Violent crime can be seen as a highly masculine activity. ... As Ray states, 'if there is an underlying biological tendency towards masculine violence, this should manifest similarly in different cultures and places, which it does not' (2011:85). This, therefore, arguing against the theory of biological disorders which links men with violence, as if this was the case then all men with these biological traits would be committing the same masculine form of violence, no matter what race, age, culture or part of society they live in. ... Moving onto the crisis of masculinity, Ray evalua...

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It has been a question in consideration to many sociologists that whether the social identity of the individual is something that can be chosen and interpreted or that it is similar to that of an actor whose roles and lines are already written. ... Mead focused on how an individual passes through a series of stages in taking on their social identity. ... Learning and negotiating the social identities is a continuous process throughout their lives. Through the family the child's identity is formed, a process identified by Cooley as primary socialisation. ... Many great opportunities are a...

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Name: Andrew Verrijdt One of the most important political and social movements of the twentieth century has been the drive towards achieving complete equality for all people regardless of race, colour, class, gender identity, mental state or physical impairment. ... It was further found that this was not wholly due to the use of the masculine pronoun as a generic: "97 percent of the uses of "he" referred male humans or animals, or to persons presumed to be male" (the examples he cites are sailors and farmers). ... Silveira also found that both men and women tend to visualise male figures w...

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