Course Outline – SOC 273: Sociology of Gender
Core area 5: History and the social and behavioral sciences
Topic
Description
Studying Women Why Sociology of gender? The Sociological
imagination and the use of a sociological
framework for thinking about women.
Definitions (feminism, gender, race, class, etc)
(8%)
The social
Nature and nurture and cultural differences of
construction of gender, socialization and perspectives on
gender
gender identity(10%)
Gender,
Discussions on the social construction of
culture, and the knowledge, on media influences, and the
media
formation of various gender ideologies
nationally and globally (including the way
Western female body images impact women
in the world) (8%)
Sexuality and
Sexuality and intimate relationships, the social
Gender
construction of sexuality, linking gender, race,
sexuality, and power nationally and globally
(including discussion on sex work in the U.S.
and oversee) (8%)
Gender, work,
Exploration of various perspectives on
and the economy women’s work, paid and unpaid. Looking at
the effect of global economy on immigrant
women workers, their transnational families,
and female service work oversee. (8%)
Gender and
Feminist perspectives on families. Various
families
issues related to contemporary families,
including perspective on domestic work by
women of color and immigrant women. (8%)
Women, health, Social construction of health. Linking gender,
and
health and social problems. Perspectives on
reproduction
the politics of reproduction including
discussions on international adoption (8%)
Women and
Sociological perspectives on religion. Images
religion
of women in religion using both national and
global perspectives (including controversial
issues of the headscarf) (8%)
Women, crime, Sociological perspectives on crime and deviance.
and deviance
Linking gender and crime by looking at criminals
and victims, as well as criminal justice systems in
U.S. and outside the U.S. (8%)
Gender,
Looking at women’s past and access to
education, and education (including discussions of global
science
disparities in girls’ access to education).
SLO
5.1, 5.2
5.1, 5.2,
5.4
5.1, 5.2,
5.4
5.1, 5.2, 4
5.1, 5.2,
5.3, 5.4
5.1, 5.2,
5.4, 5.5
5.1, 5.2,
5.4
5.1, 5.2,
5.4
5.1, 5.2,
5.4
1, 3, 5
Gender gaps in relationship to the status of
women in science. (8%)
Women, power, Defining power. Women and the state, the
and politics
law, the military, the government. Discussions
of various women’s movements (including
discussion of women's activism across the
world) (8%)
Frameworks of Exploration of various theoretical framework
feminism
within feminism such as liberal feminism,
radical feminism, multiracial feminism,
postmodern feminism, queer theory or
transnational feminism (10%)
5.1, 5.2,
5.3, 5.5
5.1, 5.2,
5.3, 5.5