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KPE 100

Physical Cultural Studies

Week 4 October 5, 2022

Agenda

• Guest
• What questions do you have?
• Choosing a current event
• ‘Key Concept of the Week’
• Break
• Reading – Adams & Barnes (Chapter 6)
• Research – Wright et al (2012)
• Next week

CHOOSING A CURRENT EVENT

Your goal – Connect the journal article you have chosen to a current event

Step 2 – Connect to a current event The Verge – September 2013

Step 3 – Write the paper What ideas, findings or insights from the journal article can be applied to your current event? How might they be applied? Examples:

• people now use technology to reinvent themselves and their identities
• online culture is redefining ‘reality’
• the boundaries between online/offline are tenuous

Social stratification in professional hockey Of players in the Ontario Hockey League (Major Junior A):

• 80% come from neighbourhoods with family incomes above the provincial average.
• 15% come from neighbourhoods with family incomes 50% above the provincial average.
• Vast majority come from urban areas (close to rinks, training facilities, etc). Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/nhl-allstar-leafs-habs-canucks- sens-oilers-jets-flames-private-school-education-hockey-1.

WHAT QUESTIONS DO YOU HAVE?

10 Concepts for 10 Weeks

• Social stratification
• The ‘Sociological

Imagination’

• Agency vs. Structure
• Social construction
• Identity
  • Policy implications
  • Social stigma
  • The Body
  • Hegemony
  • Discourse

Social Construction

WEEK 4 – Key Concept of the Week

Social Construction - 2 All of us, as social actors and members of society, participate in constructing the ideas, norms and values that come to form the society.

Social Construction - 3

To say that something is socially constructed is…

1. NOT to say that it is wrong or false or fake

2. To say that it has been produced , and

3. Therefore to say that it is open to analysis, evaluation or

even critique, deconstruction and reconstruction

Activity

Social Construction - 5 ‘Codes of Masculinity’ Masculinity means…

• Rational
• Tough
• Closed
• Stoic
• Disciplined ‘Codes of Femininity’ Femininity means…
  • Emotional
  • Soft
  • Open
  • Excitable
  • Caring