Exploring the Perceptions of Women Administrators about False Consciousness in a Selected University in the Southwestern United States

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Abstract

For years women have lived in subordination and have accepted the many ways in which social structures and institutions have operated contrary to their social interests (Geek Feminism, 2019). False consciousness argues about how the subordinate class seemed to accept or consent to a system that was manifestly against its social interests when there was no direct coercion to oblige (Geek Feminism, 2019; Jost, 1995; Scott, 1990). The theory of false consciousness is appropriate for exploring the perceptions of women administrators in a selected university in the southwestern United States. False consciousness operates with a dominant ideology which although does not exclude the social interests of the subordinate group, still operates to misrepresent social relations that could damage the interests of the ruling dominant class (Rosenberg, 1953; Scott, 1990).

Author

• Joan Nkansaa Nkansah, University of West Florida