Tag Archives: masculinity

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

Posted on March 16, 2018 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Technology Enchantment and Arousal Addiction

Posted on March 4, 2018 by

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on February 18, 2018 by

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 … Continue reading →

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White Working Class Men

Posted on February 5, 2018 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Man Disconnected

Posted on February 3, 2018 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Gender and Education Summary Grid for A Level Sociology.

Posted on April 19, 2017 by

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 … Continue reading →

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