Discourse of First Romantic Love: Gender Scenarios

The sexual, gender and family revolutions of the 20th century led to a massive transformation of the institutions of marriage, family and romantic relationships, and with them to the changes in the concept of romantic love, which continue to this day. In modern society, various and even contradictory cultural models and discourses appear, between which individuals are forced to maneuver, using scenarios that are recommendations, schemes of socially expected actions. An important role in the assimilation, application and further formation of attitudes and practices of romantic love is played by the first encounter with it, which is the starting point in feeling for the boundaries of acceptable behavior and the feelings accompanying it. But what experience do individuals themselves refer to first romantic love, how is it evaluated, and what meaning does it have for them? Does this built experience of first romantic love differ between men and women? This study explores these issues by referring to the informants' discursive experience and reconstructing, based on it, the fulfilled gender scenarios of first romantic love, based on a larger cultural model. Based on 30 narrative interviews, 12 scenarios of first romantic love were found, 7 of which are gender specific. There are no fundamental differences in the understanding of first romantic love between men and women, however, its assessment is more emotionally expressed in women, their scenarios are more positively worked out, while men have more negative and ambivalent experiences in the scenarios. The study also confirms that the cultural pattern of romantic love is indeed blurred and contradictory.

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Exploratory analysis of verbal aggression in romantic relationships among unmarried men and women

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships ◽

10.1177/0265407510397984 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 28 (7) ◽

pp. 1005-1023 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Grace H. Chung ◽

M. Belinda Tucker ◽

Gang Li ◽

Xiaomeng Zhou ◽

Sun Hwang

Keyword(s):

Romantic Relationships ◽

Racial Differences ◽

White Women ◽

Verbal Aggression ◽

Mixed Effects Models ◽

Linear Mixed Effects Models ◽

Men And Women ◽

Linear Mixed Effects ◽

Black And White ◽

Gender Specific

This is an exploratory study that examined verbal aggression in romantic relationships among unmarried Black and White women and men as a function of gender and race. We employed an ecological approach to examine the receipt of verbal aggression separately for men and women at the levels of individual, relationship, and community. We also explored whether gender-specific correlates of verbal aggression interacted with race. Analyses were based on a sample of 212 women and 133 men in non-marital romantic relationships recruited from 21 U.S. cities for a larger study. Linear mixed-effects models revealed that factors related to experiencing verbal aggression differed substantially for unmarried women and men in romantic relationships. Interesting racial differences also emerged distinctly for women and men.

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What Men and Women Want in Romantic Relationships: Empirical Evidence

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e517392007-001 ◽

2006 ◽

Author(s):

Martin Heesacker ◽

Thomas J. Tiegs ◽

Donna C. Labarge ◽

Christina M. Millan ◽

Alvin W. Lawrence ◽

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Keyword(s):

Romantic Relationships ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Men And Women

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Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Benevolent Deception in Romantic Relationships

Journal of Relationships Research ◽

10.1017/jrr.2014.8 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Christian L. Hart ◽

Drew A. Curtis ◽

Nicole M. Williams ◽

Marissa D. Hathaway ◽

James D. Griffith

Keyword(s):

Romantic Relationships ◽

Men And Women

In this study, men and women were surveyed about their attitudes toward the use of white lies and other forms of benevolent deception in their romantic relationships. We predicted that people would be more accepting of telling lies than of having lies told to them. Furthermore, we predicted that women would be more accepting than men of benevolent deception in their romantic relationships. We found that people were more tolerant of telling benevolent lies than they were of being told such lies. However, we found that men, not women, were more accepting of benevolent deception in their relationships.

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Treatment Issues for Divorcing Women

Families in Society The Journal of Contemporary Social Services ◽

10.1177/104438949207300302 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 73 (3) ◽

pp. 142-148 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Martha Haffey ◽

Phyllis Malkin Cohen

Keyword(s):

Treatment Interventions ◽

Developmental Patterns ◽

Marital Separation ◽

Men And Women ◽

Present Treatment ◽

Gender Specific ◽

Marital Crisis

The authors introduce a gender-focused perspective on divorce. They note that men and women are treated unequally in marital separation; identify and point out how three normative, gender-specific developmental patterns place women in vulnerable positions during marital breakup; and present treatment interventions that are growth producing and mobilizing to women during marital crisis.

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Responsible leadership in management education: A design-based research study

EDeR. Educational Design Research ◽

10.15460/eder.1.1.1028 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Saskia Raatz ◽

Dieter Euler

Keyword(s):

Ethical Issues ◽

Management Education ◽

Educational Practice ◽

Modern Society ◽

Research Process ◽

Structured Learning ◽

Responsible Leadership ◽

Mba Programs ◽

Starting Point ◽

Executive Mba

In recent years, the quality of management education in general, and particularly of MBA and Executive MBA programs, has been called into question. There are serious doubts about universities’ ability to give students the competencies they need to deal with complex problems in modern society. One part of the discussion focuses on ethical issues and the process through which students develop values and attitudes. In line with the economic crisis, there has been increasing interest in the development of learners’ attitudes to responsibility. We report the results of a study that starts with an ambitious and yet ill-structured learning goal in a demanding educational practice area: How can pedagogical interventions in management education be designed to promote learners' attitudes to responsible leadership? As a starting point, there are neither consensual definitions of responsible leadership nor substantial theories available to design promising interventions. De-sign-based research (DBR) provides a structured process to deal with research problems, starting with innovative but imprecisely defined objectives and unknown ways to reach them. We introduce the DBR design and describe the research process and results from a project conducted at St.Gallen University’s Executive MBA program. In close collaboration with practitioners, interventions evolved through multiple cycles of development, testing and refinement with the pursuit of theory-building and practical innovation.

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Education as Cultural Frame

10.1007/978-3-030-78885-8_10 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 267-284

Author(s):

John W. Meyer

Keyword(s):

Modern Society ◽

Collective Good ◽

Educational Expansion ◽

Political Society ◽

Cultural Model ◽

Human Right ◽

Economic Interests ◽

Regional Variations ◽

Political Forces ◽

The World

AbstractEducation, both mass and elite, has spread everywhere over recent centuries, generally taking globally standardized forms. The studies in this book address its distinctively compulsory form. It is originally organized for the collective good of religious and later political society, and more recently formulated as a citizen—and later human—right. Educational expansion is global, and greatly affected by worldwide organizations. But regional variations matter too, as education spreads out from the Western core. A key to understanding the diffusion of education is to see it as reflecting cultural and political forces, not principally economic ones that obviously vary greatly around the world. Education reflects a cultural model of a secularized modern society, much more than economic interests and structures, and its commonalities are visible everywhere.

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THE PROBLEM OF GENDER IDENTIFICATION OF ADOLESCENTS IN MODERN SOCIETY

Chronos Journal ◽

10.52013/2658-7556-61-11-11 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (11(61)) ◽

pp. 36-38

Author(s):

Nadezhda Vladimirovna Ageeva

Keyword(s):

Young Men ◽

Modern Society ◽

School Age ◽

Gender Identification ◽

Men And Women

This article examines the problem of the formation of gender identification in young men and women of senior school age in modern conditions of rethinking the traditional images of masculinity / femininity.

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Tävlandet inom idrotten

Forum for Idræt ◽

10.7146/ffi.v28i1.31625 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Jonny Hjelm

Keyword(s):

Behavioral Science ◽

Modern Society ◽

Science Research ◽

Women In Science ◽

Critical Examination ◽

Competitive Sport ◽

Men And Women ◽

Behavioral Science Research ◽

Point Of Departure

The article describes and analyses the behavioral science research on sport in Sweden and how “competitive sport” was treated between 1970 and 2010, as “modern sport” came to be called in Sweden. The point of departure is that sports researchers have not only analyzed but also influenced how sport in associations and schools has developed. In modern society men and women in science have a legitimacy and authority that give them good opportunities to influence opinions and concrete policies. The article describes the fundamental criticism that Swedish sports researchers for 40 years have directed at competition in sport. It is also shown that this criticism has been accompanied by a very positive description of other forms of sport, including games. The article concludes, with a critical examination of the sports researchers’ analysis of “competitive sport”, among other things their superficial understanding of “competition” and the lack of analyses and problematisations of informal competitions.

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