College Alcohol Use and the Embodiment of Hegemonic Masculinity among European American Men

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• 作者：Robert L. Peralta
• 关键词：Hegemonic masculinity ; Embodiment ; Gender ; Alcohol ; College ; Qualitative research ; Deviance
• 刊名：Sex Roles
• 出版年：2007
• 出版时间：June, 2007
• 年：2007
• 卷：56
• 期：11-12
• 页码：741-756
• 全文大小：275 KB
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Personality and Social Psychology
  Sexual Behavior
  Interdisciplinary Studies
  Sociology
  Anthropology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-2762

文摘

This article concerns alcohol use as it pertains to the construction of White masculinity through an analysis of students’ accounts. Seventy-eight face-to-face interviews were conducted with volunteer female and male, African American, European American, heterosexual and homosexual students at a mid-sized university. Results suggest that the meaning of public drinking is to express a form of masculinity. In students’ gendered descriptions of their own and peers’ drinking behavior, alcohol use among White men was found to symbolize the embodiment of hegemonic masculinity. Masculinities were constructed via drinking stories, the body’s ability to tolerate alcohol, and the relevance of drinking too little or not at all, which symbolized weakness, homosexuality, or femininity. Implications for social policy and future research are discussed.