Similitudini si diferente în reprezentarea socialã a puterii. Perspectiva comparativã femei-bãrbati
Similarities and differences in the social representation of power. Comparative perspective between women and men

Summary/Abstract: The novelty of our research does not necessarily lie in its subject, already approached by Galli, 1989; Nigro, 1989; Acosta Avila, Uribe Patino, 2002, but especially in its purpose, that is the detection of similarities and differences ratio between women and men in social representation of power. Three were the hypostases having guided our investigation: 1. prevail of differences, given men and women particular anchoring to power phenomenology; 2. one's own gender projection of the concerned representation, while objectivising it by assuming either male of female characteristics to power; 3. predominantly negative polarisation of representation. Three were the methods having been used for data gathering: word association, structured interview and semantic differentiator. The group of subjects, 287 first and second year students in Humanities, with an age average of 21.3 years, included 157 women and 130 men. Double quantitative and qualitative analysis of data confirmed the second hypothesis, refuted the first and the third ones, while it further provided for several arguments and exemplifications towards the complexity of this representation.

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