Hughes, Linda A.

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ERIC Number: EJ388135

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1988

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"But That's Not Really' Mean": Competing in a Cooperative Mode.

Hughes, Linda A.

Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, v19 n11-12 p669-87 Dec 1988

Examines the importance of goals and style in female competition. Describes an ethnographic study of 27 girls and 12 boys playing a ball game at a Quaker school. Finds that the girls used stereotypically feminine rhetoric to support aggressive competition. (FMW)

Descriptors: Aggression, Children, Childrens Games, Competition, Cooperation, Ethnography, Females, Goal Orientation, Group Activities, Interpersonal Relationship, Interviews, Males, Observation, Sex Differences, Sex Role, Sex Stereotypes, Social Behavior

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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