(Course Essay #2)
Deonte M. Eckwood
Ashlee Bledsoe
Special Topics I: Gender & Society
2 December 2015
How does the combination of gender, sex, and class determine the social status of people? Masculinity comes in much variety, which allow social interactions to be shaped. The variety of masculinity ranges from hegemonic masculinity, machismo, male privilege, gender equality, etc. This topic is interesting due to the fact that it elaborates and gives clarification on the aspects the indicate and which people are eligible to have certain types of powers of masculinity. The depending variables range from race, gender, sex, economic status, political views, etc.
According to the online article “Psychology of Men & Masculinity” …show more content…
Another factor that may have been overlooked may be if some of the people who have been put into place of hegemonic masculinity actually want the male privilege presented to them, how have these people come into power.
How does the combination of gender, sex, and class determine the social status of people? In forms of general studies, hegemonic masculinity is a concept, which was popularized by a sociologist by the name of R.W. Connell. Hegemonic masculinity is currently a practice that promoted the dominance of the social positions of men opposed to the subordinate social positions of women. The television show in viewing entitled “Empire” created and directed by co-creators
Lee Daniels and Danny Strong contain many instances asserting hegemonic power/ masculinity when applied by the owner of a multi-million dollar music company,
Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard). There has been instances in the televised broadcast where the leading character verbally asserts his dominance as the hegemonic masculine leader to his adult children who also work for the company by stating “I am Empire” and “All executive decision go through me”. …show more content…
Those of the male gender who possessed traits of intelligence and occupied their time with scholarly activities such as the debate team and student government were also seen as fag and lacking machismo. A girl in the article also stated that she labeled a guy at her school a fag because he wouldn’t skip school and go out with her. Male Privilege “the social theory which argues that men have unearned social, economic, and political advantages or rights that are granted to them solely on the basis of their sex, and which are usually denied to women”. In the article “Helpers,
Enforcers, and Go-Betweens: Black Females in Elementary School Classrooms” by author Linda Grant, Lisa Grant explains that “Schools are important sites for learning about social rankings related to race, gender, and class, even though they operate under the rhetoric of “equal opportunity” ”. The article goes on to state “Of the twenty-six Black girls assigned to the five interviewed teachers, 23 percent were rated as high, 42 percent as average, and 35 percent as low or below average” the
article also goes on to say 20 percent of the white males rated average, and only 11 percent of the white males were rated as below average, but to those