Dec 26, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22 [Archived Catalog]

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SOC 4700 - 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: 9 Hours in SOC including 1000
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Articulate why sociologists focus on social theories and explanations of gender rather than biological, psychological or economic theories and explanations.
  • Understand gender as a system of power and inequality.
  • Understand how gender is constructed and performed.
  • 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.
  • 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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