Men's Cultural Citizenship
Fraternities and brotherhoods can play a significant role regarding men’s cultural citizenship. What does it mean to belong to a brotherhood? What are the benefits and privileges? What are the implications regarding gendered discourses of power?
The collegiate experience of Greek-letter organisations collegiate in the United States of America have marked a prominent arena where men’s cultural citizenship discourse are approximated and demonstrated. Literature that have emerged in the last decades points to the suggestion that the brotherhood cherished by fraternity men have produced an organisational space that not only sanctions, but promotes the prioritisation of privilege (Clark, 2012; Hughey, 2010; cf. Anderson, 2008), as well as the attainment …show more content…
In its origins, fraternities developed as secret societies that had primarily scholarly purposes (Torbenson, 2005) in which members could freely discuss controversial subjects, such as politics, that their faculties would otherwise deem inappropriate and be reprimanded of given the period of historical revolution strife (Lee, 1955). Although the first fraternities laid prominence on ethical development (Earley, 1995), familial bonding and camaraderie between members’ rooted in reciprocal trust and loyalty that is also shared with fraternities dominant in Northern American colleges in the present times (Case, Hesp, & Eberly, 2005; Yeung et al., 2006), the fraternities have been now predominantly utilised and recognised for its social features (Hesp & Brooks, 2009; McCabe, 2011). In Torbensons’ (2005, pp. 43) succinct words, “whereas literary societies once filled the intellectual vacuum of college life, Greek-letter fraternities filled the social vacuum.” With a prominent focus on socialising, fraternity mens’ experience of identity is perhaps one that remains intricately …show more content…
M. (2003). Black Greek 101: The culture, customs, and challenges of black fraternities and sororities. Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press.
Lee, A. M. (1955). Fraternities without brotherhood: A study of prejudice on the American campus. Boston: Beacon Press.
Marmaros, D., & Sacerdote, B. (2002). Peer and social networks in job search. European Economic Review, 46, 870-879. doi: 10.1.1.177.41
Martin, G. L., Hevel, M. S., Asel, A. H., & Pascarella, E. T. (2011). New evidence on the effects of fraternity and sorority affiliatation during the first year of college. Journal of College Student Development, 52, 543-559. doi: 10.1353/csd.2011.0062
McCabe, J. (2011). Doing multiculturalism: An interactionist analysis of the practices of a multicultural sorority. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 40, 521-549. doi: 10.1177/0891241611403588
McClure, S. M. (2006). Voluntary membership: Black Greek men on a predominantly white campus. The Journal of Higher Education, 77, 1036-1057.
Nancy, J., & Clift, S. (2014). Fraternity. Angelaki, Journal of Theoretical Humanities, 18, 119-123. doi: 10.1080/0969725X.2013.834669
Palwey, L. (2008). Cultural citizenship. Sociology Compass, 2, 594-608. doi:
The collegiate experience of Greek-letter organisations collegiate in the United States of America have marked a prominent arena where men’s cultural citizenship discourse are approximated and demonstrated. Literature that have emerged in the last decades points to the suggestion that the brotherhood cherished by fraternity men have produced an organisational space that not only sanctions, but promotes the prioritisation of privilege (Clark, 2012; Hughey, 2010; cf. Anderson, 2008), as well as the attainment …show more content…
In its origins, fraternities developed as secret societies that had primarily scholarly purposes (Torbenson, 2005) in which members could freely discuss controversial subjects, such as politics, that their faculties would otherwise deem inappropriate and be reprimanded of given the period of historical revolution strife (Lee, 1955). Although the first fraternities laid prominence on ethical development (Earley, 1995), familial bonding and camaraderie between members’ rooted in reciprocal trust and loyalty that is also shared with fraternities dominant in Northern American colleges in the present times (Case, Hesp, & Eberly, 2005; Yeung et al., 2006), the fraternities have been now predominantly utilised and recognised for its social features (Hesp & Brooks, 2009; McCabe, 2011). In Torbensons’ (2005, pp. 43) succinct words, “whereas literary societies once filled the intellectual vacuum of college life, Greek-letter fraternities filled the social vacuum.” With a prominent focus on socialising, fraternity mens’ experience of identity is perhaps one that remains intricately …show more content…
M. (2003). Black Greek 101: The culture, customs, and challenges of black fraternities and sororities. Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press.
Lee, A. M. (1955). Fraternities without brotherhood: A study of prejudice on the American campus. Boston: Beacon Press.
Marmaros, D., & Sacerdote, B. (2002). Peer and social networks in job search. European Economic Review, 46, 870-879. doi: 10.1.1.177.41
Martin, G. L., Hevel, M. S., Asel, A. H., & Pascarella, E. T. (2011). New evidence on the effects of fraternity and sorority affiliatation during the first year of college. Journal of College Student Development, 52, 543-559. doi: 10.1353/csd.2011.0062
McCabe, J. (2011). Doing multiculturalism: An interactionist analysis of the practices of a multicultural sorority. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 40, 521-549. doi: 10.1177/0891241611403588
McClure, S. M. (2006). Voluntary membership: Black Greek men on a predominantly white campus. The Journal of Higher Education, 77, 1036-1057.
Nancy, J., & Clift, S. (2014). Fraternity. Angelaki, Journal of Theoretical Humanities, 18, 119-123. doi: 10.1080/0969725X.2013.834669
Palwey, L. (2008). Cultural citizenship. Sociology Compass, 2, 594-608. doi: