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Klimatförändringar och manliga attityder, en internetstudie : climate change and male identity, an online study

Andersson, Erik LU (2020) HEKK03 20192
Human Ecology
Abstract
Humanity is currently facing enormous challenges regarding how to halt the worst scenarios of climate change, before it escalates out of control. Research has shown that men tend to hold more doubt about the reality, or size of the problem, compared to women. These attitudes seem to go together with other attitudes among mainly conservative groups of men, one of these attitudes being antifeminism. This paper studies male attitudes expressed in comments online, where people tend to be more outspoken. The study confirms connections between attitudes regarding climate change and antifeminism, and suggests these may be due to old ideas of male dominance still playing a part, while changes in society cause a sense of disempowerment in some... (More)
Humanity is currently facing enormous challenges regarding how to halt the worst scenarios of climate change, before it escalates out of control. Research has shown that men tend to hold more doubt about the reality, or size of the problem, compared to women. These attitudes seem to go together with other attitudes among mainly conservative groups of men, one of these attitudes being antifeminism. This paper studies male attitudes expressed in comments online, where people tend to be more outspoken. The study confirms connections between attitudes regarding climate change and antifeminism, and suggests these may be due to old ideas of male dominance still playing a part, while changes in society cause a sense of disempowerment in some groups of men. Deeper understanding of these attitudes could help in addressing with how to get everyone engaged in the struggle to halt climate change. (Less)
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author
Andersson, Erik LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
Climate change and male identity, an online study : threatened male identity as a stopping block in halting climate change?
course
HEKK03 20192
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Climate change, climate denial, male identity, antifeminism, social-media, internet studies
language
Swedish
id
9000528
date added to LUP
2020-06-24 13:00:55
date last changed
2020-10-26 16:01:18
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  abstract     = {{Humanity is currently facing enormous challenges regarding how to halt the worst scenarios of climate change, before it escalates out of control. Research has shown that men tend to hold more doubt about the reality, or size of the problem, compared to women. These attitudes seem to go together with other attitudes among mainly conservative groups of men, one of these attitudes being antifeminism. This paper studies male attitudes expressed in comments online, where people tend to be more outspoken. The study confirms connections between attitudes regarding climate change and antifeminism, and suggests these may be due to old ideas of male dominance still playing a part, while changes in society cause a sense of disempowerment in some groups of men. Deeper understanding of these attitudes could help in addressing with how to get everyone engaged in the struggle to halt climate change.}},
  author       = {{Andersson, Erik}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Klimatförändringar och manliga attityder, en internetstudie : climate change and male identity, an online study}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}