Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sexual Orientation, Masculinity, Bsc Young Boys
10 Dec 2018
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Gender: identity, expression, performance, roles (norms/institutions, sexual orientation, consciousness, relations. Video: the representation project"s the mask you live in: director: jennifer siebel newson, kanopy. com. He wears a mask and his face grows to t it . Be a man one of the most destructive phrases in modern society. Masculinity is reactive; it"s a rejection of everything that is feminine: pop culture, parental culture, society, peer policing system that assesses whether a man is man enough. Masculinity: dominance, aggression, unemotional, athletic, economic success, sexual conquest: being a man doesn"t have a thing to do with athletic ability. School more speci cally peers at school is the training ground for masculinity. Gender: social construct; a spectrum; can overlap. By the time a boy is 5, a boy learns not to cry in public; by the time he"s 10, he should have perfected it; if he"s still crying when he"s 12, there"s a problem.
