Foul Play: Patriarchal Male Peer Support and Hockey-Related Violence Against Women
The 53rd Annual Sorokin Lecture is presented by Dr. Walter S. DeKeseredy (PhD)
Date: Thursday, Feb. 13
Time: 7 pm
Location: Arts Building Room 133, 9 Campus Dr., Saskatoon
Free and open to the public | Reception to follow the lecture
About this event
A talk by Dr. Walter S. DeKeseredy (PhD), West Virginia University
Why are elite male hockey leagues bastions for rape culture and violence against women? What conditions allow a culture of toxic masculinity to persist despite awakenings elsewhere in society? What is the path forward, and how can sociologists make officials, coaches, and athletes accountable? Drawing on over 40 years of rich qualitative and quantitative research, the objective of this lecture is to answer these questions. Special attention is devoted to examining the role of patriarchal male peer support, which is defined as attachments to male peers and the resources they provide, in encouraging and legitimating woman abuse in hockey-related contexts.
Walter S. DeKeseredy is Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence, and Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University. DeKeseredy has published 31 books, over 150 scientific journal articles and close to 130 scholarly book chapters on violence against women and other social problems. In 2008, the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma gave him the Linda Saltzman Memorial Intimate Partner Violence Researcher Award. He also jointly received the 2004 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology's (ASC) Division on Women and Crime and the 2007 inaugural UOIT Research Excellence Award. In 1995, he received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the ASC’s Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice (DCCSJ) and in 2008 the DCCSJ gave him the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, he received the Critical Criminal Justice Scholar Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' (ACJS) Section on Critical Criminal Justice and in 2015, he received the Career Achievement Award from the ASC's Division on Victimology (DOV). In 2017, he received the Impact Award from the ACJS’s section on Victimology and the Robert Jerin Book of the Year Award from the ASC’s Division on Victimology. In 2022, he was named an ASC Fellow, received the Praxis Award from the DCCSJ, and received the 2022 Robert Jerin Book Award from the ASC’s DOV. In 2023, he received the Ralph Weisheit Lifetime Achievement award from the ASC’s Division on Rural Criminology.
About the Sorokin Lecture Series
Hosted by the Department of Sociology, the Sorokin Lecture Series was established at the University of Saskatchewan in 1968 in honour of world-renowned sociologist Dr. Pitirim A. Sorokin (PhD).
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