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What is sociology?

  • Sociology is the scientific study of human societies and social behavior. It examines how people interact, form groups, and create cultures, looking at both small-scale interactions and large-scale social structures.

   

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Bullet Points of the prescribed articles with the course Youth and Sexuality 22/23 - UU

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Article Summary of Addressing Gender Socialization and Masculinity Norms Among Adolescent Boys: Policy and Programmatic Implications - Amin et al. - 2018

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Global health and development policies focus mostly on teenage girls, as gender inequalities make them more disadvantaged and vulnerable. However, there are convincing reasons to take a closer look at adolescent boys. Their transition from childhood to adolescence is associated with several health problems and risk factors that influence their health during their whole life (e.g. injuries, violence, suicide, aids, alcohol, drugs, tobacco). Males are also less likely to seek help than

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Article Summary of He is a stud, she is a slut! A meta-analysis on the continued existence of sexual double standards - Endendijk et al. - 2020

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What is sexual double standards (SDS)?

Men and women are usually held to distinct standards of appropriate (sexual) behavior. For example, men are socially punished for behaving passively or modestly and women for behaving dominantly or directly. Receiving backlash for breaching social standards can have a bad influence on society and individuals.

Sexual double standards (SDS) refer to the different sexual behaviors that are valued for and expected of women and men. Traditionally, males are expected to be

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Article summary with The complexities of sexual consent among college students: a conceptual and empirical review by Muehlenhard a.o. - 2016

Media coverage regarding sexual assault among college students puts pressure on universities to improve their sexual consent policies. The headlines express the controversy that surrounds sexual assault in college. American and Canadian universities are pressured to investigate and address the complaints of students. Both the accused and complaining student usually acknowledge the occurrence of sexual contact, but disagree about it being consensual. While most awareness and educational campaigns emphasize how important getting sexual consent is, they do not clarify what is considered consent.

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Article Summary of A bio-ecological theory of sexual harassment of girls: research synthesis and proposed model- Brown et al. - 2020

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Many American teenage girls have experienced sexual harassment and nearly a quarter of female college students have been the victim of sexual assault. Despite the negative and long-term consequences of these experiences on their emotional, physical and mental health, perpetrating sexual assault and harassment is usually seen as normative. Very few perpetrators receive punishment. Cases are rarely tried and merely 5% of them result in a conviction.

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Article Summary of Women’s sexual desire. Challenging narratives of ‘dysfunction’ - Graham et al. - 2017

The altered classification of sexual dysfunction of women in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and the approval by the FDA of the first drug to treat low sexual desire in females have led to a debate among researchers and clinicians.

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How was female sexual dysfunction originally classified?

Psychosexual dysfunction was first mentioned in the DSM published in 1980. Previous versions did not cover sexual disorders. One of the included psychosexual dysfunctions was inhibited sexual desire, which was based on the Human Sexual Response Cycle (HSRC):

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Article Summary of A motivation model of sex addiction – Relevance to the controversy over the concept - Toates - 2022

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Sex addiction was first formulated in the 1980’s and is often compared with drug addiction. While the notion is widely accepted, not everyone is fully convinced by it.

This study presents a model of sexual addiction, which involves a combination of models based upon the dual-control organisation of behavior and brain, and the incentive motivation theory. Two criteria suggest addiction:

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Article Summary of The storyscapes of teenage pregnancy. On morality, embodiment, and narrative agency - Cense & Ganzevoort - 2019

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Pregnant teenagers tell different stories about their experience. Their stories are influenced by normative discourses. How the meaning of teenage pregnancy is constructed depends on stigma and social norms, but the embodiment of pregnancy also plays a significant role.

Teenage pregnancies are associated with poverty and considered a risk for sexual active girls. American,

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Article Summary of Sexualizing media use and self objectification - Karsay et al. - 2017

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What is sexualization?

In terms of today´s mainstream media, sexualization refers to the type of presentation, for example by television, videogames and social networking sites, that is marked by an emphasis on sexual appearance, physical

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Article Summary of Intersectionality: From theory to practice - Al-Faham et al. - 2019

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What is intersectionality?

Intersectionality refers to how a person´s various social and political identities combine (intersect) to create different modes of discrimination and privilege. It involves many factors of advantage and disadvantage, such as gender, sex, ethnicity, sexuality, religion and physical appearance.

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