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Cognitive Mapping: Gender Differences in the Perception of Community
Author(s) -
STONEALL Linda
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1981.tb01035.x
Subject(s) - viewpoints , perception , cognitive map , cognition , sociology , phenomenology (philosophy) , rural community , psychology , social psychology , epistemology , socioeconomics , art , philosophy , neuroscience , visual arts
The concept of cognitive mapping as drawn from sociological phenomenology is used to clarify the complexity of the concept of community. Fifty residents of a Midwestern rural area were asked to drawn maps of their community. The maps reveal individual differences in the perception of a community and a tendency for the perception of community to vary by gender. Where the activities within a community tend to be segregated, there will also tend to be different viewpoints or cognitive maps of the community.