Today's schedule is D-C-Lunch-A-B
C - Criminology 12 - Today we are going to the library to work on our next blog / journal entry. Below, you'll find a question on hypermasculinity, male socialization, and sexual assault. I will need you to answer that question and then find a news story about a sexual assault. You will need to try to explain the motivation and roots of the behaviour of the assaulter in the story.
Explain how sexual behaviour could be socialized in males. Do you think that males who commit sexual assault are "hypermasculine"? Why and where do men learn "hypermasculine" behaviour?
The factors that predispose men to commit sexual assault include evolutionary factors, male socialization, psychological abnormality, and social learning. Most criminologists believe that rape is not sexually motivated. The evolutionary and biological factors of males suggest that sexual assault may be instinctual and developed over the ages in an effort to perpetuate the species. This notion holds that men who are sexually aggressive will have a reproductive edge over their more passive peers. Conversely, the male socialization view argues that men are socialized to be the aggressors and expect to be sexually active with many women. Sexual insecurity, then, may then lead some men to commit sexual assault to bolster their self-image. Hypermasculine men typically have a callous sexual attitude and believe that violence is manly. Finally, another view is that men learn to commit sexual assaults as they learn any other behaviour.
A - Earth & Space Science 11 - Today we'll work on a relative dating exercise in partners. This will be our last work on Geologic Time and this puts us at the end of our first major unit in Earth and Space Science 11. We will have a unit final this Thursday (March 25th) so please review your first unit work before then. Our next unit will be on Plate Tectonics (volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and mountain building) which we'll start tomorrow and a reminder that this Friday, we'll be in the library for you to work on your major semester long project (you'll be introduced to it and can begin work on it then).
B - Social Studies 10 - Today we'll review the report prepared by Lord Durham along with the Act of Union (1841) and responsible government in 1848. You'll need to read through pages 20-22 in the Challenge of the West text and work on question 14 from page 32. To end the class we'll take a few notes down about the Durham Report and take some time to speculate on what it would be like if Durham's suggestions about anglicizing Lower Canada (Canada East / Quebec) were acted upon.
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