White Andrew D, Diekman Amanda B
Indiana University Bloomington, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2025 Jun;51(6):949-966. doi: 10.1177/01461672231204487. Epub 2023 Nov 6.
This research employs a social structural perspective to analyze the content of intersectional social class and gender stereotypes. We investigated how the structural positioning of class and gender categories differentially foster inferences of masculinity and femininity. The social structures that organize class and gender differ: Class is marked by access to resources, and gender is marked by a division of labor for care work. Thus, we examined whether masculinity inferences more strongly varied by social class and whether femininity inferences more strongly varied by gender categories. In Study 1, a total 427 undergraduates provided open-ended descriptions of social class and gender groups. In Study 2, a total 758 undergraduates rated the same groups on preselected trait measures. In Study 3, a total 83 adult participants considered a vignette that manipulated a target's structural resources and gender. Across datasets, variation in social class primarily influenced inferences about masculinity while variation in gender primarily influenced inferences about femininity.
本研究采用社会结构视角来分析交叉社会阶层和性别刻板印象的内容。我们调查了阶层和性别类别的结构定位如何不同地促进男性气质和女性气质的推断。组织阶层和性别的社会结构有所不同：阶层以获取资源为特征，而性别以照料工作的劳动分工为特征。因此，我们研究了男性气质推断是否因社会阶层而有更强烈的变化，以及女性气质推断是否因性别类别而有更强烈的变化。在研究1中，共有427名本科生提供了关于社会阶层和性别群体的开放式描述。在研究2中，共有758名本科生根据预先选定的特质指标对相同群体进行评分。在研究3中，共有83名成年参与者考虑了一个操纵目标结构资源和性别的 vignette。在各个数据集中，社会阶层的变化主要影响对男性气质的推断，而性别的变化主要影响对女性气质的推断。
