“Jar Oppening” Men and Women Who “Can Use Their Brains”: Male University Stutents Masculinity Negotiations

In this research we established a theoretical framework that brings together social psychological and sociological approaches to understand masculinity. We aimed to synthesize discursive psychology, social identity theory, self-categorization theory and hegemonic masculinity approach to analyze the masculinity phenomenon. Based on this theoretical framework, we conducted three focus group interviews with men. A total of 18 undergraduate students participated in the research. After transcribing the entire focus group interviews, we analyzed the data using thematic analysis and discourse analysis techniques. We observed that the topics of masculinity as found and discussed previously in the literature were put forward by our participants in their different discourses. The complementary theoretical framework we have put together to approach masculinity allowed us to describe the empirical findings we have obtained. In other words, we made sense of men's interpretation of masculinity and their practice of putting it into various discursive strategies