期刊名称:African Sociological Review / Revue Africaine de Sociologie
印刷版ISSN:1027-4332
出版年度:2014
卷号:18
期号:2
页码:82-94
出版社:CODESRIA
摘要:This paper considers the concurrent discourses of risk and respectability which are prominent in South Africa’s Western Cape region and asks how one becomes a ‘respectable’ man in a community which values strong masculine role models and in which there are endemic levels of violence. Through a process of risk ‘mapping’ we explore the means through which a group of young male student teachers consciously ‘locate’ risk in their built environment. We look at the strategies these young men use to negotiate risk in their lives, and the close connection between risk and respectability which they articulate on an ongoing basis. Keywords : discourse; male, risk, respectability, violence, masculinity.