The Perfect 10: “Sportspeak” in the Language of Sexual Relations

This paper explores the use of the sports metaphor in the language of sexual relations. Data were collected from a questionnaire administered to a select sample of 127 undergraduate students. The results indicated widespread familiarity and use of this type of language, especially among males. Far from being innocuous, the use of the sports metaphor in this intimate area of life operates as a subtle, yet powerful component of a larger cultural discourse that contributes to the social construction of male hegemony in society. In particular, “sportspeak” in the language of sexual relations functions as a mechanism for transforming a human relations issue into a technical problem, for objectifying women, and for constructing notions of masculine hegemony and hegemonic masculinity.

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Discourse(s), social construction and language practices: In conversation with Alvesson and Kärreman

Human Relations ◽

10.1177/0018726711408366 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 64 (9) ◽

pp. 1177-1191 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Social Construction ◽

Ethnographic Research ◽

Language Practices ◽

Human Relations ◽

Organization Studies ◽

The Social ◽

Semiotic Approach ◽

Embodied Engagement

This piece seeks to extend a conversation that Alvesson and Kärreman started in 2000 from the pages of Human Relations and are continuing in their 2011 article; a conversation that is of great interest well beyond management and organization studies. Through a linguistics perspective that is attentive to the peculiarities of the discourse vocabulary but also seeks to probe aspects of its conceptual import, I will explore the significance of understandings of discourse circulating within the social sciences. I will continue with reflections on select difficulties raised by ‘social construction-unlimited’ before highlighting some of the benefits of a social semiotic approach to ethnographic research centred on the concept of indexicality. I will conclude with an invitation to ‘bring the researcher back’, in an embodied engagement with the field that can help put discourse in ‘its right place’.

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TAUTAN KONTEKS SITUASI DAN KONTEKS BUDAYA: KAJIAN LINGUISTIK SISTEMIK FUNGSIONAL PADA CERITA TERJEMAHAN FIKSI ”HALILIAN”

LITERA ◽

10.21831/ltr.v10i1.1174 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Rosmawaty Rosmawaty

Keyword(s):

Social Construction ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Leisure Time ◽

Social Reality ◽

Human Beings ◽

Human Relations ◽

The Social

Halilian is a prose or story presented in a relaxing situation or leisure time. The Angkola community’s social reality, local wisdom, socio-cultural values, and ideology reflected in the Halilian text can be revealed through a systemic functionallinguistics study. This study tries to reveal the social construction, comprising men’sand women’s positions and roles in society. Human relations and life nuances due to the relations vary, depending on the problems that each actor encounters. Human beings have problems related to family and society. The findings show that in the Angkola culture: (1) it is necessary to pay a visit to parents wherever one lives because this has effects on life, (2) one must keep promise, (3) there is still a belief in spirits, and (4) the husband-wife interaction is a one way interaction, with the husband’s power being stronger than the wife’s.

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The Social Construction of Prejudice among Black and White College Students

NASPA Journal ◽

10.2202/0027-6014.1222 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Timothy D Radloff ◽

Nancy Evans

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Social Construction ◽

Focus Groups ◽

Predominantly White ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Black And White ◽

The Social ◽

Recommendations For Practice ◽

Distinctive Difference ◽

White College

The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a distinctive difference between the prejudice of Black and White college students at a predominantly White Midwest university. Using focus groups, we explored the perceptions that Black and White undergraduate students have of each other and how they socially encounter each other on campus. We offer recommendations for practice based on the results of this study.

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The Return of Nature: Feminism, Hegemonic Masculinities, and New Materialisms

Men and Masculinities ◽

10.1177/1097184x17725128 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 380-403 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Steve Garlick

Keyword(s):

Social Construction ◽

Feminist Theory ◽

Social Relations ◽

Hegemonic Masculinity ◽

Critical Studies ◽

New Concepts ◽

The Social ◽

New Materialisms ◽

Men And Masculinities

It has generally been taken for granted within the field of Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities (CSMM) that the object of attention and concern is to be found within “the social” and in opposition to naturalizing claims about gender. Nature is not entirely absent from CSMM, often appearing either as malleable material or as a stable basis for the social construction of bodies. In this article, however, I suggest that the time is ripe to develop new concepts of nature by drawing on new materialist theories that are increasingly influential within feminist theory. This move opens up the possibility of strengthening the connections between materialist traditions in CSMM and contemporary developments in feminist theory. This article proceeds by reviewing different forms of materialism within feminist theory and argues that new materialist theories offer insights that can benefit CSMM. In particular, I argue that the theory of hegemonic masculinity needs to be expanded beyond the framework of patriarchy and recast in relation to the place of nature in the complex ecology of human social relations.

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Hegemonic Masculinity

The New Arab Man ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691148885.003.0002 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Marcia C. Inhorn

Keyword(s):

Social Construction ◽

Feminist Theory ◽

Hegemonic Masculinity ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Social Constructionist ◽

The Social ◽

Social Construction Of Gender ◽

The Individual ◽

Structure Versus

This chapter argues that any ethnographic study of masculinity must begin with R.W. Connell's theory of hegemonic masculinity. It has been incredibly influential in masculinity research since the 1980s, and has greatly influenced some early work of Egyptian masculinity and sexuality. As the only social constructionist analytic developed specifically for studying masculinity, hegemonic masculinity has been widely used since its 1985 introduction. Drawing explicitly from feminist theory and Marxist sociology, Connell sought to reconcile the lived reality of inequality among men with the fact of men's group dominance over women. This new theory sought to examine hierarchical inequality among men, relate analysis of masculinity to feminist insights on the social construction of gender, and resist the dichotomy of structure versus the individual plaguing contemporary studies of gender and class.

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