SOSC 1040 Lecture 9: Tough Guise

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1040
• Professor: Claudio Colaguori

Document Summary

Violence is a gendered" phenomenon a problem tied to socially constructed versions of masculine identity. Masculine identity is learned through cultural texts, social scripts, or media discourses rather than as the result of a biological program. Adam lanza"s murder of 20 children and six adults at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, And this violent ideal of manhood is reproduced by the culture. An american ideal- key points: the link between manhood and violence has been cultivated over time in american popular culture, from. Similar retrenchments have occurred throughout history, from the rise of dime novel. Westerns and cowboy films to the founding of the boy scouts: these backlash trends accelerated during the 1960s, when the civil rights movement, the women"s. Movement, the gay and lesbian equality movements, and the anti-war movement rose up to challenge traditional masculine authority: and masculine retrenchment continues to be a subtext in extreme political movements to this day.