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
Summary of The Cultural Context of Cognition: What the Implicit Association Test Tells Us About How Culture Works by Hana Shepherd N.B. This summary is a “follow up” on my reaction to the Implicit Associations Test that I wrote of earlier. I wanted to summarize a journal article that presented a different perspective than mine even though I am still in disagreement with the intention and what I feel is a bias in the tests that… Read More
Reflections on I Need Feminism Because… Becoming A Woman 2: Puberty and Adolescence Growing up, I had enough struggles to keep out of the way, to understand what was going on around me, and to navigate my own way through puberty in junior high and high school. As it was for everyone else, it wasn’t easy for me. I had no conversation with my parents about any of… 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
Reflections On Friere’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Martin-Baro’s Role of the Psychologist, Prillitensky’s Value-based praxis in community psychology (And Personal Reflections On Things I Consider Important) While much has been said and much has been written about scientific objectivity and, in the case of my experience in local television journalism, much has been said regarding journalistic objectivity, sometimes quite passionately to the detriment of the local issues being discussed. Both have their place, but I have never really understood why there… Read More
Outline of a Social Psychology Paper (The beginnings of one….) I. Title. Unintentional Propaganda as Sexism: How Embedded is Prejudice within English Grammar? II. Abstract. The subject of this paper begins to analyze unintentional propaganda that occurs in small groups, the propaganda that is inherent in the grammar and language that perpetuates sexism. For purposes of this study, the language in… 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
Reflections on the Implicit Associations Tests Exercise Harvard’s Implicit Associations Test is interesting, as loaded as an adjective as that is in this case. The visual portion of the test makes certain assumptive social constructs that particular categories of individuals “look” a specific way (I took the gender- science test and the African American-European American test—twice) rather than another. There was no… 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
Summary Analysis of Zorin and Зорин’s Information and Attitude as Products of Journalism and PR Summary. The authors discuss the demarcations between what is considered journalism and what is considered public relations. However, the authors use the professional societies of each to describe, define, and delineate between what constitutes the key elements of each profession. While acknowledging the professional job descriptions of each, the authors also acknowledge that the development… Read More