SOC379H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hypermasculinity, Cultural Capital, Ethics
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Outline: notes on direction, seductions of crime, drugs, context and responses, migrants in germany, rave context, prison context, test discussion. Experience of being seduced to shoplift, you do not know what you are going to take. Reconquering fears to appear normal", making sure no one is watching you, blending in: euphoric thrill of accomplishment. Item is much less significant that the psychological boost its giving: bad ass. Badass conception of self, it"s a situation you live, your poor, you have little control over your life, this is a way to exert some control. Hyper-masculinity: deviant sexuality, emotional meanness, or violent activity. Failure to dominate external environment, they want to control the situation they are in, but they cant. Create identity removed from conventional values, using it as a way to characterize yourself: attempt at order/control, transcend the dominant order, those rules don"t matter, Commits to the possibility of violence, you are committing to the possibility that they may resist.
