GED0085

GENDER AND SOCIETY

• At the end of the course, students are expected to:
• 1. Evaluate the three sociological frameworks of gender
and society
• 2. Identify the underlying sociological varying definitions
of gender and society

GENDER AND SOCIETY

• What is sociology and why is it important and beneficial?
What is the difference between sociology and psychology?
• Making the familiar strange; questioning what is often
presumed to be the natural order of things.
• I.e.: What is something that most Americans do that you
find strange? What is a gender norm here in America that
newcomers may find strange?
• Sociology: scientific study of social interactions, social
organization, and the connection between individuals and
society-Rigorous and systematic-Powerful scientific tool

• Why is sociology considered a soft science?

• The Sociological Imagination
• C. Wright Mills
• The sociological imagination helps us to understand how
the social structure affects our lives and the lives of others
• Private troubles VS. Public issues
• What determines an individuals behavior?
• Agency-making individual choices based on free-will
• Structure (sociological)-cultural and structural influences
operate in the decision making process
• How society is organized
• Society is patterned
• All societies are structured around relatively stable patterns
that establish how social interaction will be carried out…
• Status-A category or position a person occupies that is a
significant determinant in how one is defined and treated
• Status set
• Achieved vs ascribed statuses
• Low prestige vs high prestige statuses and social stratification
• Roles and norms
• How does all this relate to gender?
• Functionalism
• Instrumental vs expressive roles
• Conflict
• Society is characterized by competition and dominance of
some groups over others
• Symbolic interactionism
• We shape our own reality through interaction and
experience
• We “do” gender and difference
• Dramaturgy
• Super bowl Sunday?
• Feminist theories explain the social, economic, and political
position of women and men in society. Focus is on gender
issues
• Maintain that (primarily) women suffer injustice because of
their sex/gender.
• Seeks to free women (and men) from traditionally
oppressive/limiting expectations and constraints.
• Looks at the complex intersection between one’s gender and
other socially constructed categories of difference
• Intersectionality
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