01:920:222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Culture Of The Southern United States, Masculinity, Elijah Anderson

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: 01:920:222
• Professor: Professor Covington

Document Summary

Oliver bases his theory on ethnographic study: observes sample of 41 bms in a bar, observes these 41 bms get involved in 86 violent confrontations & an additional. 30 violent arguments: such confrontations are also common in bar-like settings, bms are more prone to these violent confrontations than wms b/c they have more reputational implications for bms. Problems with black subculture of violent theories: how rigid are they cultural rules requiring violence in the black subculture of violence, explore this by looking at ethnographic study done by oliver, he observes bms in bar. These bms get involved in 86 violent confrontations & 30 violent arguments. Still, bms in oliver"s study committed 6 violent acts at most. Race man identities being a good man of your race or trying to advance ones race (ie martin luther king); same as protest masculinities. B/c black subculture of violence theorists ignore black political beliefs (ie curtis,