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Measuring Masculinities, Anti-Gender Attitudes, and Political Masculinities: Methodological Challenges and Innovations in Survey Research |
| Coordinator 1 | Professor Vera Lomazzi (University of Bergamo) |
| Coordinator 2 | Dr Mariia Tepliakova (University of Amsterdam) |
| Coordinator 3 | Professor Alexia Katsanidou (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) |
| Coordinator 4 | Dr Giorgio Dolci (University of Bergamo) |
Session Details
Questions related to masculinities, anti-gender attitudes, antifeminism, and political masculinity have become increasingly prominent in contemporary social and political research. Operationalising and measuring these issues is crucial in advancing knowledge on these topics, yet it does not come without substantial methodological challenges. Many of the underlying concepts are multidimensional, politically contested, and rapidly evolving, raising important questions about conceptualization, operationalization, measurement quality, and construct validity.
This session invites contributions addressing methodological developments and applications in operationalisation and measurement on masculinities and related phenomena. We welcome papers discussing the development and validation of survey instruments measuring masculinity norms, masculine identities, antifeminism, anti-gender attitudes, political masculinity, and related constructs. We also invite papers that measure these concepts using different data types (eg. text-as-data) that can be linked to surveys.
Contributions focusing on questionnaire design, vignettes, response processes, cross-cultural translation and adaptation, scale development, psychometric evaluation, measurement invariance, survey experiments, data-linkage, web-tracking and other innovations in survey methodology are particularly encouraged.
The session also welcomes substantive contributions based on survey research or other quantitative methods that advance the understanding of masculinities, gender-related political attitudes, and their social and political consequences. Papers may draw on a variety of designs and analytical approaches, provided they engage with issues relevant to survey research, measurement, or data quality.
The session aims to foster dialogue between survey methodologists, computational scientists, and substantive researchers working at the intersection of gender, politics, and survey research. While inspired by recent advances emerging from international projects such as MEN4DEM and Political Masculinities in Europe, the session is open to contributions from all disciplines employing survey-based approaches. By bringing together researchers developing new measurement tools alongside those applying innovative survey methods to substantive questions, the session seeks to advance both methodological and empirical research
