ABSTRACT
This chapter relates deeply to the idea that the locker room is a problematic space where young male bullying is established and practiced. By taking the lead of social constructionists including Cooley and post-structuralists including Foucault, Pringle argues that social power is closely linked to a group's access to the production and dissemination of knowledge. What goes on in locker room space is as much, about the power to determine and police what it means to be a dominant young boy, as it is about ritually changing one's clothes to prepare for a physical education class. The reality of their masculinity is pejoratively defined and reflected within the space by others, and not by them. Individuals who control processes of ontological framing in a society those who can act as socially legitimate 'mirrors' for others are hegemonic in contemporary life.
