SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Masculinity, Psych, Hypermasculinity
27 Jan 2018
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Police in society lecture 5: subcultures and the functions of brotherhood. Those who don"t understand police subculture don"t demand respect. Methodological challenges: gaining access, closed institution (restricted access and secrecy) (nienderhoffer 1967; herbert 1997) they are good at keeping people they don"t trust out. Police subcultures: norms/values: observing police norms and values since the 60"s, masculinity, authoritarian, adventure-seeking, cynical/mistrustful, defensive, conservative, etc. (loftus, 2010, debate re: ubiquity of norms and values , key norms and values persist (loftus 2010) Masculinity: masculine traits are valued dominant quality of subculture, emphasis on strength, aggression, fearlessness, independence, etc, we should not be surprised, because subcultures will always have one foot in the dominant subculture, eg. If you are responsible for fighting crime, it"s considered valuable because of the masculinity. However, if you have an office job, you"ll be referred to as a station queen it"s meant to be a dig. Selection methods prioritize values choose young males.
