Viktor Gecas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3682228 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Viktor Gecas |
| NOMBRES | Viktor |
| APELLIDO | Gecas |
| FIRMA | GECAS V |
| AFILIACIONES | Washington State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 638 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
The Ebb and Flow of Sociological Interest in Values
Contemporary sociology and social psychology have largely ignored the study of values. In this essay, I explore the reasons for that condition, the exceptions to the rule, and the areas that would most benefit from the consideration of values
Symbolic Interactionist Reflections on Erikson, Identity, and Postmodernism
Erikson theorized about identities as both typified epigenetic outcomes and adaptations to cultural-historical circumstances. Neo-Eriksonians have emphasized the former, with a more narrow focus on the identity struggles of adolescents. Postmodern theorists have strongly emphasized the latter. Reflecting a postmodern perspective, Rattansi and Phoenix (1997) emphasized the ephemeral and manipulated aspects of contemporary identity dynamics that di…
My Biographical Self
Key Words: Autobiographychildhoodcareeridentityfaculty
Role Taking and Socialization in Single-Parent Families
This article examines the conditions and consequences of role taking in single-parent families. First, the authors discuss the theoretical relevance of role taking for parent-child interaction. Second, they suggest some conditions for parental role taking. Third, the authors consider how social class and family structure affect role taking in single-parent families. They propose that in addition to role taking in the dyadic parent-child relations…
The Conceptual Self in Context
List of contributions Part I. The Self in Culture: 1. Concepts and self-concepts Ulric Neisser 2. Selfways: diversity in modes of cultural participation Hazel Rose Markus, Patricia R. Mullally, and Shinobu Kitayama 3. Depression and the cultural context of the self-serving bias Linda J. Koenig 4. How is the self conceptualized? Variations among cultures Fredrik Barth 5. The internal structure of the self George Lakoff 6. Why Lakoff needs psychoan…
Guilt, Shame, and Family Socialization
In this study, we argue for the importance of guilt and shame for the process of socialization via the role of these reflexive emotions in individuals' conformity to moral and social norms. Working from the assumption that the self-concept is the basis for feelings of guilt and shame, we test a number of hypotheses connecting the experience of these emotions to 3 styles of parental control (inductive, affective, and coercive). Undergraduate stude…
Multiplicity and Dialogue in Social Psychology
Mixed Emotions
Injury and Depression
This study further specifies the relationship between injury, self-conceptions, and depression. With the use of path analysis, we look at the direct and indirect effects of pain and work limitation associated with a job-related injury on self-efficacy, self-esteem and depression for a sample of injured workers (N = 1,037). As expected, we found that self-efficacy and self-esteem are negatively associated with depression, while work limitation and…
Autonomy and Conformity in Cooley's Self-Theory
The totality of Cooley's contribution to self-theory, as reported in most sociology texts and much of the contemporary self literature, is erroneously equated with his concept of the 'looking-glass self', in its passive, dependent, and chameleon form. In this paper, we highlight Cooley's own qualifications to the looking-glass self, which properly place this popular concept in the context of Cooley's broader and more assertive view of self-concep…
Families and Adolescents
Viktor Gecas, Monica A. Seff, Families and Adolescents: A Review of the 1980s, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 52, No. 4, Family Research in the 1980s: The Decade in Review (Nov., 1990), pp. 941-958
Social Class and Self-Esteem
Viktor Gecas, Monica A. Seff, Social Class and Self-Esteem: Psychological Centrality, Compensation, and the Relative Effects of Work and Home, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 2, Special Issue: Social Structure and the Individual (Jun., 1990), pp. 165-173
The Social Psychology of Self-Efficacy
The topic of self-efficacy is part of a broad literature which has developed around the issues of human agency, mastery, and control. Its more delimited focus is on perceptions and assessments of self with regard to competence, effectiveness, and causal agency. Self-efficacy has become an important variable within social psychological research because of its association with various favorable consequences, especially in the areas of physical and …
Rekindling the Sociological Imagination In Social Psychology
Social Class, Occupational Conditions, and Self-Esteem
This study is an attempt at further specification of the relationship between social class and self-esteem. We argue that the effects of social class on self-esteem are largely experienced through occupational conditions which affect the self-evaluation dimensions of self-efficacy and self-worth. We examine these relationships, with the use of path analysis, for a sample of working men. The path model considers the direct and indirect effects of …
Social Psychology of Self-Referent Behavior
1 Introduction.- 2 Social Antecedents and Consequences of Self-Referent Cognition.- 3 Social Antecedents and Consequences of Self-Evaluation.- 4 Social Antecedents and Consequences of Self-Feelings.- 5 Nature and Antecedents of Self-Protective-Self-Enhancing Responses.- 6 Toward A General Theory of Self-Referent Behavior.- References.- Author Index
Value Attributions and Value Transmission between Parents and Children
Born in the USA in the 1980s
Self, Situations, and Social Behavior
Parental Behavior and Adolescent Self-Esteem
In this study we examine the relationship between parental behavior as reported by parents, children's perceptions of parental behavior, and the effects of each on various aspects of children's self-evaluations-specifically, self-worth, self-efficacy, and general self-esteem. The study is based on a sample of 128families, each consisting of a mother, afather, and a child in late adolescence (17 to 19 years of age). We found little correspondence …
Self and Identity Beyond Mainstream Social Psychology
Social Class, Occupational Conditions, and Efficacy-Based Self-Esteem
This study examines the relationship between social stratification and self-esteem by focusing on aspects of stratification and self-esteem formation processes ignored in previous research. An analysis of theoretical developments and empirical research reveals that the exclusive focus on occupational status and self-esteem derived from interpersonal comparison processes ignores an entire dimension of the relationship between social stratification…
Beyond the Looking-Glass Self
The looking-glass has been the dominant metaphor within sociology for the development of self-conception and has contributed to an overly passive and oversocialized view of human beings. The major theme in this paper is that our self-conceptions are also based upon our actions in the world, especially efficacious actions. The notions of human agency and self-creativity, which have been a hallmark of the symbolic interactionist tradition at the ph…
Social Psychology of the Self-Concept
Contents of this title include: Constituents of the Self-Concept; Principles of Self-Concept Formation; Social Identity & Social Context; Social Institutions; Deviance; and, Defense Mechanisms
Birth order and self-concept in adolescence
The Self-Concept
The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the literature on platform work and the underlying metaphors associated with each. ...Read More
Beyond the Looking-Glass Self
The looking-glass has been the dominant metaphor within sociology for the development of self-conception and has contributed to an overly passive and oversocialized view of human beings. The major theme in this paper is that our self-conceptions are also based upon our actions in the world, especially efficacious actions. The notions of human agency and self-creativity, which have been a hallmark of the symbolic interactionist tradition at the ph…
Parental Behavior and Adolescent Self-Esteem
In this study we examine the relationship between parental behavior as reported by parents, children's perceptions of parental behavior, and the effects of each on various aspects of children's self-evaluations-specifically, self-worth, self-efficacy, and general self-esteem. The study is based on a sample of 128families, each consisting of a mother, afather, and a child in late adolescence (17 to 19 years of age). We found little correspondence …
Value Attributions and Value Transmission between Parents and Children
Social Class and Self-Esteem
Viktor Gecas, Monica A. Seff, Social Class and Self-Esteem: Psychological Centrality, Compensation, and the Relative Effects of Work and Home, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 2, Special Issue: Social Structure and the Individual (Jun., 1990), pp. 165-173
Social Class, Occupational Conditions, and Self-Esteem
This study is an attempt at further specification of the relationship between social class and self-esteem. We argue that the effects of social class on self-esteem are largely experienced through occupational conditions which affect the self-evaluation dimensions of self-efficacy and self-worth. We examine these relationships, with the use of path analysis, for a sample of working men. The path model considers the direct and indirect effects of …
Parental Behavior and Dimensions of Adolescent Self-Evaluation
The focus of the study is on the relationship between two dimensions of parental behavior: support and control, and the adolescent's self-evaluation. Drawing on sociological theory which stresses the importance of the evaluative behavior of significant others in the development of the individual's selfevaluation, it was hypothesized that both parental support and parental control would be positively related to adolescent self-evaluation. The find…
Sexual behavior as symbolic interaction
The aim of this paper is to systematically apply a sociological perspective, specifically that orientation known as symbolic interactionism, to the area of human sexuality. Our task is both conceptual and empirical. At the conceptual level, we have attempted to interpret and view sexual behavior through the concepts and assumptions provided by the symbolic interaction perspective. At the empirical level we have tried to organize research findings…
Autonomy and Conformity in Cooley's Self-Theory
The totality of Cooley's contribution to self-theory, as reported in most sociology texts and much of the contemporary self literature, is erroneously equated with his concept of the 'looking-glass self', in its passive, dependent, and chameleon form. In this paper, we highlight Cooley's own qualifications to the looking-glass self, which properly place this popular concept in the context of Cooley's broader and more assertive view of self-concep…
Husbands' Work Involvement and Marital Role Performance
Social Class, Occupational Conditions, and Efficacy-Based Self-Esteem
This study examines the relationship between social stratification and self-esteem by focusing on aspects of stratification and self-esteem formation processes ignored in previous research. An analysis of theoretical developments and empirical research reveals that the exclusive focus on occupational status and self-esteem derived from interpersonal comparison processes ignores an entire dimension of the relationship between social stratification…
Parental Behavior and Contextual Variations in Adolescent Self-Esteem
The present study examines affect of contextual frames of reference on level of self-esteem expressed by adolescents and on relationship between certain parental behaviors and adolescent self-esteem. Five contexts were considered as frames of reference: classroom, family, friends, in heterosexual relations, and with adults. It was found that adolescents' self-esteem was highest in friends context and lowest in classroom. This variation was especi…
Guilt, Shame, and Family Socialization
In this study, we argue for the importance of guilt and shame for the process of socialization via the role of these reflexive emotions in individuals' conformity to moral and social norms. Working from the assumption that the self-concept is the basis for feelings of guilt and shame, we test a number of hypotheses connecting the experience of these emotions to 3 styles of parental control (inductive, affective, and coercive). Undergraduate stude…
Role Taking and Socialization in Single-Parent Families
This article examines the conditions and consequences of role taking in single-parent families. First, the authors discuss the theoretical relevance of role taking for parent-child interaction. Second, they suggest some conditions for parental role taking. Third, the authors consider how social class and family structure affect role taking in single-parent families. They propose that in addition to role taking in the dyadic parent-child relations…
Rekindling the Sociological Imagination In Social Psychology
The Ebb and Flow of Sociological Interest in Values
Contemporary sociology and social psychology have largely ignored the study of values. In this essay, I explore the reasons for that condition, the exceptions to the rule, and the areas that would most benefit from the consideration of values
Sex and Class Differences in Parent-Child Interaction
This paper examines sex and class differences in the style and circumstances of parental discipline of the child. Specifically, we have focused on Melvin Kohn's suggestive hypothesis that white-collar parents stress the development of internal standards qf conduct in their children and thus are more likely to discipline the child on the basis qf their interpretation of the child's motives for a particular act; while bluecollar parents are more li…
Adolescent Perceptions of Conjugal Power
This study examines the accuracy of adolescent perceptions of conjugal power and the association of occupation, education, and female employment with these perceptions using data from two existing surveys. The parent with whom the adolescent identified most closely was perceived as relatively more powerful. Although perception of conjugal power varied somewhat by age and sex of adolescent, the data suggest that conjugal power may also vary by cer…
Multiplicity and Dialogue in Social Psychology
Social Identities in Anglo and Latin Adolescents
Social identities, conceptualized as self-designations and measured by the TST, were examined for samples of high school adolescents in three societies: the United States, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. Four identities were explored in terms of salience, frequency, and valence: gender, religion, family, and peer. For both males and females in Latin and Anglo cultures gender emerged as the most prominent identity. Religious IDs were more frequent for Ca…
Motives and Aggressive Acts in Popular Fiction
The present study examines the depictions of aggressive acts and their motives for different social classes and sexes as these groups have been portrayed in popular magazine fiction. A random selection of short stories in Argosy, Esquire, True Confessions, and McCall's, for the time period 1925-65, was content analyzed for descriptions of aggressive behavior and the characters associated with it. Women were found to be more frequently portrayed a…
Self and Identity Beyond Mainstream Social Psychology
Social Psychology of the Self-Concept
Contents of this title include: Constituents of the Self-Concept; Principles of Self-Concept Formation; Social Identity & Social Context; Social Institutions; Deviance; and, Defense Mechanisms
Birth order and self-concept in adolescence
Class and Conformity
Perceived Parent-Child Interaction and Boys' Self-Esteem in Two Cultural Contexts
Parental Behavior and Dimensions of Adolescent Self-Evaluation
The focus of the study is on the relationship between two dimensions of parental behavior: support and control, and the adolescent's self-evaluation. Drawing on sociological theory which stresses the importance of the evaluative behavior of significant others in the development of the individual's selfevaluation, it was hypothesized that both parental support and parental control would be positively related to adolescent self-evaluation. The find…
Parental Behavior and Contextual Variations in Adolescent Self-Esteem
The present study examines affect of contextual frames of reference on level of self-esteem expressed by adolescents and on relationship between certain parental behaviors and adolescent self-esteem. Five contexts were considered as frames of reference: classroom, family, friends, in heterosexual relations, and with adults. It was found that adolescents' self-esteem was highest in friends context and lowest in classroom. This variation was especi…
Motives and Aggressive Acts in Popular Fiction
The present study examines the depictions of aggressive acts and their motives for different social classes and sexes as these groups have been portrayed in popular magazine fiction. A random selection of short stories in Argosy, Esquire, True Confessions, and McCall's, for the time period 1925-65, was content analyzed for descriptions of aggressive behavior and the characters associated with it. Women were found to be more frequently portrayed a…
Social Identities in Anglo and Latin Adolescents
Social identities, conceptualized as self-designations and measured by the TST, were examined for samples of high school adolescents in three societies: the United States, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. Four identities were explored in terms of salience, frequency, and valence: gender, religion, family, and peer. For both males and females in Latin and Anglo cultures gender emerged as the most prominent identity. Religious IDs were more frequent for Ca…
Sex and Class Differences in Parent-Child Interaction
This paper examines sex and class differences in the style and circumstances of parental discipline of the child. Specifically, we have focused on Melvin Kohn's suggestive hypothesis that white-collar parents stress the development of internal standards qf conduct in their children and thus are more likely to discipline the child on the basis qf their interpretation of the child's motives for a particular act; while bluecollar parents are more li…
Adolescent Perceptions of Conjugal Power
This study examines the accuracy of adolescent perceptions of conjugal power and the association of occupation, education, and female employment with these perceptions using data from two existing surveys. The parent with whom the adolescent identified most closely was perceived as relatively more powerful. Although perception of conjugal power varied somewhat by age and sex of adolescent, the data suggest that conjugal power may also vary by cer…
Motherless Families.Victor George , Paul Wilding
Family Socialization and the Adolescent
Sexual behavior as symbolic interaction
The aim of this paper is to systematically apply a sociological perspective, specifically that orientation known as symbolic interactionism, to the area of human sexuality. Our task is both conceptual and empirical. At the conceptual level, we have attempted to interpret and view sexual behavior through the concepts and assumptions provided by the symbolic interaction perspective. At the empirical level we have tried to organize research findings…
Adolescence in Life Cycle
Husbands' Work Involvement and Marital Role Performance
Class and Conformity
"Comments on Petryszak's "The Biosociology of the Social Self
Symbolic Interactionism
Rethinking Socialization
The Self-Concept
The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the literature on platform work and the underlying metaphors associated with each. ...Read More
Beyond the Looking-Glass Self
The looking-glass has been the dominant metaphor within sociology for the development of self-conception and has contributed to an overly passive and oversocialized view of human beings. The major theme in this paper is that our self-conceptions are also based upon our actions in the world, especially efficacious actions. The notions of human agency and self-creativity, which have been a hallmark of the symbolic interactionist tradition at the ph…
Social Psychology of the Self-Concept
Contents of this title include: Constituents of the Self-Concept; Principles of Self-Concept Formation; Social Identity & Social Context; Social Institutions; Deviance; and, Defense Mechanisms
Birth order and self-concept in adolescence
Social Class, Occupational Conditions, and Efficacy-Based Self-Esteem
This study examines the relationship between social stratification and self-esteem by focusing on aspects of stratification and self-esteem formation processes ignored in previous research. An analysis of theoretical developments and empirical research reveals that the exclusive focus on occupational status and self-esteem derived from interpersonal comparison processes ignores an entire dimension of the relationship between social stratification…
Self and Identity Beyond Mainstream Social Psychology
Self, Situations, and Social Behavior
Parental Behavior and Adolescent Self-Esteem
In this study we examine the relationship between parental behavior as reported by parents, children's perceptions of parental behavior, and the effects of each on various aspects of children's self-evaluations-specifically, self-worth, self-efficacy, and general self-esteem. The study is based on a sample of 128families, each consisting of a mother, afather, and a child in late adolescence (17 to 19 years of age). We found little correspondence …
Born in the USA in the 1980s
Psychology (38 obras) · Social Psychology (32 obras) · Social Psychology (24 obras) · Sociology (23 obras) · Developmental psychology (17 obras) · Cultural Differences and Values (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Self-esteem (8 obras) · Social science (8 obras) · Epistemology (7 obras)