of students. Thus, community service activities want to make students aware and want to instill and develop character attitudes through socialization. Socialization is given to provide direct literacy of character education to students. Socialization is filled with questions and answers so that students who are not familiar with matters relating to character can immediately ask the implementation team.

Dentistry Website Analysis: An Overview of the Content of Formulated Questions and Answers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peivand Bastani ◽  
Fatemeh Niknam ◽  
Mahboobeh Rezazadeh ◽  
Giampiero Rossi Fedele ◽  
Sisira Edirippulige ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
International Classification Of Diseases ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Questions And Answers ◽  
Classification Of Diseases

Abstract Background: Analyzing the online medical questions and answer can be considered as a valuable tool for better comprehending mutual contractions between the patients and the caregivers in an online environment. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the content of questions and answers posted on dentistry websites.Methods: A mixed-method study was conducted in 2020. A total of 1182 related questions and answers were included. The data was analyzed quantitatively according to the classification of the questions, main complaints of the subjects and length of the questions and answers using Excel2013. A qualitative content analysis was carried out also for data robustness and triangulation. Results: Of the 1354 questions, 866 of them were categorized into 38 categories according to the main sub-classes of the International Classification of Diseases to Dentistry and Stomatology. Furthermore, the inquiries were allocated to 3 communication styles to present the users` main complaints that included contextual (52.33%), emotional (6.79%) and focal (40.89%) strategies. Results of the qualitative content analysis have led to 6 main themes: seeking the related recommendations of any actions, treatment seeking, information seeking, seeking for causes and reasons, seeking for oral and dental health recommendations and seeking for the dentists’ diagnosis or comments.Conclusions: The present study can be used for designing specific customized websites of dentistry and help the website managers for better optimization of the websites. All these interventions can pave the way for developing teleconsulting in dentistry for middle-income countries.

Unspoken, yet understood: Exploring how couples communicate their exclusivity agreements

2021 ◽  
pp. e20210011
Author(s):  
Megan D. Muise ◽  
Charlene F. Belu ◽  
Lucia F. O’Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
North American ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Direct Communication ◽  
Survey Questions ◽  
Implied Meaning ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

Although monogamy (i.e., romantic and/or sexual exclusivity) remains the most common arrangement for romantic partnerships, there is little research exploring how couples communicate about exclusivity to one another. The current study assessed the ways in which couples discuss and negotiate exclusivity agreements, and whether those agreements change over time. Participants were 573 North American adults (mean age = 28.86 years; 52% identified as female) in romantic relationships who completed an online survey asking them to describe their current exclusivity agreements using both structured and open-ended survey questions. Open-ended data were subjected to inductive content analysis, and eight primary themes were identified. Although most (91%) indicated that they have an agreement to remain romantically and sexually exclusive in their relationships, only 43% reported coming to the agreement during an explicit conversation with their partner. More often (52%) the agreements were described as implied, meaning they had never actually been discussed. Of those with exclusivity agreements, 87% reported no change to their agreement throughout the relationship. Implications are discussed in terms of the value of direct communication between partners about exclusivity and infidelity.

A Touch of the Hand

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-191
Author(s):  
Kimberly Cox
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Elizabeth Gaskell ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Anne Bronte ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Emotional Intimacy ◽  
Embodied Communication

Kimberly Cox, “A Touch of the Hand: Manual Intercourse in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” (pp. 161–191) Characters in the works of Anne Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, and Bram Stoker communicated their passions, reciprocated desires, and negotiated the power dynamics of their social and romantic relationships through their hands. Despite the recent work on Victorian hand studies, little attention has been paid to such moments when characters’ hands touch. This essay introduces the term “manual intercourse” as a way of referring to all literary depictions of tactile encounters (whether handshakes, caresses, uninvited grasps, or other accidental manual interactions) while acknowledging the silent, embodied communication and exchange inherent in such moments of physical connection. Taking Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) as an example par excellence, this essay explores how reading a novel through characters’ manual intercourse opens new ways of understanding and interpreting intense moments of emotional intimacy that language fails to represent adequately. Since emotions can be communicated through the quality, pressure, duration, and circumstance of a touch, manual intercourse in such novels allows for the possibility of excess sentiment that cannot be simply expressed through speech. Further, though nineteenth-century etiquette books dedicated entire sections to delineating types of handshakes acceptable in certain social situations, this essay suggests that some Victorian novelists challenged traditional gender ideology and the power structures inherent in it through representations of manual intercourse that either adhere to or deviate from traditional handshake etiquette.

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