SOC 502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Power Control, Upper Middle Class, Dysfunctional Family
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They look at the individual and think something is wrong with the certain person. You come from a family that you experienced violence or you witnessed violence so you become a abuser. Blames your family, you come from a dysfunctional family so you are too. Traditional patriarchy; men is the head of the household and everybody obeys his rules. All boys club; all do something that is all male environment. Absence of pentene; no one stopped you or said not a good idea they wouldn"t beat their wife"s. It"s only a subculture of men who abuse. Young men between the ages of 18-24, low education level, low socioeconomic status, unemployed. Upper middle class men do not abuse its only this specific group of men who abuse. Social construction of masculinity reinforces that men are expected aggression, dominant, competition, toughness, and unemotional behaviour. Men are allowed to be angry; women are not allowed to be angry.
