Transiting from Childhood to Adolescence as a Young
Male
An
Investigation of the Cultural Construction of Masculinity
The pilot project is a developmental
study of the emergence of male subjectivities in 10-, 12-, and 15-year olds in
three different cultures. It intersects the processes of male and adolescent
identity formation and targets the discursive means as the primary tools by
which the identities are constructed. Data have been collected from 10-, 12-, and
15-year old males (cross-sectionally AND longitudinally) in
two different
countries: Brazil and USA <with the aim to collect similar
data in Japan>
four different
discourse sites:
four different
discourse topics:
A systematic analysis of the language
choices in the discourse (subject) positions across
the different age
groups
the different
discourse sites
the different
discourse topics
the different nation
states
will open the space for novel insights
into the identity transformations - answered from the perspective of
participants.
For further information
use the following links:
Pilot Project Participants:
Fall 2000 + Spring 2001: Gabe
Trionfi, Tamir Rotman, Melissa Hughes, Neill
Korobov (graduate RAs)
Janhavi Borawake, Lauren Wolman (undergraduate RAs)
Fall 2002 + Spring
2003: Neill
Korobov, Mariana Barcinski, Caitlin Morey, Jacob Farwell, Steven Power
Picture of
PROJECT GROUP
February
2001
Spree Day-Poster-Presentations by Clark Undergraduates
Papers and Presentations Resulting from the Pilot Data