CRM 601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Racialization, Hypermasculinity, Antonio Gramsci
22 Feb 2017
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Social learning theory: violence is learned through friends, community, family and the media. Behavior is repeated, adapted, internalized and re-enacted. Men are not naturally born more violent than women. Males hold primary power positions in public and private domains. Evokes ideologies that men are superior over women based on biology. Patriarchy: male domination over women is socially constructed, culturally depended on and historically and geopolitically defined. An organizational principle of societies as a whole that is institutionalized and ingrained daily. A structure of oppression; produces inequality and exploitation, social relations of domination and subordination. Differences between men and women are socially constructed. Gender is socially constructed based on dominant ideas of how women and men should behave. Violence is not rooted in male biology but how white male power and moralities define gender roles. Hegemonic masculinity: men are socialized to behave according to dominant masculinity.
