APA 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Marvin Hart, Inferiority Complex, Hegemonic Masculinity
4 Apr 2016
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Gender roles include a number of normaive expectaions about how one should behave as male or female. Masculinity and femininity are socially constructed categories that elaborate upon. Gender is not ixed in nature, so people oten use sports to maintain dominant deiniions. Sports oten are sites for celebraing tradiional ideas about masculinity. Historically, when sports celebrate masculinity, female athletes oten were deined as invaders. Dominant deiniions of masculinity are embedded in social insituions such as the state, educaion, and the family. Male power is not simply held by individual men but is insituionalised in social structures and ideologies that support the gender order in favour of men. Men are not only organised hierarchically in relaion to women, but also to each other in relaions of marginalisaion and subordinaion. Allows for resistance on the part of men who are subordinated or marginalised by the hegemonic form (naives, lower-class, homosexuals)
