FSS:SOCb3005 deviation,normality and gender - Course Information

SOCb3005 Deviation, normality and gender

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person.

Teacher(s)

doc. PhDr. Kateřina Nedbálková, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Kateřina Nedbálková, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Soňa Enenkelová
Supplier department: Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies

Timetable

Mon 16:00–17:40 P22

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 25/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40

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Course objectives

The course deepens and broadens the understanding and analytical use of gender as a cathegory relevant for everyday life. The main goal of the course is to introduce gender as a relevant category, and one of the key criteria of social stratification. Gender plays a central role in distribution of social status both in vertical structure and in its substructures. We revise relevant theories at the beginning of the term and then we analyse particular social institutions and themes relevant to the gender structure of society, re/production, the issue of power of the social gender order and mechanisms that reproduce and challenge it.

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes: students will learn to apply theoretical concepts to empirical praxis in the field of studies on gendered social institutions, they will learn to interpret and compare the machanisms of reproduction of the gender order. They will improve their writing skills and practice review of colleagues semminar filedwork reports.

Syllabus

• We revise relevant theories at the beginning of the term and then we analyse particular social institutions and themes relevant to the gender structure of society, re/production, the issue of power of the social gender order and mechanisms that reproduce and challenge it. The themes include the following topics from the gendered structure: Female identity btw. sexuality and motherhood: gender and private sphere (Finzi, Badinter); private and public sphere and gendered organizations (Acker, Bourdieu); social stratification and gender (Stacey, Lockwood); the powerless and powerfull (Badinter, Sokolova, Elshtein); gendered bodies (Connell)and social structure without gender? (Lorber, Mac an Ghaill)

Literature

• Náhradní obsah: Acker, Joan, Hierarchies, jobs, bodies, A theory of gendered organisations, in: The Social Construction of Gender. SAGE 1991.
• Náhradní obsah: Connell, R.: Hegemonic Masculinity. Rethinking the Concept. Gender and Society, December 2005, s. 829 – 859 (31)
• Náhradní obsah: Elshtain, Jean Bethke, The power and powerlessness of women, in: Bock, Gisela/ James, Susan (eds.), Beyond equality and Difference. Citizenship, feminist politics, female subjectivity, London and New York 1992
• Handbook of studies on men & masculinities. Online. Edited by Michael S. Kimmel - Jeff Hearn - Raewyn Connell. London: SAGE, 2005. 1 online. ISBN 9781452233833. [citováno 2024-04-23] info
• BADINTER, Élisabeth. Materská láska : od 17. storočia po súčasnosť. Online. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Aspekt, 1998. 277 s. ISBN 8085549042. [citováno 2024-04-23] info
• BOURDIEU, Pierre. Teorie jednání. Online. Translated by Věra Dvořáková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 1998. 179 s. ISBN 8071845183. [citováno 2024-04-23] info

Teaching methods

informed and co-ordinated class discussions based on the compulsory reading reveal particular gender praxes in various social institutions; semminar based class

Assessment methods

participation in seminar based discussion, presentations, heavy reading (mostly in English), and fieldwork - writing a seminar work, reviewing a book and a written text at the end

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

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