1992/09/01 by ANDREA G. HUNTER, Andrea G. Hunter, JAMES EARL DAVIS +1 · 3 citations
Social Sciences · #Gender Diversity and Inequality #Gender Roles and Identity Studies #Media, Gender, and Advertising
paper · doi:10.1177/089124392006003007
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This article explores the meanings of manhood as articulated by Afro-American men (N = 32). Conceptualization and Q-sort methods are used to examine (1) men's construction of manhood and (2) men's ratings of the importance of selected attributes to being a man. Manhood emerged as a multidimensional construct with four major domains (self-determinism and accountability, family, pride, and spirituality and humanism) and 15 distinct clusters of ideas. The cluster of attributes rated as most important to being a man paralleled the conceptualization of manhood derived from the open-ended interviews for both professional and nonprofessional men. Men's ratings of attributes in the areas of ownership, manliness, spiritual and religious, and power varied by occupational status.