SOC 102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hegemonic Masculinity, Toxic Masculinity, Home Children
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Explain the process through which gender-based socialization occurs. At home: children playing at home, parents pass on beliefs about gender, androgyny the combination of feminine and masculine characteristics in the same individual. Play: children"s books are very gendered females dependent and submissive. Language is gendered ignoring, trivializing, and sexualizing women terms referring to men imply power and success, whereas women imply promiscuity or subordination: many derogatory terms for women, few for men. Identify key ways in which hegemonic masculinity is perpetuated through everyday interactions. Toxic masculinity very extreme: promotes violence, narrow, and rigid ways for men to express emotions, has a lot to do with rape culture. Sexual harassment and assault: we are in a period of time where celebrities are bring publicly confronted for this, #metoo. Men do not confront other men over this toxicity. Role - emphasizes traits that individuals acquire.
