SOC 502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Compulsory Heterosexuality, Social Learning Theory, Masculinity

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 502
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

Early approaches drawn from psychological and psychiatric perspecives. Male abusers are pathological, psychologically ill, prone to alcohol and drug abuse. Men become abusive because of childhood disturbances. Viewed abuse as individual problem speciic to men who are psychologically ill: domineering/ rejecing mother &/or distant/ absent father. Problemaic because: ignores the wider social structures that facilitate and normalize male violence, emphasize individual problems. Researched men who are cyclical abusers (repeated baterers) Male violence against women product of shame and rejecion from fathers & anger and ambivalence from mothers. Combinaion of atenion and rejecion from mothers which leads to being drawn to and fearful of women. Abusers cured through anger management and other psychotherapeuic methods in which they learn to be sensiive to his feelings and desires. Oriented towards abusers psychology and provision of appropriate counselling with focus on individual. Claims behaviour is not normal, can only be altered through counselling and therapy.