Judgement Patterns of the Concept "Feminist" in Society

1. September 22 and September 24 In Today’s lab Follow up with our Introduction We will work with the class data in order to refresh issues of data entry. We will use the feminist data set look at simple demographic information. Descriptives: mean, median, mode, and standard deviation. Independent-Samples t-test One-way Between Groups (Independent Groups) ANOVA (For next week) Factor Analysis (in the week to come) Correlation (in the weeks to come)

2. Theory: A person’s social role identity evokes a unified and distinct pattern of judgement by other people. (Social Role Theory, Eagly & Steffen, 1984). We make judgements about social categories feminist, man, and women. Social Role Theory states that a few basic semantic dimensions would describe the judgement pattern of these concepts. Hypothesis: the category feminist will be distinct in its semantic structure from the categories man and woman.

3. Introduction: Issues to Think About Social Category: Feminist How is feminist viewed by society? How are these views created? Possibilities: Pro-movement advocates Anti-movement advocated Question: Does the concept feminist activate an orderly pattern of evaluations and judgements in others or not? If people’s judgements of the concept have an orderly pattern, then identifying as feminist could have implications for social interactions. Therefore, it is important to assess the pattern of judgements evoked by concepts, terms, or significant symbols.

4. Semantic Dimensions: These are patterns of judgement (impressions) often involving concrete examples of behaviors (exemplars) performed by others, as well as inferences (abstractions)from repeated observations of others’ behaviors(Klein, Loftus, Trafton, & Fuhrman, 1992). Evaluative dimension: This is a general evaluation such as it the concept feminist good or bad? E.g.) pleasant/unpleasant, kind/cruel. Potency: agency to act. These are behavioral characteristics. E.g.) strong/weak, active passive. Instrumental/Expressiveness: Helpful, career orientated, industrious, E.g.)fragile/tough, emotional/rational. Sexuality: Judgements of other to be either erotic and desirable. E.g.) erotic/passionless, sexual/asexual.

5. Introduction What is the problem? How is the concept feminist perceived in society comparatively to the concepts man and woman. Prior Literature? Why is this important, what implications are there for this in society. Look to Social Role Theory Hypothesis? The concept feminist will be judged differently from the concept men and women. But…

6. Introduction How? Different Semantic dimensions. Negatively, positively? Why do you think this? Go to the literature to provide justification. What is the overall plan for testing? We will elaborate on this in the next few weeks. What are your predictions? Use your own judgements

7. Coding for the demographic data. Gender Male=1 Female=2 Faculty Arts=1 Science=2 Other=3 Courses Yes=1 No=2 Semantic Categories Man=1 Woman=2 Feminist=3