Covert Hegemonic Masculinities and other Androcracies

In: MCS: Masculinities & Social Change, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 162-184

Abstract

The objective of this essay is to document how hegemonic masculinity is socially reproduced through almost imperceptible processes of androcracy, and concomitantly, to demonstrate how androcracy strategically influences the professional development of Mexico's social capital, since meritocracy from androcracy is a simulation game of female promotion. All these androcratic processes exclude men and women of the high academic profile from high and mid-high positions, thus originating alterations in daily politics. To document this androcratic process, the text is divided into three sections: the first part presents the state of the art of masculinity; in the next section, using qualitative techniques and participant observation methods, three examples of androcracy are described, in different geographical and socio-political scales: the international example analyzes the case of the NXIVM sect, the national example analyzes the case of the National System of Researchers of Mexico, and the local example analyzes the case of the Universidad Veracruzana. The most relevant results, which indicate that psychological control continues to be an androcratic mechanism used to try to manipulate women with a high academic profile.