SOC 028 Lecture Notes - Social Constructionism, Social Inequality, Real Sex

• School: UC Riverside
• Department: Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies
• Course: SOC 028
• Professor: Guenther

Document Summary

An academic discipline that sees to systematically study the structures of human social life, groups, and societies. Investigate the impacts, social meanings of which gender have an individual and collective experience. Consider difference in how societies understand, enact and enforce gender, and to what effect. Work to reduce gender inequalities: gender is to people as water is to fish. We take gender for granted as normal, natural, and relatively consistent: thinking sociologically. Think ourselves away from the familiar routines of our daily lives to look at them. Social structure informs and constrains individual acts. See the societal patterns that influence the individual as well as groups: levels of analysis in sociology: Maro large scale social system the economic or political system. Meso institutions that mediate between the macro and micro. Micro everyday behavior and face-to-face interaction: to think sociologically about gender, we will. Consider different types gender systems and arrangements. We look for physical and social cues.