SOC 419 - Gender and Society

3 Credit(s)

The aim of the course is for students to become familiar with the continuing differences and inequalities between women and men in the contemporary United States, and to begin to explain why and how they occur through a sociological lens. Understanding gender as it relates to other social identities (for example, race, class and sexuality) is an important organizing framework of the course. Students will learn about the gendered arrangements in a variety of social contexts such as education, the media, work and the economy, and the family.