Reflections on Qualitative Research and Bailey, Steeves, Regan’s Negotiating With Gender Stereotypes on Social Networking Sites; McFerran, Dahl, Fitzsimons, Morales’ I’ll Have What She’s Having: Effects of Social Influence and Body Type on the Food Choices of Others, and ter Bogt, Engels, and Kloosterman’s “Shake It Baby, Shake It”: Media Preferences, Sexual Attitudes and Gender Stereotypes Among Adolescents I’ve contemplated a research topic for a few years, and even mentioned it to new friends at Saybrook as well as family and friends outside of academia because the subject of gender and racism propaganda is a subject that is at once fascinating and deeply disturbing to me, though I don’t think I can combine… Read More
The Psychology of Coordination and Common Knowledge Research Study Review (Or as I would like to call it, The Intersection of Common Knowledge with Sexism and Racism, but that will have to wait for my own research study. This was written in response to a request from the VU University Amsterdam admissions department as part of the Social Psychology master’s degree application. I need to write… Read More
Unintentional Sexism: The influence of language upon media propaganda, individuals and small groups Abstract While propaganda in the form of unintentional influence and the language of sexism has been independently researched, a review of literature reveals no such studies that link these two topics. In this paper, I link these two subjects to study the hypothesis that the language of sexism, embedded within media, unintentionally influences individuals and… Read More
The Language of Sexism Embedded in Media Texts (Once again, I freely admit this isn’t perfect, but from the earlier Goffman Paper to this, I see some marked improvements. I would also like your constructive feedback when you have a chance to read it. This paper is slightly similar to the Research Proposal but there are minor but significant changes to this one… Read More
Research Proposal: Unintentional Propaganda: The Language of Sexism in Media (Once again, I freely admit this isn’t perfect, but from the earlier Goffman Paper to this, I see some marked improvements. I would also like your constructive feedback when you have a chance to read this since I would like to make this a real study that perhaps my followers could participate in at some… Read More
Content Analysis Hypothesis Development (And so the saga continues as I wrassle with determining a proper hypothesis. The below is an indication of how far I have come and ow far I need to go. But I am getting closer.) Original Hypothesis: Individuals and small groups are influenced by intentional sexist propaganda embedded in media texts that influence unintentional… Read More
Survey Hypothesis Development Worksheet: The Propaganda Of Sexism (This is more or less a brainstorming session to begin fleshing out these thesis ideas and, and, and, to satisfy the assignment requirements for Social Psychology. Bear with me folks. It’s getting interesting. And if anyone at all has any suggestions to improve this, please let me know.) Original hypothesis: Individuals and small groups… Read More
Social Psychology Study Rationale Worksheet (At least the beginnings of one) What was the original theory and/or hypothesis that you based your study on? The original theory that I based my study on is the language of sexism, that sexism exists in the grammar and language of English that is discussed in one article by Julia Penelope, Prescribed Passivity: The… Read More
Media Imagery of Women as Reinforcing Propaganda Stereotypes: An Analysis of Literature Media propaganda is vitally important, whether advertising, marketing, movies or television shows, to the reinforcement of stereotyped images of women and persons of color, most of it subconscious and embedded within the very imagery of language that each of us use and the conditioning propaganda that all of us have been subjected to and programmed… Read More