Male and female participants (N = 274) made judgments about the social concepts of feminist, man, and woman on 63 semantic differential items. Factor analysis identified three basic dimensions termed evaluative, potency, and activity as well as two secondary factors called expressiveness and sexuality. Results for the evaluative dimension showed that the concept feminist was rated negatively with male participants rating feminist more negatively than female participants. In terms of potency, feminist was judged higher than man whereas the concept woman was rated low on this dimension. Participants also judged the concept feminist as low in expressiveness and rated woman as the most expressive. Feminist received low ratings on the erotic-sexual dimension (sexuality) by female participants and negative sexuality ratings by men. These results are discussed in terms of social role theory, gender stereotypes, and the changes in women's roles and behavior.

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Les écrits classiques du 19e siècle privilégiaient le masculin. Que leurs auteurs tenaient le masculin pour sujet idéal est évident dans leur traitement de certains thèmes fondamentaux tels que la citoyenneté, la famille et le désir et les pratiques hétérosexuelles, qu'ils abordaient du point de vue du sujet masculin. Cette communication est consacrée aux expressions de ce phénomène dans les écrits de trois sociologues classiques ‐ Comte, Durkheim et Weber. The classical 19th century accounts privileged the masculine as the exemplary subject. This is apparent in the treatment of key themes of citizenship, family, heterosexual desire and practice, which are discussed from the perspective of the masculine subject. The article examines the treatment of these themes in the work of three classical sociologists, Comte, Durkheim and Weber.

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