Kinesiology 2250A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Femininity, Visible Minority, Masculinity

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2250A/B
• Professor: Michael Heine

Document Summary

Kinesiology 2250a social foundations of sport and physical activity. Unit 5: gender and social constructions of masculinity. Lecture 14: violence in sport october 20, 2017. Case 14: pink enforcer : all interpretive, no measuring device. Signified was the same to both the commentator and ourselves: nothing wrong with them fighting, it has been legitimized in hockey. Implicitly classifies this as out of place in hockey ditto. A normal underlying understanding of the right" kind of hockey masculinity implicit, because we respond to a defective version. Kinesiology 2250a social foundations of sport and physical activity: link to ideology of masculinity, disability is typically seen in a negative way, a deviance from ability. Masculinity, social class, and race: among men from low-income backgrounds violence may be perceived to bring respect, men of visible minority may use violence to exploit white sterotypes. Gansta rap" targeted at white middle-class males: the stereotype of the natural-born black athlete".