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Apr 29, 2024
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SOC 5700 - Sociology of Gender
This course explores the social and cultural construction of gender as a fundamental basis of social relations and institutions and the micro and macro narratives we tell about those interpersonal relations and institutions. Focus includes sociological theories of gender, and an examination of gender in areas such as sexuality, identity, the body, education, marriage, family, violence, health, paid and unpaid work, popular culture, politics, and the history of the discipline itself.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will articulate why sociologists focus on social theories and explanations of gender rather than biological, psychological or economic theories and explanations.
- Students will understand gender as a system of power and inequality.
- Students will understand how gender is constructed and performed.
- Students will understand how social institutions and organizations are gendered and gendering, and the links between social institutions and everyday practices in maintaining gender ideologies and gender inequality.
- Students will understand the connections between individuals, social structure, and society, particularly as these connections apply to maintaining and changing the gender order.
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