SOC362H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Jackson Katz, Sut Jhally, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
Document Summary
Tough guise 2: violence, manhood & american culture. America loves violence in the form of entertainment and ritual but also shudders in horror when there is real life violence. Jackson katz studies causes of violence with special focus on cultural ideas of manhood that shapes political culture works to prevent men"s violence against women and children. Men and boys commit more violent acts. Topic rarely come into discussion to understand why men are mostly perpetrators men often described as genderless beings. Ignoring gender becomes a problem focus on factors such as family problems, video games, violent culture but don"t realize that girls live in the same societies and don"t have the same problem. Mainstream discussion - people focus on helping women and survivors instead of seeing why men are the problem. Taken more seriously when done by girls/women gender becomes story. In all groups race, sexual orientation, and gender the dominant group (straight, white men) don"t get examined.
