Domination masculine et identité de genre
Summary
Status asymmetries between men and women persist even in the most equalitarian societies. This is often taken as evidence for men’s sociobiological predispositions to be naturally driven towards intergroup social dominance (the invariance hypothesis, Sidanius & Pratto, 1999). An intercultural study (France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Tunisia; N = 711) shows that, consistently across cultures, men report higher scores than women for orientation towards social dominance (sdo). However, ruling out the idea that such an invariance ensues from biological determinism, the results of this study demonstrate that gender identity, conceived of as a social and multi-contextualized construct, mediates the impact of biological sex on the scores of sdo in the four cultures.
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Authors:
Armand Chatard, Serge Guimond, Michel Désert
Editors:
Michaël Dambrun
Publisher:
Presses universitaires de Liège, Les Cahiers Internationaux de Psychologie Sociale 2005/3-4 (Numéro 67-68), «Préjugés, stéréotypes et relations intergroupes», pp. 113-123
Languages:
French
City:
Liège
Year:
2005
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Research labels:
Power – hierarchy – domination
Gender identities
Subjects:
Social psychology
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