SOAN 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sex Assignment, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2040
• Professor: D Rose

Document Summary

Sociologists employ a wide variety of quantitative and qualitative methods to gather the information that informs their empirical claims. They use methods to ensure that data is gathered properly, with the aim to explain and extend one"s knowledge. Our world is complex and needs more than one form of data gathering. The study of gender grew out of the second wave of the women"s movement. This movement critiqued academic disciplines that ignored women. In sociology, women were rarely the subjects of research and activities that were dominated by women. There was a male bias in sociology studies. Gender became a more used term in sociology, but there was still a divide and more attention was aimed at the factors that differed us from men. Recent conceptual developments: the sociology of women has given way to the sociology of gender, reflecting in literature relating male activities to masculinity.