How "Boy Culture" Has Created a Crisis of Human Connection

Dr. Niobe Way says "Boy Culture" has created a crisis of connection, resulting in soaring rates of depression, anxiety, loneliness, suicide, and mass violence.

For nearly 40 years, NYU developmental psychologist Dr. Niobe Way has conducted groundbreaking research with teenagers, particularly boys and young men from diverse backgrounds. Her work focuses on social and emotional development and how cultural ideologies shape child development. She’s a recognized expert regarding friendships, loneliness, teenagers, gender stereotypes, masculinity, and the roots of violence. She joins us to discuss her book, “Rebels with a Cause: Reimaging Boys, Ourselves, and Our Cultures.”

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Book Description (From Amazon Listing)

From NYU professor of developmental psychology Niobe Way,
an in-depth exploration about what boys and young men teach us about themselves, us, and the toxic culture we have created, one in which we value money over people, toys over human connection, and academic achievement over kindness. Based on her longitudinal and mixed-method research over thirty-five years, Rebels with a Cause is a true call to action to change the culture so that we stop the vicious cycle of violence and blame.

Dr. Niobe Way has spent her career researching social and emotional development and finds that boys and young men desperately want and need the same thing as everyone else: close friendships. Yet they and we grow up in a stereotyped “boy” culture, one that devalues and mocks those relationships, rather than recognizing that they’re necessary for human survival.

In Rebels with a Cause, Way takes her message one step beyond her previous book, Deep Secrets, which was the inspiration for an Oscar-nominated film Close, to reveal how these “rebels,” as she calls the boys and young men in her research and in her classrooms, teach us about their and our crisis of connection, evidence of which is visible in our soaring rates of depression, anxiety, loneliness, suicide, and mass violence. They also teach us about the solutions to the crisis, which is to care, to listen with curiosity, and to take individual and collective responsibility for the damage we have done to them, to ourselves, and to the world around us.

Way provides us not only with data-driven insight into the roots and consequences of this crisis of connection, but also offers us concrete and empirically tested strategies for creating a culture that better aligns with our human nature and our human needs. Her book reminds us that “it’s not the rebels who cause the troubles of the world, it’s the troubles that cause the rebels.” The time to listen to and act on what young rebels have been telling us for almost a century is now.
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Chapters:
00:00 Book and Niobe Way Introduction
01:07 Book Inspired by Impact of Male Friendships
06:38 How Many Gender Stereotypes are Cultural Not Biological
10:19 How "Boy Culture" Influences Culture at Large
15:00 The Solution to the Problems Created by "Boy Culture"
22:05 How We Can Change Our Toxic Culture
25:07 Closing Comments
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