Party animals or responsible men

Social class, race, and masculinity on campus

Bibliographic Data

ID12214466
AuthorsBrian Sweeney (,, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume27
Issue6
Pages804-821
Publication date2014-05-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0951-8398 • E-ISSN: 1366-5898
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09518398.2014.901578
OpenAlexW2052154867
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited40

Studies of collegiate party and hookup culture tend to overlook variation along social class and racial/ethnic lines. Drawing on interview data at a “party school” in the Midwest, I examine the meanings and practices of drinking and casual sex for a group of class and race-diverse fraternity men. While more privileged men draw on ideas of age and gender to construct college as a time to let loose, indulge, and explore, men from disadvantaged backgrounds express greater ambivalence toward partying. For these men, partying presents both opportunities and dilemmas and taps into tensions inherent in being upwardly mobile college men. For some, symbolic abstention from extreme party behavior addresses some of these tensions and validates their place on campus. Men’s talk of collegiate partying reveals the dynamic and relational construction of intersectional identities on campus

Ambivalence · Casual · Disadvantaged · Ethnic group · Fraternity · Masculinity · Political science · Race (biology · Social class · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sports, Gender, and Society

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