Above is the final project presentation we-- Portia Gottschall, Kami Rutherford, Angie Wilmot, and I, co-created for our Men, Women, and Society class (Sociology 3355) this fall semester. The presentation was supposed to cover two overriding concepts from our coursework this semester. If you take a look you'll see the ideas we chose to cover are social construction and hegemonic masculinity but we took it a step further and also discussed the gender continuum and applied them all to women in the Marines.
I think the best part of the whole presentation was our encouragement of the class to figuratively follow along with us "putting on our Sociology glass" to take a look at these concepts. To drive how this point we gave each student an outline of sunglasses with a Crayola crayon. I mean, who doesn't like to color?
Social constructionism and hegemonic masculinity are threaded throughout military culture. Taking a closer look was really an eyeopener for me. Two of our group members were in a branch of the military- the Navy and the Marines. Doing research and having those firsthand examples was vital to our approach for this particular project.
I leave you with this quote:
“They are Marines. They don’t have a nickname and they don’t need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere at a Marine post. They inherit the traditions of Marines. They are Marines.”
-Gen. Thomas Holcomb, Commandant of the Marine Corps
From a 1944 interview with Life Magazine
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