A verdade nua e crua: uma análise das contingências de reforçamento para a emissão de regras sexistas acerca das relações românticas

Abstract

Romantic relationships are a theme very common in daily routine, since the behavior of relating and falling in love with another person tends to be something remarkable in many people’s lives. However, despite new ideological and conceptual changes about love relationships, the macho, patriarchal and sexist culture/society becomes variable, which corroborates with practices and discourses for different behaviors aimed at men and women in a relationship, in addition to the possibility of establish a probable passivity behavior of women in love relationships. In view of this, the research seeks to identify contingencies of reinforcement that explain the maintenance of sexist rules in the love relationships of the protagonist of the film “A Verdade Nua e Crua”. To this, aimed, primordially, functionally analyze the contingencies that justify the high frequency of sexist rules by the protagonist in romantic relationships to then describe, from the selection-by-consequences model, the influence of cultural variables in maintaining sexist patterns in romantic relationships; discuss the role of control by rules in maintaining sexist behavior; to describe the contingencies that maintain the sexist behavior of the protagonist of the film “A Verdade Nua e Crua” in his love relationships. This research is a documentary study, of a basic nature, with an exploratory-descriptive objective and a qualitative approach. As a result and discussion of the entire work, it was observed that every time Mike issued sexist rules, his behavior was reinforced by the environment through the greater audience in the program, praise from the boss, the laughter of the audience, women giving in to his argument, etc and when other people, mainly the protagonist, tried to argue, they were punished. Through this research, the existence of inequality in the release of reinforcement between genders was observed, with men being more privileged by social reinforcements than women within love relationships, in addition to the appreciation of the stereotypes of what is expected for men and women to assume within relations, which ended up showing a behavioral deficit, without summing up the women, of coping/positioning in the face of the demands for the female gender in relationships.