Fall 2015

Spring 2016

Fall 2016

Spring 2017

Fall 2017

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This course explores the social construction of gender.  That is to say that gender is shaped and constructed in social contexts.  Hence, there is a considerable range of gender roles, identities, and expressions in our own society, and even more variation if we look across time and place.  In addition, examining gender from a sociological perspective means we will be looking at how gender is related to inequality. 

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We will ask, how do gendered behaviors and identities inform (and are informed by) larger social structures?  How do societies rank categories of people in a hierarchy based on gendered attributes?  How do social hierarchies determine which categories of people have greater access to resources, status, power, and privilege?