SOC345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bro Code, Heteronormativity, Urban Dictionary
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Adoloesence as a life stage between childhood & adulthood. Transition to adulthood used to be marked by puberty, completing high school, moving out, getting married, finding a secure job. Our sense of our different stages we go through in life are subject to change. Adolescents marked the transition to adulthood -> its fairly gendered (especially historical literature) Looked @ adolescents & how there is a lot of insecurity for men in. >now people don"t find a secure job, they go through different jobs in their. >now -> this is not always the case its normal for people to not have gone. Kimmel says that young men exist in (cid:498)guy land(cid:499) (cid:523) a space & place/purgatory(cid:524) > exiting childhood but still hasn"t made the transition to adulthood. Values & norms in guyland that allow young men to feel like adults without through all these stages by the age of 27 having successfully achieved some of these markers.
