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- Title
Women's Verbal Images and Associations.
- Authors
John-Steiner, Vera; Irvine, Patricia
- Abstract
This article explores the modes of symbolic representation, the culturally-patterned content and styles of responses, and themes in Navajo women's views of themselves by linking the technique of word associations to a parallel method of imagery associations. The most apparent difference between groups in response modes was in the much higher percentage of purely visual responses given by Navajo women. The Navajo images were particularly vivid ones. The visual descriptions were usually of a single integrated scene, often depicting people involved in physical activity. In the analysis of word association responses, over half of them were categorized as synonyms or mentioned setting, so that patterned differences among the groups which were most interesting emerged with relatively lower levels of percentages. The patterns of response between or within groups which seemed to reflect cultural emphasis are addressed. The most interesting pattern emerged in comparing Navajo and Anglo responses in the interpersonal and inner state categories. Of the Navajo women's association to love, 45% mentioned family and friends, belonging thus in the interpersonal category. Two other groups of women gave predominantly inner state or affective responses.
- Subjects
SELF-perception; ASSOCIATION tests; MENTAL imagery; NAVAJO women; SENSORY perception
- Publication
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1978, Vol 1978, Issue 17, p103
- ISSN
0165-2516
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ijsl.1978.17.103