RT Journal Article
T1 Spanish students’ categorical perceptions of feminist movements
A1 Ávila-Muñoz, Antonio Manuel
K1 Feminismo
K1 Percepción social
AB Identifying a society’s perceptions and, by extension, opinions of a certain social move-ment can help to understand to what extent the movement has been successful in effect-ing change. When working to gain such an understanding, a focus on the student popula-tion is essential, as their opinions provide insight into the future conditions of society and,thus, into whether the movement has been successful in effecting lasting social change.The present work focusses on the feminist movements and, in line with the above, analysesthe perceptions held by a sample of 600 Spanish students enrolled in compulsory second-ary, pre-university, and university education. The method employed begins with the use ofassociation tests to extract lexical networks. Then, following a theoretical transformation,the traditional lexical availability index is applied in combination with fuzzy set theory tothe sample of lists obtained so as to map the structure of the collective network, a novelapproach that results in different levels of compatibility. The highest levels of compatibil-ity reveal the prototypical conceptualisation as well as the sample’s shared cognitive per-ception. The results suggest that although the population under study may have absorbedthe feminist movements’ messages of equality and respect, distorted perceptions could stillremain in certain groups analysed. This work therefore recommends that education centresmay wish to consider communicating objective information on the feminist movementsspecifically to women, as this could ultimately lead to all students fully embracing a femi-nist awareness distanced from extreme ideologies
PB Springer
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/31448
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/31448
LA eng
NO Ávila-Muñoz, A.M. Spanish Students’ Categorical Perceptions of Feminist Movements. J Psycholinguist Res 53, 52 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-024-10091-8
NO Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga / CBUA
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
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