The Socker Field and Honor Culture

Ryan brown thinks there's a connection between what happened on that socker field and what happened to him and his friends when they were teenagers. Both the socker player and the tenager were following the gendered scripts of what ryan calls an honor culture. In each one of these cases, therethere was an element of defensive reputation driving people's behaviours. David would not back down, even as he was risking his life and the lives of his friends. Zinedine zidan would not back down when he felt his family was insulted. And furthermore, his inability to back down when confronted by me was very typical of people who are driven by honor related beliefs and values....