WGS 574 - Gender and Society

Graduate standing, SOC 100 or WGS 200; or consent of instructor.3

Nature and causes of sex stratification in society. Cross-cultural regularities in sex role development. Freudian and neo-Freudian perspectives, Marxist perspectives, structural functionalism, and radical feminism. Interpersonal and institutional processes which operate to keep women and men in their place in American society. Alternatives to structured sexual inequality in societies.Not open to students with credit for SOC/WGS 474.Also Listed as SOC 574