Masculine Identity: How It Affects Street Racing and Aggressive Behaviour in Young Motorcyclists

Youth and Street Racing

In terms of its perceived threat to society, street racing seems to have fallen somewhere between regular traffic offences and car theft. Yet it has little in common with either. So far as I am aware, street racing has not been analysed by previous writers. Thus, not surprisingly, most theories have little to offer such an analysis. The key argument made in this article is that the norms of str...

Alcohol consumption and masculine identity among young men

Concern about excessive alcohol consumption among young men demands an understanding of why some young men drink excessively while others do not. The aim of this study was to identify how young men’s patterns of alcohol consumption are related to their beliefs about masculinity, and the importance of drinking to their masculine identities. Thirty-one individual interviews and five group discuss...

Identity: How to name it, How to find it

The main objective of this work is to exploit the relationship between the information findability problem and a subject-based organization of information. Identification of a subject is involved when one wants to say something about that subject or when he or she tries to comprehend what was said by others about it. An example of this type of duality can be seen in the information world where ...

How Hiring Affects IT Performance

The development of aggressive behaviour in children and young people