Masculinity Readings and Research

Adolescent Masculinity, Homophobia,and Violence Random School Shootings, 1982-2001 is a qualitative study, in American Behavioral Scientist about who randomly shoots up schools and why. 

How do the authors conduct their study? (In other words, how do they gather their data?)

What are their conclusions about who shoots schools and why?

What are their conclusions about why some of the people do not shoot schools?

Five experts on masculinity from Contexts who have spent a great deal of time interviewing and studying teenage boys’ relationships, often with surprising results that debunk conventional wisdom:

Niobe Way

C.J. Pascoe

Mark McCormack

Amy Schalet

Freeden Oeur

Dude You're a Fag is a 2007 ethnography called , sociologist CJ Pascoe studied high school peer groups and how they sanction gender norms.  Excerpt is here.

Pascoe’s claim:

Pascoe’s Evidence: