Hard Men, Shop Boys and Others
Embodying Competence in a Masculinist Occupation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3439773 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lee F Monaghan (0000-0001-5971-8357, Newcastle University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 334-355 |
| Publication date | 2002-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-954x.00386 |
| OpenAlex | W2111300256 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 50 |
| References cited | 35 |
Emerging studies on private security work in Britain's night-time economy explore important sociological themes such as masculinities and violence. Contributing rich ethnography to this literature, and in furthering an embodied sociology, this paper describes the gendered construction of competency among 'bouncers' or door supervisors within the context of their potentially violent work. Centrally, it explores the door supervisors' variable bodily capital (comprising body build and acquired techniques of the body) alongside normative limits to their violence. Here physicality is central to the practicalities of doorwork, risk management and the embodiment of dominant and subordinate masculinities. Within doorwork culture, embodied typifications such as 'hard men', 'shop boys' and others (eg, 'bullies' and 'nutters') are related to assessments of possible violence against doorstaff, the delineation of (flexible) boundaries for their own (in)appropriate violence against 'problematic' customers and the construction of competent identity. Besides contributing empirical data to the literature this paper underscores the integrative potential of embodiment for social scientists and urges policy makers to appreciate the degree to which (potential) violence is embodied in the night-time economy
Aesthetics · Competence (human resources) · Context (archaeology) · Criminology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ethnography · Identity (music) · Normative · Political science · Sociology · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender Studies and Social Issues · Law · Night-time city culture · Psychology · Social Psychology
“You Wanna Come to the ‘Urban’ Night Tomorrow… It’s the Wrong Night Tonight”
Domesticating military masculinities
Bodies Matter
It’s All About the Body
Wozu der Körper noch ‚Ja’ sagt, wenn der Geist ‚Nein’ sagt
Bar Wars
The Glass Slipper
Drugs, Clubs and Young People
On Re-considering The First as a News Value to Avoid Stereotyping
From violent to vulnerable? How door staff police illicit drugs in the United Kingdom’s night-time economy
Danger on the doors
The Impact of the Private Security Industry Regulation Act and other Legislative Frameworks on Private Securities Operating in Drinking Establishments in South Africa
Parades, Parties and Pests
Boosting bodily capital
Fathering, masculinity and the embodiment of care
Performing Gender by Performing Music
The Production of Difference and Maintenance of Inequality
Heroes and Matriarchs’
Doorwork and Legal Risk
IV. Working Without Sacrifice
It is Just a Joke!” Informal Interaction and Gendered Processes Underground
Agricultural body-building
Violent Night
Hegemonic masculinity at work in the gay adult film industry
Bouncer service work
The Body of a Performer as a Form of Capital
Training Bodies, Building Status
Promoting and Hindering Health and Well-Being in Firefighter Discourse
What Is ‘Body Work’? A Review of the Literature
Reconfiguring the violent encounter? Preloading, security staff and breathalyser use in the night-time economy
Being on both sides
Gendered tensions
Temporary home
Connecting the gendered door
The Performative Landscape of Going-To-Work
Gender Capital and Male Bodybuilders
Habit(us), Body Techniques and Body Callusing
Using indigenous sport as resistance against migrant exclusion
Estrogen-Filled Worlds
Did you ever hear of police being called to a beer festival?' Discourses of merriment, moderation and 'civilized' drinking amongst real ale enthusiasts
Co-constituting Bodyguarding Practice through Embodied Reflexivity
Guarding the Body
Representing shop work
Don't Use 'the Weak Word
Gender and the achievement of skilled status in the workplace
Organised Violence, Inequality and Work
Flaunting and Empowerment
In the Club
The Cultural Politics of Body Size
Intervention or Involvement
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
The Lived Body
Police (canteen) sub-culture. An appreciation
Rabelais and his world
Reflections on the problem of relevance
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Outline of a Theory of Practice
The Body and Social Theory
Making Bodies Matter
Violence in the night‐time economy; bouncers
Hegemonic Masculinity Revisited
Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited
Badfellas
Remedial Work
A Top Night
The lived body
Door Lore'. The Art and Economics of Intimidation
The Body
Receiving shadows
Regulating 'unruly' bodies
Honor, Normative Ambiguity and Gang Violence
Pugs at Work
Ducktails, flick-knives and pugnacity
Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men's well-being
Muscle, `Hard Men' and `Iron' Mike Tyson
Violent Pasts
Embodiment, Experience and Theory
Territoriality
Edgework
Toward a Phenomenology of Domestic, Family Violence
Participant Observation and the Collection and Interpretation of Data
Violence and the Police
Techniques of the body∗
| Unique citing works | 50 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,17 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2025 (23) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 46 |