Richard Majors

As classrooms across the globe become increasingly more diverse, it is imperative that educators understand how to meet the needs of students with varying demographic backgrounds. Emerging Issues and Trends in Education presents case studies from academics who have all at one point been teachers in K-12 classrooms, addressing topics such as STEM as...

Closing the Education Achievement Gaps for African American Males is a research-based tool to improve the schooling experience of African American males. Editors Theodore S. Ransaw and Richard Majors draw together a collection of writings that provide much-needed engagement with issues of gender and identity for black males, as well as those of cul...

The aims of this study were to investigate the social constructionist proposition that masculinity varies according to social context and the relationship, in men, between masculinity ideology and alexithymia. Women tended to endorse a less traditional view of masculinity than did men, and European Americans tended to endorse a less traditional vie...

This is a report of 2 studies. Study 1, a replication of R.F. Levant and R.G. Majors (1997), examined variations in the endorsement of traditional and nontraditional masculinity ideology, by gender and race, among 270 African American and 226 European American young men and women using the Male Role Norms Inventory (MRNI; Levant & Fischer, in press...

The ability to examine and understand group world views or cultural values can be used to alter significantly the interpersonal and social relations that exist within the structures of American institutions. An understanding of cultural values or world views can assist with cross-cultural relations and the development and delivery of services that...