Sociological theory of diffusion. The sociological theory of diffusion is the study of the diffusion of innovations throughout social groups and organizations. The theory uses a case study of the growth of business computing to explain different mechanisms of diffusion.
âMasculinityâ refers to the behaviors, social roles, and relations of men within a given society as well as the meanings attributed to them. The term masculinity stresses gender, unlike male, which stresses biological sex. Thus studies of masculinities need not be confined to biological males. Masculinity studies is a feminist-inspired, interdisciplinary field that emerged in the last few decades of the 20th century as a topic of study. It deals with the diversity of identities, behaviors, and meanings that occupy the label masculine and does not assume that they are universal.
However, what we really need, central to all of those dimensions, is a public conversation about hegemonic masculinity in the United States, particularly the historical and social relationship betweenideals of white manhood, agency and guns. Masculinity does not have to be misogynistic. It doesn't have to be based on white supremacy. It doesn't have to cultivate the denial of men's emotional pain. Yesterday's shooter allegedly chose to either kill or injure people on the basis of religion, so, some might say, this has nothing to do with cultural ideas about power, gender and race.