SOC 700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hegemonic Masculinity, Michelle Obama, Prison Notebooks

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 700
• Professor: Graeme Metcalf

Document Summary

Organized gender practice which embodies makers of gender and patriarchy and resulting in the maintained and dominant position of heterosexual men and a subordinate of others to them. This concept is used to examine changing and pliable power structures and relations between different groups of men and women at the in-group and out-group level. Constructed in relation to male/female stratification but also in relation to subordinate and marginalized masculinities. Stratification plays out in the workplace and all of hollywood and the music and hospitality industries (restaurant, bar, chef) and politics are currently amidst this negotiation. How the behaviour is constituted socially - thinking of stereotypes. Although seems powerful, comes w price of family life. Authoritative figures are constituted in a masculine way. Hegemonic masculinity emerged as a theoretical concept out of antonio gramsei"s work on cultural hegemony. In particular, his solutions from the prison notebooks (1925-35)