CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Karioris, Frank George |
|---|---|
| Title | Between Class & Friendship: Homosociality in an All-Male Residence Hall in the U.S. |
| Summary | Based on extensive residential fieldwork, this dissertation aims to present a more rounded perspective on men’s homosocial relations than current literature in Critical Studies of Men & Masculinities and demonstrate the importance of these relations in these men’s lives, within the context of an all-male residence hall at a midsized, private university in the USA. It aims to showcase the cross-disciplinary lacuna that exists on this topic in both anthropological studies of men and their relations, as well as within the field of Higher Education and its understanding of the way that men socialize and orient themselves during their first year at university. In this way the dissertation hopes to open up a discussion not just about these specific men and their relations, but also to locate the role that the university itself as a primary socialization institution has in the creation of these roles, production of gender subjectivities, and positions; in particular as universities take on greater and greater importance for wider and wider groupings of people within the United States. I argue that these homosocial relationships provide an insight into the institutional mechanisms of the university, as well as opening up a more rounded understanding of the role that these relationships play in these guys’ lives during their time at university. Further, I argue that university sets up a particular heteronormative framework for students and in so doing it positions the campus in spatial and temporal ways that are aligned with this, to which the guys’ homosocial relations act as a form of resisting these spatio-temporal constructions and pursuing a vision of space and time that is constituted through enactments of homosociality |
| Supervisor | Monterescu, Daniel |
| Department | Gender Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/karioris_frank.pdf |
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