Modernizing Men as Subjects of Law, Culture and Gender: An Ethnographic Point in the Field of Masculinities

Abstract

This paper contributes to the reflection on the relationship between law, culture and gender based on the "ethnographic moment" category, to think about the implementation of a policy of prevention of domestic violence in Bogota. It presents a contrast between the political hypotheses of cultural transformation of masculinity and the positioned discourse of youth, as subjects of politics. Attention is drawn to how methodological individualism, sociological apperception, in the words of Dumont, configures a morality that seeks the objectification of power in the individual, disregarding the way in which authority is formed on the interdependence of social relations. Attention is also drawn to the importance of reflexivity in the production of anthropological knowledge, reviewing the modern hypotheses that determine our observation of social relations.