SOCB22H3 Study Guide - Masculinity
Document Summary
Working class masculinity: keeping gay men and lesbian out of the workplace. Attitudes toward lesbian and gay rights have become more progressive. Attitudes toward lesbian and gay and lesbian rights are not becoming more progressive instead various methods of discrimination are increasingly being used to exclude them form the workplace. White working class emphasizes the need to maintain a place of privilege in the race, gender and sexual identity hierarchy. White male solidarity- a collective practice directed toward women. People of color, and non- heterosexuals that maintain racism and sexism, and homophobia in the local, national, and global context. Ingraham defined heteronormativity as the view that institutionalized heterosexuality constitutes the standard for legitimate and prescriptive sociosexual arrangement . Institutionalization of heterosexuality becomes infused with masculinity to create heteromasculine practices. Example men hold negative points of gays more than women. Men are more likely than women to commit verbal assaults and violence towards homosexuals.
