Gwendolyn Gerber

Women and Men Police Officers

Status, Gender, and Personality

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Produktbeschreibung

Challenging traditional beliefs about gender, Gerber develops a new model for understanding gender--the status model of gender stereotyping. She examines how expectations about status and gender impact police offers who work together as partners. Her study includes same-sex police partnerships as well as partnerships in which a woman works with a man. Interviews with police officers highlight the findings from Gerber's large-scale study of police partnerships. She explores what underlies gender stereotyping--why men appear to have more assertive or instrumental personality traits and women appear to have more accommodating or expressive traits. According to Gerber's status model, instrumental traits are associated with high status, and expressive traits are associated with low status; therefore, men and women only appear to have different personality traits because men have higher status than women. The book provides a provocative analysis for scholars and researchers in gender studies, criminal justice, psychology, and sociology, as well as for those involved in the supervision and training of police.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780275967499
• ISBN-10: 0275967492
• Artikelnr.: 21950916

Autorenporträt

Gwendolyn L. Gerber

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Women and Men in Policing The Status Model of Gender
Stereotyping Status Characteristics Theory and the Gender-Stereotyped
Personality Traits Description of the Study: The Sample of Police Partners
and Measures Status and Personality: The Dominating, Instrumental, and
Expressive Traits Coping with Low Status: The Verbal-Aggressive and
Submissive Traits Police Officers Who Violate Gender Norms: The Bipolar
Traits Self-Esteem: The Impact of Status and Personality Traits The
Patterning of Traits within Individual Personality Status, Gender, and
Personality: Towards an Integrated Theory Implications for Policing
Appendix Notes References Index