SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cherry Picking, Social Inequality, Masculinity
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Soc275 lecture 10: won"t ask stats and women violence, how do we understand association btwn masculinity and violence, 1 hormones: testosterone correlated with violence but research doesn"t cause violence only exaggerates violence. Rapist not interested in reproduction but expression of power, wear condom, why hurt or murder if want to pass on genes. Why homo men or straight men rape men when there is no reproduction involved. Behavior is adaptation but violence not great solution. Critical of ideas that are based on selective evidence and explaining what already is. Separation require is cultural, idea to mature and achieve autonomy is cultural like us and german. Culture definition affects what masculinity is: social context, pg349: american parenting: shows how context matter like in early 1990 boys were encouraged to fight and toughen up. Seems silly but still our definition of masculinity still shape us in important ways and important in society where violence is low.
