Sex, Gender, and Society

SOCIOL 218

This courses explores how society prescribes gendered positions to people along the biological sex continuum and how gendered assumptions embed inequalities in social institutions.  The courses examines how gender interacts with race, ethnicity, class, age and sexuality to influence individual lives, interpersonal interactions, and social structures.

Nature and acquisition of sex roles. Cross-cultural variations. Developing nature of sex roles in American society.
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Curriculum Codes
  • CCI
  • SS
Typically Offered
Fall and/or Spring