SOSC 1185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intersectionality, List Of Universities In Canada, Unit

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1185
• Professor: Lee Wiggins

Document Summary

Introduction to the course: main course themes and objectives: Themes: our study of women in canadian society will take a gender based analysis (gba) Why is this course taking this approach? (hint: look at the welcome message , A few words about this course : gender is socially & historically constructed. 2: gender is a differentiated category concept of intersectionality. An interesting approach to defining key concepts is to come up with your own initial definition, and then come up with a definition based on the lecture and/or readings compare these. Lecture definition: gender roles are not static & relations between the sexes are not always the same. Talking about gender means talking about power (both formal and informal), privilege, authority & control. Note that you should return to this in later weeks as we discuss this in more detail.