Revised Course Schedule – Number 2

Sociology 327

Spring 2007

March 1		Cancelled due to snow
March 6	Family -- Socialization	Text: Chapter 6, pp 117-127; 128-133 RA: Raag “Influences of Social Expectations of Gender, Gender Stereotypes, and Situational Constraints on Children’s Toy Choices.” Sex Roles 41:80-831. RA: Bem “Gender Schema Theory and its Implications for Child development: Raising Gender-Aschematic Children in a Gender-Schematic Society.”
March 8	Marriage/Division of Household Labor	Text: Chapter 6, pp 127-128; 133-139 RA: Hackstaff “A Quest for Relational Equality in Marriage” Reader: Coltrane “Household Labor and the Routine Production of Gender”
SPRING BREAK March 12 – March 16
March 20	Work and Family		Text: Chapter 6, pp 140-158 RA: Budig and England “The Wage Penalty for Motherhood” Reader: Rubin “The Transformation of Family Life”
March 22	Workplace		Text: Chapter 8, pp 180-209 Reader: Reskin “Bringing the Men Back In: Sex Differentiation and the Devaluation of Women’s Work”
March 27	Explanations for Workplace Inequality		Reader: Williams “The Glass Elevator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the Female Professions” RA: Ridgeway “The Persistence of Gender Inequality in Employment Settings” RA: Ridgeway and Diekema “Are Gender Differences Status Differences?
March 29			Exam 2
Gendered Interactions
April 3	Language			RA: Adams and Ware “Sexism and the English Language: The Linguistic Implications of Being a Woman” RA: Nilsen “Sexism in English: A 1990s Update”
April 5	Communication			RA: Steinem “Men and Women Talking” RA: Howard et al. “Sex, Power, and Influence Tactics in Intimate Relationships.”

April 10	Friendship/Intimacy	Text: Chapter 9, pp 213-225 Reader: Cancian “The Feminization of Love” Reader: Swain “Covert Intimacy: Closeness in Men’s Friendships” RA: Lee “Do Girls Change More Than Boys? Gender Differences and Similarities in the Impact of New Relationships on Identities and Behaviors”
April 12	Friendship/Intimacy	Text: Chapter 9, pp 225-230 Reader: Savin-Williams “Dating and Romantic Relationships Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youths” RA: Manning, et al. “Hooking Up: The Relationship Contexts of ‘non-Relationship Sex”
April 17	Gendered Body	Text: Chapter 10, pp 231-235; 238-263 Reader: Bordo “The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity” RA: Evans et al. “Do Racial Minorities Respond in the Same Way to Mainstream Beauty Standards? Social Comparison Processes in Asian, Black, and White Women.”
April 19	Transgendered	Text: Chapter 10, pp 235-238 RA: Kessler, Suzanne J. “The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants” RA: Wright “To Be Poor and Transgender”
April 24	Violence and Culture	Text: Chapter 11, pp 264-278 Reader: Gilligan “Culture, Gender, and Violence: We are Not Women” RA: Hollander “Vulnerability and Dangerousness: The Construction of Gender Through Conversations about Violence”
April 26	Marital/Intimate Violence	Chapter 11, pp 278-288 Reader: Dobash et al. “The Myth of Sexual Symmetry in Marital Violence.” RA: Miller et al. “Domestic Violence in Lesbian Relationships”
	FINAL EXAM	Friday, May 4, Noon – 2p (this date and time are tentative)