SOC345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Purgatory, Masculinity, Heteronormativity
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Useful to pay attention to adolescence, highlighting how any stages in life are subject to change. Interesting to look at how different stages change. Adolescence marking transition to adulthood, straight-forward and gendered: used to be marked by: puberty, complete high school, move out, get married, find secure job, fairly rare for men to get through all of those stages. Finding a secure job: people end up moving through careers over lifetime. Historically: who accomplished these stages: rooted in white american male experience, speaking to one kind of adolescence, dependent upon sample, does consider how adolescence is deeply gendered. Pascoe: teenage boys talk about jocks and gender. Interviewed 20 teen boys from 2 high schools. Masculinity is discursively manipulated so boys maintain or create a sense of se lf as masculine, even when they are less masculine in the school"s hierarchy. Ability to express non-masculine traits, background of jock to prove masculinity. Girls function as status symbols, sexual objects not girlfriends.
