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Hidden Brain - NPR Podcast Indicate which podcast episode you listened to (highlight, circle, or underline) ● “Man Up” - How a Fear of Appearing Feminine Restricts Men, and Affects All of Us ● Fake News - An Origin Story ● The Weight of Our Words ● The Huddled Masses and the Myth of America ● Hookup Culture: The Unspoken Rules of Sex on College Campuses During the podcast: ● Approach the podcast from each of the three major theories within sociology. As you listen, record thoughts, questions, & connections in the appropriate column. Thinking like a Structural Functionalist Thinking Like a Conflict Theorist Traditional expectations cause context for ideas of what is accepted. College- world restricts the choices of men Psychologist did an exercise on a time that men and women felt like they were acting outside their gender. Men and women looked at it very differently with men being more black and white about it with thinks like wearing a pink shirt. From a young age men are taught what “being a man” is and are told some things are off limits. Pressure to not show any non male traits.

Concepts to consider: social institutions, agents of socialization, function and dysfunction, manifest & latent functions, social pathology, social disorganization, anomie, social stability, slow social change

Men appearing feminine aren’t the part of the greater dominant group. Social inequality in how men are expected to behave, how men are treated when they aren’t traditional.

Concepts to consider: competition, resources, power, privilege, marginalization, social groups, dominant & subordinate, institutional discrimination, Marxist approach, non-Marxist approach, social inequality, social change

Thinking like a Symbolic Shared activities described like scouting and then joining the navy. Straight men wouldn’t say that men are attractive, but women don’t have that kind of issue.

Concepts to consider: symbols, interaction, tabula rasa, Thomas Theorem, Blumer’s 3 Premises, Looking Glass Self, labeling theory, personal deviation, verstehen, social construction of reality

After the podcast: Reflect! Share your reactions, thoughts, and questions about the podcast episode you listened to. I think this is a really important topic. Masculinity concept is why men have such a high suicide rate. They can’t talk about anything they have to have a persona. Male mental health is not treated enough, not accepted enough. ●

● Which of the three major theories did you find most applicable to the podcast episode? Explain using specific vocabulary. Conflict, I think. Some traditional “male” positions are choices are connected to high earnings and the power and privilege that can go along with that. There can be an inequality with how men that don’t fit that particular idea of others are treated and viewed.

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What was the social issue being discussed? Why is this type of social science research important for society?

I think it is gender inequality. When people talk about that they are usually talking about inequality towards women. In this case it’s inequality towards men who want to make different choices than what might be typically considered male. Also how men are limiting their own choices based on these traditional views. It is very important that this continues to be a topic because the quality of life for men can be impacted by these issue....