CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 72Gender Roles and Identity StudiesGender and Feminist StudiesSports, Gender, and Society

Negotiating Masculinities in American Drinking Subcultures

West, Lois A.·2001·The Journal of Men’s Studies
DOI 10.3149/jms.0903.371
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Drinking cultures are the means by which men negotiate masculinities in leisure activities. This exploratory article examines similarities and differences between two American male drinking subcultures—the fraternity and the U.S. Navy. It shows that in their leisure alcohol use, men negotiate subordinate and dominant masculinities within real-life everyday experiences of increasing cultural diversity. Alcohol use facilitates the creation of masculine homosociality by developing a sense of community and trust, and perpetuates certain kinds of American masculine traditions. It facilitates and inhibits negotiations over social boundaries and hierarchies of class, race/ethnicity, and sexuality. Status hierarchies get negotiated through competitive drinking games, humor, and heterosexual significations. Male alcohol subcultures enact, contradict, negotiate, and challenge a society's masculinities in complex and diverse ways in this ethnography done on the West Coast.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.3149/jms.0903.371

Cites

32 of 32 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

2 of the 34 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
West, L. A.
Affiliations
Florida International University (US)
Corresponding author
West, Lois A.
Venue
The Journal of Men’s Studies
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2001-06
Volume
9
Issue
3
Pages
371-392
ISSN
  • 1060-8265 (ISSN-L)
  • 1933-0251
DOI
10.3149/jms.0903.371
OpenAlex
W2139152207
Cited by
72
References
34
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 8
FWCI
2.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
The Journal of Men s Studies (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sports, Gender, and Society
Keywords
masculinity, fraternities, United States Navy, homosociality, social hierarchy, social boundaries, sexuality, leisure

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review