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Forests, trees, and streams: Why an integration of discursive psychological frameworks and gender role strain paradigms is needed.

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: The current article provides commentary on Wetherell and Edley's (2014) article, "A Discursive Psychological Framework for Analyzing Men and Masculinities." Using examples from their published research, the authors present and challenge methodologies stemming from the gender role strain paradigm (GRSP). The core argument presented in their article is that discursive psychological approach (DP) provides a better framework for capturing situational masculinities. In this commentary, I argue for less methodological essentialism in the psychology of men and masculinities. DP has great utility for examining the ways men talk about situational enactment of masculinities. However, they do not resolve all of our methodological dilemmas. Chiefly, I suggest that we have more to gain from integrating DP frameworks and GRSP than from using either of these methods alone.

Source: Psychology of Men & Masculinity

DOI: 10.1037/a0037498

Author: Wizdom Powell Hammond

Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language: English

Topic: Gender Roles and Identity Studies

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Gender equality

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities