The Problem of Violence in the Context of Gender Methodology: Socio-philosophical Analysis

Abstract

In this article, the concept of hegemonic masculinity of Australian sociologist Raewyn Connell is considered as a theoretical and methodological basis for under­standing violence as a social phenomenon. Violence is seen as a stabilizing mecha­nism of the world gender order, designed to support the normative canon of he­gemonic masculinity in all spheres of society. This study is designed to form a cautious attitude to the operation of gender terms and schemes in explicating the basic prerequisites of the problem of violence. The gendered nature of violence does not mean that all violence in the world is committed by men against women. Gender methodology opens up a more complex, moving, historical scheme for suppressing both men and women from the normative canon of hegemonic mas­culinity. This idealized and ideologized standard functions in culture as a kind of non-alternative ethical imperative that sets clear foundations for the social structure as a whole and stabilizes the social system through a variety of practices of vio­lence. The article concludes that the reduction in the scale of violence in society is closely related to the weakening of the influence of the traditional gender scheme