SOCI 315: Contemporary Gender Relations

SOCI 315-K01: Contemporary Gender Relations
(Spring 2021)

10:30 AM to 11:45 AM MW

Mason Korea (119 Songdomunhwa-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, Korea) G105

Section Information for Spring 2021

SOCI 315 - K01: Contemporary Gender Relations

In this course, we will examine the topic of gender, mainly using a sociological lens, but also using insights from other disciplines. Our study of gender will allow us to understand how social structure, social institutions and culture shape gender roles and the lives of people who practice these roles over time, while at the same time, how these gender roles shape culture, social institutions and social structure. We’ll talk about many different topics including the role of media in shaping gender, the intersection between gender and family, work, religion and politics, and the “inherent or constructed” debate about gender roles. 

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Considers the ways in which gender structures social life on both the micro level of individual experience and the macro level of social structure. Addresses contradiction between legal equality between the sexes and persistent workplace discrimination and sexual violence; how normative ideals of femininity and masculinity affect our bodies, identities and intimate relationships; how these ideals are circulated through the media, reproduced in social institutions, and articulated in different national, cultural and religious contexts. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Social/Behavioral Sciences
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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