Title

Exploring Potential Consequences Of Job Involvement Among Jail Staff

Keywords

health; hegemonic masculinity; media; sports; violence

Abstract

American football has long been central to the construction of masculinity in the United States. Of the multiple masculine scripts promoting professional players' hegemonic masculine status, sacrificing one's body for the sake of sporting glory is a key tenet. Sport journalists have traditionally used their media platform to reify this social script, an act which simultaneously promotes their own masculine capital. However, this article investigates a crack in this hegemonic system. Through a media analysis of the reporting on Aaron Rodgers' self-withdrawal (after hitting his head) from an important National Football League (NFL) game, we argue that increasing cultural awareness as to the devastating effects of concussions, in the form of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, combined with a softening of American masculinity is beginning to permit some prominent players to distance themselves from the self-sacrifice component of sporting masculinity. Concerning concussions, we conclude major sport media are beginning to support the notion of health over a masculine warrior narrative. © The Author(s) 2012.

Publication Date

6-1-2012

Publication Title

Criminal Justice Policy Review

Volume

23

Issue

2

Number of Pages

231-253

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/0887403411398304

Socpus ID

84861955205 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84861955205

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