Course Outline – SOC 273: Sociology of Gender
Core area 8: Develop a comparative perspective and understanding of one’s place in a global
context.
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, culture,
Discussions on the social construction of
and the media
knowledge, on media influences, and the 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 women’s
and the economy 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 issues
families
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 reproduction health and social problems. Perspectives on the
politics of reproduction including discussions on
international adoption (8%)
Women and
Sociological perspectives on religion. Images of
religion
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
education, and
(including discussions of global disparities in girls’
science
access to education). Gender gaps in relationship
SLO
8.5
8.2
8.2
8.2, 8.4
8.4, 8.5
8.1, 8.2,
8.3
8.4
8.2, 8.3,
8.5
8.3, 8.4
8.1, 8.3,
8.5
Women, power,
and politics
Frameworks of
feminism
to the status of women in science. (8%)
Defining power. Women and the state, the law,
the military, the government. Discussions of
various women’s movements (including discussion
of women's activism across the world) (8%)
Exploration of various theoretical framework
within feminism such as liberal feminism, radical
feminism, multiracial feminism, postmodern
feminism, queer theory or transnational feminism
(10%)
8.1, 8.4,
8.5
8.5