TY  - BOOK
AU  - Howard,Judith A.
AU  - Hollander,Jocelyn A.
TI  - Gendered situations, gendered selves: a gender lens on social psychology 
SN  - 0803956045 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
AV  - HM251 .H72 1997
U1  - 302 20
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Thousand Oaks, Calif.
PB  - Sage Publications
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Personality and situation
KW  - Social exchange
KW  - Symbolic interactionism
KW  - Social perception
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-185) and indexes; Defining social psychology and gender. What is social psychology? Social psychological theories. What is gender? Cross-cutting social positions. A gender lens -- Conceptions of gender in social psychology. Essentialist approaches, socialization approaches, social construction approaches, structural approaches -- Social exchange and related theories. Behaviorism, social learning theory, social exchange theory -- Social cognition. The organization of thought. Thinking : processing information. Constructing gender : behavior and cognition. Social cognition on gender -- Symbolic interactionism. The tools of symbolic interactionism. Who are we? Self and identity -- Gendered selves and identities. Presenting selves in interaction. Interactional repairs. Self-presentation and social structure. Resistance and negotiation -- Altruism and aggression : gendered dynamics of helping and harming others. Definitions. Social psychological explanations of altruism and aggression. Structural patterns of helping and aggression. Coda : helping and harming --. Lessons from opposition -- Reprising a gender lens on social psychology. A case in point. Traces of social psychological theories. Approaches to gender. Final messages for the reader
ER  -