SOC 4 - Sociology of Gender

    Recent Professors
    Torisha Khonach
    Recent Semesters
    Fall 2026
    Class Size
    30 students
    Credits
    3
    Fall 2026 Sections
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    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4J · CSU GE Area D0 · CSU GE Area D4
    Description
    This course is designed to introduce students to gender as a basic organizing principle of social life at the macro-analytic institutional level and the micro-analytic individual level. Students will examine how gender, femininity, and masculinity are socially constructed, and how these constructions shape gender, the socialization of gender, how individuals "do" gender, and how these affect self-identity, interpersonal interaction, and inequality in society. Students will critically analyze the interactions of gender with race, class, sexuality, the impact of economic and political change on gender expectations and practices. NOTE: Course formerly Sociology of Women and Men (C-ID: SOCI 140) ADVISORY:ENGL 280 or eligible for ENGL 1A .