SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Masculinity, Sensitivity Training, Job Satisfaction

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Training: independent adult training, done in ontario, there for 13 weeks, mixed in with students on campus, mixed training, broad based training, fully integrated approach, students spend 2 years in a university program. Is it too long, is it not long enough: in ontario, we only have 13 weeks. No contact with the outside world when they are becoming cops. Stress: cops are assuming that if they have technical skills than they wont need the social part of policing, program is not going copping strategies to deal with stress, social distancing. Often will engage in drug and alcohol use. Hegemony (gramsic) group: how to get consent from the public from the dominant, by getting consent, it allows the dominant group to remain in power. Masculinity: how should men be, middle class, working class. Status is related to loyalty, fighting, strength and wit: masculinity is everything that is not feminine. Police: police started off with a working class scene of masculinity.