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Sexism in the media relates to concerns about a range of gender inequalities – in content, employment, policy, decision-making, and...

The representation of sexual violence has been subject to critical inquiry in two main ways. One strand of research explores...

Sexualization is a concept used in communication research, primarily by feminist and gender studies researchers, to describe an increasingly close...

Woman as sign is a semiotic construct developed by feminist scholars trying to explain the ways in which women’s status...

Images of women in the media have presented a serious problem and challenge to feminist activists and scholars concerned about...

With the general growth of gender research across multiple disciplines, it is not surprising that issues surrounding women’s language and...

Women’s media genres include women’s magazines and romances in print media, the soap opera on television, and romantic comedy in...

It is widely recognized that cultural norms, values, beliefs, and practices vary among population sub-groups, and influence how members of...

Much has been written in recent years about the issues of disclosing and communicating health information (including genetic information) in...

The transtheoretical model is an integrative model of behavior change, combining key constructs from other theories. The model describes how...

Telecommunications Careers Background The telecommunications industry, which consists of the telephone, computer, and cable TV industries, has its roots in...

Television Careers Background Modern television developed from experiments with electricity and vacuum tubes in the mid-1800s, but it was not...

Textiles Careers Background The word textile originally referred only to fabrics made by weaving yarn on a loom. Today, the...

Theater Careers Background Theatrical performance is among the oldest of human art forms. It probably began with storytelling to recount...

Toys and Games Careers Background Toys and games have been around for centuries. In 1600 BC, children used swings on...

The transportation industry includes air, rail, road, and water travel, and its core business is transporting passengers and moving freight....

Travel and Tourism Careers Background People have always traveled. In ancient times, people moved from area to area to search...

Trucking Careers Background The trucking industry is an integral part of the nation’s economy. Along with ships, airplanes, and railroads,...

Visual Arts Careers Background Black Iris Georgia O’Keefe’s painting Black Iris, Michelangelo’s sculpture David, and Robert Mapplethorpe’s photograph Fish, all...

Waste Management Careers Background Most people rarely give a second thought to garbage. We throw away what we don’t need,...

Coined in 1906 by Russian biologist Eli Metchnikoff, the word gerontology is historically derived from the Greek word geront, meaning...

Gesellschaft, which I will here translate as “society,” is one of the most ambiguous sociological notions. One talks about caste...

The Ghost Dance originated among the Great Basin Paiute as a religious movement arising out of the extreme social, political,...

Gibbons are members of the order Primates, family Hylobatidae, and genus Hylobates. They are most notably known for their unique...

Gigantopithecus is the name given to an extinct ape discovered by G. H. R. von Koenigswald, in 1935. The two...

The Contested Territory of Globalization The term globalization has entered modern parlance with increasing frequency, but in such varied contexts...

Glottochronology is a method that tries to calculate when two languages separated in the past. It is analogous to a...

The founder of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology, British born Max Gluckman completed his PhD at Oxford University in...

The belief in and attempt to manipulate the supernatural is widespread throughout humanity. Although the particular content of any people’s...

The term god is very vague; its common uses include reference to an extremely wide range of sorts of thing,...

Cognitive  task  analysis  (CTA)  refers  to  a  suite  of scientific  methods  designed  to  identify  the  cognitive  skills,  strategies,  and  knowledge ...

In sport psychology, concentration refers to focusing  on  sensory  or  mental  events  coupled  with mental effort. It therefore relates primarily...

Whether  out  of  envy  or  admiration,  people  have long  been  fascinated  by  the  extraordinary  skills of  champion  athletes  such  as ...

Decision  making  (DM)  is  the  cognitive  operation of selecting a response from a range of available  responses  in  circumstances  where ...

In  the  context  of  sport,  developmental  histories provide  information  on  an  athlete’s  career  with respect  to  practice  activities  related  to ...

It  has  been  known  for  a  long  time  that  there  are significant  limitations  in  the  human  capability  to attend to...

Every  biological  system—microbe,  athlete,  or team—can  be  described  formally  in  terms  of  its time  evolution  or  dynamics.  This  becomes  feasible ...

An  especial  skill  is  a  unique  case  where  one  very specific variation of a motor skill exhibits a markedly  superior ...

Expertise  refers  to  the  underlying  qualities  and skills that distinguish highly accomplished people, referred  to  as  experts,  from  lesser  skilled ...

Complex  systems  in  nature  are  defined  as  having many individual components that are free to vary and interact with each...

The study of representations of gender in the media understands gender to be socially constructed – an ongoing process of...

Grassroots media are small-scale, developed by and accessible to members of a local community or group, and conceptualized as a...

Heterosexism “refers to the belief and expectation that everyone is or should be heterosexual” and the term “heteronormativity” equates heterosexual...

Identity politics refers to the struggle for political recognition by marginalized social groups based on particular affiliations of individual identity,...

Latina feminist media studies addresses the intersectional themes of gender, ethnicity, nation, and media in relation to that recently constructed...

The focus of this article is upon representations of masculinity in one medium only, television, while making it evident that...

The feminist pornography debates, known as the “porn wars” or the “sex wars,” began in the US, the UK, and...

Postfeminism is one of the most important and contested terms in the lexicon of western feminist cultural critique. The term...

The ubiquity of sexualized images and narratives across all media forms signals the importance of this topic for research and...

Sex role stereotypes represent women and men in highly generalized, often unrealistic, ways. Such media stereotypes are important because representation...