Content analysis of 52 nationally syndicated Sunday comic strips finds over twice as many male as female characters¶
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q2 i? In the analyzed three-week sample of Sunday comic strips, male characters outnumber female characters by more than two to one. → Audio-Visual Communication Review 1953
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Audio-Visual Communication Review 1953¶
Audio-Visual Communication Review. (1953). Audio-Visual Communication Review, p. 316 (digest of Spiegelman, Terwilliger & Fearing, The Journal of Social Psychology, 37:189-203, May 1953; and Wolf & Fiske, The Children Talk about Comics, in Communications Research 1948-1949, Harper and Brothers, 1948). https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02713301
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Content-analysis study of a three-week sampling of 52 nationally syndicated Sunday comic strips, using developed category-sets and judge ratings; the digest reports the sex-composition result without an effect size statistic.
"Over twice as many male as female characters are found in the comic strips analyzed."
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Related Claims¶
- Comic strip characters of both sexes highly prize altruistic group-oriented goals while self-oriented goals are frequent though disapproved — related
- Female comic characters skew toward upper socio-economic classes while males skew toward lower classes — related
- Female comic characters' goals and means vary by class: upper class being loved and lovable, middle class career recognition by hard work, lower class serving others and accepting fate — related
- Male comic characters' goals and means differ by socio-economic class: upper class humanitarian, middle class self- and power-goals with aggressive means, lower class fate and charm — related
- Comic strips reflect ambiguous attitudes toward the status of women — related
- Children need different kinds of comics at different developmental stages, from animal comics for early projective needs to invincible heroes for ego-inflation
- The study sample was predominantly male and drawn mostly from public special education institutes in Islamabad — related
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