SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Hegemonic Masculinity, Hidden Curriculum, Reality Television

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Ideal of masculinity that men are supposed to strive to achieve. Requires men to be successful capable and relatable. Based on women"s compliance with their subordinate to men. Requires women to be supportive enthusiastic and sexually attractive. Parents spend more time talking to girls while leaving boys alone, punish their sons more often than daughters. Hidden curriculum girls learn that they are not as important as boys. Teachers interact with boys more than girls in classroom. Praise girls for being congenial and neat while boys praised for intellectual quality. E. g housewives of jersey shore, the hills, housewives of disney. All women are beautiful (not all men?) heterosexual and with few exceptions. Television shows / networks directed at helping individuals achieve beauty ideals. Efforts to shape them and how we interpret others bodies are all accomplished socially. Top surgeries are liposuction, rhinoplasty, eye lifts. Dramatic increase in the number of employed women since ww2. Occupations segregated into men"s and women"s jobs.