پسرهاي جوان و ارزش هاي مردانگي (پژوهشي در بين دانش آموزان متوسطه شهر تهران )

Young Boys and Masculine Values (A Research on High School Students in Tehran)

From the viewpoint of the constructionists, masculinity is a socio-cultural construction, which is acquired actively through socialization process. Therefore, masculinity goes beyond biological, physiological, or psychological characteristics. This article examines boysʹ (young menʹs) responses to "masculine" values. In so doing, it studies young boysʹ conceptions as to masculinity values. Adopting a constructionist approach, a representative sample of high school boy students of Tehran, was used to study boysʹ tendencies to masculine values and to the gender stereotypes, and also to interrogate the relationship between socio-economic status and boysʹ gender identity, as such a relationship may reflect the masculine values. Acknowledging the presence of a variation of "men" among high school student boys of Tehran, this research ventures to demonstrate some differences in tendency toward stereotypic gender values among them. The findings show that boys, who scored high on the masculinity scale, also exhibited stronger tendency toward masculine values and gender stereotypes, as compared to others.