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Cooperation ≠ Consent: How Women React to their Place, based on Social Relations and Ambivalent Sexism

Social Psychology of Gender

ISBN: 978-0-7623-1430-0, eISBN: 978-1-84950-496-6

Publication date: 26 June 2007

Abstract

This chapter examines the tension between interdependence and dominance. First, we briefly review prominent social psychological theories regarding the development and maintenance of status systems. Next we briefly describe how these structures help distribute social power in modern society. We then examine how prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination stem from status systems and interdependence, using the Stereotype Content Model (Fiske, Xu, Cuddy & Glick, 1999; Fiske, Cuddy, Glick, & Xu, 2002). Next, we consider the unique circumstances of gender relations and how they give way to complementary justifications of gender inequality, using Ambivalent Sexism Theory (Glick & Fiske, 1996, 1999, 2001a, 2001b). Last, we review evidence to support our argument that women do not necessarily acquiesce joyfully to the present hierarchical arrangement, but rather guide their choices by their pragmatic alternatives, as dictated by benevolent and hostile ideologies.

Citation

Cikara, M. and Fiske, S.T. (2007), "Cooperation ≠ Consent: How Women React to their Place, based on Social Relations and Ambivalent Sexism", Correll, S.J. (Ed.) Social Psychology of Gender (Advances in Group Processes, Vol. 24), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 99-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0882-6145(07)24005-6

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