aurant (same group of dyads and uncoupled individuals), I noticed how polarized men and women are when it comes to ideas of jealousy. Male jealousy is typically seen as being in agreement with culturally sanctioned ideas of masculinity: jealousy as protective; in most situations intervention is not necessary but there is still the idea here of the man asserting his rights when some other man infringes on his territory. This also reinforces the notion that a woman cannot rebuff an unwanted, unthreatening advance, or that perhaps women cannot be trusted to do so. On the other hand, female jealousy is more often construed as hysteria and/or irrationality. The same behavior is viewed in dramatically different ways depending on which gender is doing it. Gender as a social institution insists that it doesn't matter if men and women do the same thing; it will still be perceived as being different.
             Goffman's symbolic interactionist perspective and dramaturgical analysis of social life, as well as his strictly constructionist view, allow an
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