Discourses of masculinity and everyday practices of the others

This study has emerged as a result of a study on how sociological discourses of masculinity are built in everyday life practices. First of all, theoretical approaches on gender studies are examined. Biological and cultural approaches in the formation of everyday behavior codes, which are the main problems of gender studies, are discussed. As a consequence an investigation of how masculinity studies emerged from sociology and gender debates are conducted. Masculinity studies in Turkey is a relatively new sociological study area. In the fact that the phenomenological research section of this study, which discusses how the masculinity discourse is produced as a hegemony in the follow-up of theoretical debates, focuses on how the different discourses of masculinity appeared outside the mainstream and within the mainstream. Normative expectations, the application of cultural codes to daily life and the discursive analysis of the mainstream masculinity have been examined through the lens of everyday practices. Sociological identities were analyzed through in-depth interviews. Those who act according to mainstream masculinity roles and those who do not act have shown similarities and differences. The roles of masculinity, the formation of different subcultures, identity building and the prevalence of masculinity are the prominent sociological findings of this research. Key words: Sociology of Gender, Sociology of Masculinity, Sociology of Everyday Life, Habitus, Hegemony, Discourse Analysis