Gender, Humor and Quality of Life in Workplace Sitcoms: A Content Analysis Examining Agency in Post-Recession Situation Comedies

<p>This study used content analysis to analyze gender representations in post-recession workplace sitcoms using a typology developed using Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. 100 episodes of programming were analyzed by five graduate researchers for a total of 2579 cases. Though men dominated the sample, results were dissimilar from previous findings within some of the literature on televised representations of gender. Findings indicated that need type for most commonly expressed needs were split fairly evenly by gender, but that less expressed needs were more polarized with regard to gender representation. Women also met their own needs more than men did, and had others meet their needs more than men, though men more often had their needs met by happenstance.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in Communication (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Year dc:date.available

2014

Author dc:creator

• Bost, Gwendolyn Logan

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Warren, Ron

Contributors dc:contributor

• Walker, Kasey L.
• Schulte, Stephanie R.

• Agency
• Gender
• Humor
• Television
• Mass Communication

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/2223

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uark.edu:etd-3762