Impact of peer group in the development and construction of masculinity

Abstract

Peer group plays an important role in the construction of masculine identity or masculinity. The impact of peer group culture torments during adolescence where boys construct their notions of masculinity by participating in the peer group culture. The present paper explores how notions of masculinity are constructed by interaction with the peers at a school in South Kolkata. The paper uses the technique of ‘mixed methodology’ in order to survey of thirty adolescent boys (aged 16-17 years) who study in an English medium school (Class XI and Class XII) of South Kolkata. The findings indicated that the adolescent boys mix and interact with both male and female friends based on certain grounds They interact with those male peers who conform to the notion of hegemonic masculinity ------- those peers who are straight, powerful, strong and masculine. However, the adolescent boys tend to ostracize those peers who do not conform to the notion of hegemonic masculinity and are regarded as ‘effiminate’. These boys interact with their female peers in order to attain greater status among his peer group since most men treat women as objects of sexual pleasure and entertainment.

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Madhurima Dasgupta

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Madhurima Dasgupta (2017). Impact of peer group in the development and construction of masculinity. International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS), 4(2), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-31106