Conceptualizing and Assessing Heterosexism in High Schools: A Setting-Level Approach

摘要: Heterosexism is defined as a setting-level process that systematically privileges heterosexuality relative to homosexuality, based on the assumption heterosexuality, well heterosexual power and privilege are norm ideal. The many ways heterosexism manifest in physical-architectural, program-policy, suprapersonal, social features of high schools described followed by proposal for comprehensive assessment strategy. Strategies used previous research reviewed terms what assessed, how it analyzed. author advocates more assessments school-level analyses enable comparisons between schools, facilitate effects heterosexism, provide basis evaluating interventions. Additional issues include reliability validity, links other forms oppression, contexts or at levels, implications theory practice community psychology.