SOC 4900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hegemonic Masculinity, Antonio Gramsci, Masculinity

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 4900
• Professor: pudis

Document Summary

Isolation (recruits are isolated: no contact with the outside world. Technical skills: want to know how to drive, chase other vehicles, fire arms, fitness, arresting, taking someone down without hurting them. Hegemony (gramsci) explain how you can get consent from the public by the dominant group allows the dominant group to remain in power: make it seem like its natural. Masculinity: middle-class achieved through athletics and education achievement, working-class related to loyalty, strengths, fighting, and whit, men should be rational and not emotional, masculinity is everything that is not feminine, how masculine you appear to be, police. Started with working class masculinity and is now closer to middle class. Message is that women are not wanted. Academy training (hidden curriculum: what trainees are still learning from what people are saying and doing in the academy. Denigrating and objectifying women: instructional material. Resisting powerful women"s authority: instructors and students were not treated with respect.