Dr Mark McCormack is a sociologist interested in understanding the effects of decreasing homophobia in Western cultures. Empirically documenting the erosion of homophobia in educational and sporting settings, as well as in the wider culture, his research explores how this has resulted in an expansion of gendered behaviours for male youth and documents the improvement in life experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people.He has a personal blog, Men 2.0, at Psychology Today. It examines the changing nature of masculinity in the 21st century, focusing on how new ways of being a man are emerging in contemporary Western cultures. I also blog for Oxford University Press, OpenDemocracy and GoodMenProject.
His latest book The Declin
Dr Mark McCormack is a sociologist interested in understanding the effects of decreasing homophobia in Western cultures. Empirically documenting the erosion of homophobia in educational and sporting settings, as well as in the wider culture, his research explores how this has resulted in an expansion of gendered behaviours for male youth and documents the improvement in life experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people.He has a personal blog, Men 2.0, at Psychology Today. It examines the changing nature of masculinity in the 21st century, focusing on how new ways of being a man are emerging in contemporary Western cultures. I also blog for Oxford University Press, OpenDemocracy and GoodMenProject.
His latest book The Declining Significance of Homophobia has received considerable media attention, being reported in The Observer and The Economist, as well as being reviewed in The Independent and THE.
He has extensive media experience, and have spoken about his research on radio shows including The Surgery on BBC Radio 1, Woman’s Hour and Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4, Nightwaves on BBC Radio 3, The World Service, and Q with Jian Ghomeshi on CBC Radio 1. He has also appeared on HuffPost Live and my research has been featured in print media including The Economist, The Sunday Times, The Observer, and New Internationalist.
Michael McCormack's profile at Durham University.
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