Asserts that cultural struggle over meaning is an appropriate theoretical framework in which to consider gender representation in music video. Uses gender experience as a context for examining a specific textual practice--the use of the street to represent and express male adolescent experiences. (JD)

Feminization is a term used to describe the current trend for jury decisions to be based on fairness rather than strict adherence to rules. This societal development is identified through the use of psychological theory and research. (DF)

In psychology, experimental studies are susceptible to the biases of the investigator in problem formulation, operationalization, sample selection, and data interpretation. Thus, what we regard as an objective, value-free approach to science is neither unbiased nor value-free. (GC)

Questions whether sex-role attitudes raised income in Acock and Edwards' sample (1982:587) and provides evidence which supports the thesis that occupational structure (not attitudes) determines female income. Concluded that the current challenge for sociologists appears to lie in finding and exploring the middle ground between these two…

The men's movement is discussed as the reaction to condemnation of men by radical feminists. Two major trends in the men's movement, a more visible (hairy men) element that courts public exposure and an academic men's movement, are explored as reactions to social change. (SLD)

Poses questions highlighting tensions needing management in the gendered practice of research. The article maintains that gender is one of the major social relations continually negotiated in social practices and affects the research questions asked, methods used, and data interpretation and implications. (six references) (CK)

Claims as the twenty-first century approaches, counselors will be increasingly called on to assist individuals and society in adapting to changing conceptions of gender. Contends counselors must be aware of the impact of gender on the way in which our society is defined, organized, and functions to do the best possible job for clients. (Author)

Examines the issue of moral relativism as it pertains to conceptualizations of gender effect on moral development. Reviews positions of theorists regarding the importance of formal and contextually relative criteria to the development of moral reasoning. Argues that neither a justice nor a caring ethic alone can solve the problem of moral…

Discussion of problems in library reference services focuses on the influence of gender roles. A historical overview of gender roles in the development of American librarianship is presented that highlights stereotyped views of and attitudes toward women, which the author suggests still have influences on librarianship today. (17 references) (LRW)

Explores several factors central to crying among adult professional women including: origins of conflict between women's experience of emotional expression and "public" tears; gender-related differences in crying and responses to crying; role of reference groups in conflicting attitudes toward crying; and power in the workplace as…

Given the findings that females and males of all ages approach sport from markedly different perspectives, sport sociologists have acknowledged sex differences in sport socialization factors and processes. (Sport is defined in its broadest sense to encompass a range of formal and informal sport, fitness, play, and leisure activities.) It has been…

Provides historical review of gender-based division of labor. Argues that gender-based division of labor served a purpose in survival of tribal communities but has lost meaning today and may be a handicap to full use of human talent and ability in the arts. There is nothing in various art forms which make them more appropriate for males or…

Writings dealing with the basis for the motive behind men's domination of women are reviewed. It is suggested that the development of this motive might be altered if men, as well as women, care for infants. The possibility of greater equality in the family and in the economy is discussed. (Author/EB)

A study of over 200 personal narratives, in which college freshman writers related their experiences of achieving literacy, offered insights into cultural differences in attitudes toward literacy. The activity of becoming literate was fundamentally the same for males and females, but the myths they used to understand and explain their experiences…