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Tag: masculinity

  • Representations of men in the media

    This post focuses on traditional representations of men as reinforcing aspects of hegemonic masculinity before considering some of the changes to male representations in more recent years. Traditional representations of men reinforce hegemonic masculinity Traditional representations of men have ascribed certain attributes to male characters such as strength, power, control, authority, rationality and lack of…

  • Analyse two reasons why men might commit more crime than women (10)

    This is a possible ’10 mark with item question’ question which might come up on the AQA’s A level sociology crime and deviance with theory and methods paper (7192/3). I’ve just got this intuitive feeling that IF a 10 mark question comes up on gender, it will ask candidates to focus on masculinity and male…

  • Technology Enchantment and Arousal Addiction

    A summary of Zimbardo and Coulombe’s Man Disconnected, part 4. It seemed appropriate to devote a whole blog post to this chapter (chapter 11) as this seems to be the main thrust of the book. (No, the book’s not that well organised!) Chapter 11: Technology Enchantment and Arousal Addiction J.R.R. Tolkein used the word ‘enchantment’…

  • Man Disconnected #2: Why are young men in crisis?

    Man Disconnected by Zimbardo and Coulombe is about the challenges young men face in our technological age. This post summarizes chapters 8-10.  If you like this sort of thing, then you might also like… Man Disconnected summary part 1: which deals with the evidence of the problems faced by young men today. Man Disconnected summary part 3:…

  • White Working Class Men

    Professor Green’s fronted an excellent recent documentary on the lives of 6 white working class men for Channel Four, which aired in January 2018. In an interview with John Snow (about the documentary), Professor Green (who is himself white working class) says the show was born out the fact that only 10% of white working…

  • Man Disconnected

    Man Disconnected

    Amid shifting social, economic and technological climates, young men are getting left behind, at least according to Philip Zimbardo and Nikita D. Coulombe in their 2015 book ‘Man Disconnected: How the Digital Age is Changing Young Men Forever‘. The two authors cite a range of anecdotal and research-evidence (some of it primary) to put forward…

  • Gender and Education Summary Grid for A Level Sociology.

    There are three main types of question for gender and education – achievement (why do girls generally do better than boys); subject choice (why do they choose different subjects) and the trickier question of how gender identities affect experience of schooling and how school affects gender identities. Below is the briefest of overviews(*it would be…