In sociology, homosociality means same-sex relationships that are not of a romantic or sexual nature, such as friendship, mentorship, or others. Researchers who use the concept mainly do so to explain how men uphold men's dominance in society.[1]
Homosocial was popularized by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in her discussion of male homosocial desire.[2] Sedgwick used the term to distinguish from homosexual and to connote a form of male bonding often accompanied by fear or hatred of homosexuality.[3] Jean Lipman-Blumen had earlier (1976) defined homosociality as a preference for members of one's own sex – a social rather than a sexual preference.[4]
The opposite of homosocial is heterosocial, describing non-sexual relations with the opposite sex.
^Hammarén, Nils; Johansson, Thomas (1 January 2014). "Homosociality: In Between Power and Intimacy". SAGE Open. 4 (1): 2158244013518057. doi:10.1177/2158244013518057. ISSN 2158-2440. In the literature, this concept is mainly used as a tool to understand and dissect male friendships and men's collective attempts to uphold and maintain power and hegemony....The overall picture from the research, however, promotes the notion that homosociality clearly is a part and extension of hegemony, thus serving to always reconstruct and safeguard male interests and power.
^J. Childers/G. Hentzi eds., The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (New York 1995) p. 138
^Yaeger, Patricia S. (December 1985). "Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire" (PDF). MLN. 100 (5): 1139–1144. doi:10.2307/2905456. JSTOR 2905456.
of the working of homosociality in the context of India. There is further controversy regarding the relationship between homosociality and homosexuality:...
Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible" (1999) and Thomas Waugh's Homosociality in the Classical American Stag Film: Off-Screen, On-screen (2001). Before...
ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-10-04. Creekmur, Corey K. "Homoeroticism and Homosociality." Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in...
of a romantic and sexual nature. The opposite of heterosociality is homosociality. At an institutional level, the spread of heterosociality, epitomized...
as bishōnen; diminished female characters; narratives that emphasize homosociality and de-emphasize socio-cultural homophobia; and depictions of rape....
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culture, identifies "a return to hegemonic masculine values of male homosociality". Other writers observed that social constraints simply meant that "it...
of the relationship has been one of platonic love and an example of homosociality. Some scholars and writers—late Middle Ages and onwards—have emphasized...
relationship between two or more men. It is an exceptionally tight, affectional, homosocial male bonding relationship exceeding that of usual friendship, and is distinguished...
instruments. According to Schaap and Berkers, "playing in a band is a male homosocial activity, that is, learning to play in a band is a peer-based ... experience...
the 1980s. Gershon Legman saw the act/badge not only as functioning a homosocial tie, but also as reflecting a deep and primitive belief in the lifegiving...
Quarterly. 6 (1): 79–81. JSTOR 25486740. Davison, Neil R. (1994). "Joyce's homosocial reckoning: Italo Svevo, aesthetics, and A Portrait of the Artist as a...
Indians, inter-caste marriage, and homosexuality through innuendo and homosocial bonding. It won two National Film Awards, eight Filmfare Awards, thirteen...
and mythology, have been read by Jonathan Ned Katz as revelatory of a homosocial or even homosexual relationship. Biographer Gregory D. Massey amongst...
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in heterogeneity. In line with this view, Warren Rosenberg argues the homosocial "Paradise of Bachelors" is "blind to what is real and painful in the world...
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Retrieved December 23, 2008. Radavich, David. "Man among Men: David Mamet's Homosocial Order". American Drama 1:1 (Fall 1991): 46–60. Radavich, David. "Rabe...
the lines between male homosociality and homosexuality, presumed knowledge of premodern artistic portrayals of female homosociality and homosexuality being...
Journal of Film and Video. 45:2-3 (Summer-Fall 1993). Waugh, Thomas. "Homosociality in the Classical American Stag Film: Off-Screen, On-Screen." Porn Studies...
sequestered with one another, and men were segregated likewise. In this homosocial environment, erotic and sexual relationships between males were common...
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