A link to a journal article about the rise of
the automobile and its coinciding with Fordism, Capitalism,
automation, and its
connection the middle class and being a symbol of disposable income. It is an
important
piece because it allows the reader to see how external factors shape
and influence things that are believed to
be individual behavioural patterns,
and instead, since they are external, are thus changeable. It points out that
the automobile came to symbolize several aspects of manhood: independence,
income, freedom, mobility,
and a machine like attitude. The machine automobile
and the personality of men became intertwined: cold,
steely, brave, decisive,
strong, all became attributes of masculinity, a machine man for a machine
world. This
piece helps to illustrate some of the origins of contemporary
masculinity when understood in a larger social
and economic cultural context.
Hello! Please find here a list of all portfolio items gathered for my Sociology of Hope class final portfolio project! I hope you find this discussion and analysis on contemporary masculinity an interesting and enlightening experience!
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