Abstract

SEIDMANN, Susana et al. The Persistence Of Gender Stereotypes In The Social Representation Of Crisis In Young Argentinian People In Ages Between 20 And 30 Years Old. Anu. investig. [online]. 2008, vol.15. ISSN 1851-1686.

An exploratory research was performed with the aim of characterizing differences in the social representation of crisis according to gender. Standardized and ad hoc instruments were utilized in an intentional sample by quota of gender and educational level of 203 young people, ages between 20 and 30 years old. For the actual paper we analyzed two questions of a questionnaire referring to what a crisis is for the interviewed people and which had been the crisis or the most important change in his or her life. Data yielded from the free association technique with the stimulus word "crisis" were analyzed. The data were studied qualitatively with the use of the software Atlas.ti through the codifying of the material and the description of the themes or emergent categories. The results show that men relate crisis to social and /or economic difficulties and women refer to personal and/ or family issues. That is to say that it is possible to identify a public and a private dimension related to the concept of crisis which reproduces the separation between work and family. The results show the successful socialization in the gender premises established in the process of symbolic elaboration of the crisis with the persistence of cultural meanings which are related to the gender stereotypes.

Keywords : Social representations; Crisis; Gender; Stereotypes.

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