SOCI 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hegemonic Masculinity, Biomedicine, Masculinity

• School: McGill University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 225
• Professor: James Falconer

Document Summary

Hegemonic: white, middle-upper class heterosexual male who has achieved it from high income, and high prestige: the reference point for masculinity, 2. Complicit masculinity: large group of (cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:894)largest(cid:895) does(cid:374)(cid:859)t fit i(cid:374)to hegemonic masculinity. Accepts or promotes the benefits of this ideal (patriarchy dividence: 3. Subordinate masculinity: de-valued category: occupied by a feminine gay man, not traditionally or conventionally masculine, may or may not be white, opposition of hegemonic, 4. Stalled revolution (shelton, 1990: 132: bird & rieker (1999, biological- how biological factors can affect social factors, social experiences, ex. at infancy, baby girls are treated differently from baby boys, when being handled. Girls tend to be handled more delicately: social-can affect your biological functioning, biological & social (interaction)=biosocial. Amplification- biological and sociological factors work in the same directions. 5: rise of homosexual subcultures & challenges to discourses of homosexuality. Maybe that there is a gay gene, or that homosexuals are born that way.