*There are two sets of questions to review for next week, this one and the one just before entitled "Work & Family".*
Please read through these questions and post a response to one question for each article. (for information on term usage surrounding "marriage", "gay" or "same sex marriage" see terminology)
Butler
Why do some gays & lesbians oppose marriage? Why do many gays & lesbians support marriage?
Why do some argue that marriage buys into the notion of a partiarchal model of relationships? Are there alternatives to marriage that would provide all the benefits without "buying into heterosexuality?"
How could marriage between LGBTi persons challenge traditional or historical notions of family? What factors might suggest that the traditional notion of family needs to be challenged?
Hochschild
What is the Time bind? Give examples of how advertisers have used the time bind to sell products to working parents?
Do you agree with Hochschild's theory on why parents choose not to spend more time at home? How universally could her theory be applied? (think about race, and social class differences)
Why has home become work and work become home? What theory of management has been significant in changing workplace atmosphere? What assumptions are used when the workplace is being described as "home?"
For next week, please come prepared to discuss these questions:
Think about the paid work patterns of your parent(s). What is their current situation? Move back 5 years, and another 5 years.
What , if anything, stands out about their paid work? In relation to managing family responsibilities?
Did the need for childcare generate conflicts or require strategizing within the family? What about transportation or when a child was sick? How are the housework responsiblities allocated (did housework get done)?
Has your parent(s) experienced your influenced your decisions about paid work & family? How?
If you are planning to combining paid work & family, how will you do so? (for some you are likely already doing this, what do you do?) If you are not going to do both, what has impacted your decision?
An update about changes to the syllabus and few reminders.
* Your Thinking Paper # 2 "What's in the News" is due on tuesday at the
beginning of class.
* We'll take Quiz #2 again on tuesday without the research design, a few
application questions will be added instead.
* The course schedule is pushed back one week, this applies to only the
readings. Due dates for assignments, and quizzes do not change. On
tuesday, we will discuss Family. Instead of two weeks to discuss
institutions, we'll combine these into a single week (more specifics
to come).
We discussed many of these terms in class. Please post the definition that you came up with for our class discussion. Be sure to read over the discussion questions for the Lorber, Omi & Winant, and Rubin articles.
(note: our next quiz will happen toward the second half of class and will cover the topics of sex, gender and race)
SEXUAL REVOLUTION
SEXUAL EVOLUTION
SEXUAL SCRIPTS
SEXUAL IDENTITY
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
HETEROSEXUALITY / HOMOSEXUALITY / BISEXUALITY / TRANSEXUALITY
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SEX & GENDER
GENDER ROLES
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
GENDER STRATIFICATION
RACE
ETHNICITY
PREJUDICE
RACISM (AND FORMS OF)
ASSIMILATION
PLURALISM
COLONIZATION
MINORITY GROUP
MAJORITY GROUP
STEREOTYPE
To facilitate our discussion next week, here are some questions that I'd like you to be ready to answer:
Taking a page from the SQ3R (Robinson 1970) study method (Tips for Success), formulate some questions:
What is the chapter / article about or what question is this chapter trying to answer?
Better still, what question do I have that this chapter / article might be able to help me answer?
Lorber - What is the difference between U.S. transvestitism and the lower-class women in Egypt who act and dress like men?
How does the social construction of gender legitimate women’s inequality? (what is the social construction of gender?)
How could the social construction of gender be changed to give women more power in society?
Omi & Winant - What does Omi and Winant imply about the act of “passing” for a particular race? (is it a dynamic process, if so , how does it vary?)
Rubin - Why might white ethnics, especially those from the working class, have a particular antagonism for the more recent immigrants who are people of color, despite the fact that most came from immigrant families themselves not long ago? Pay special consideration to the role of the economy.
More generally, how would one’s values change as one becomes assimilated into the dominant U.S. culture?
Please post your ideas about the following concepts. You should be able to define and use the terms appropriately. Do not duplicate a prior posting to a term unless you belief further clarication is needed or have a question about the concept. If you did not post last week, be sure to do so before class next week.
SEXUAL REVOLUTION
SEXUAL EVOLUTION
SEXUAL SCRIPTS
SEXUAL IDENTITY
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
HETEROSEXUALITY / HOMOSEXUALITY / BISEXUALITY / TRANSEXUALITY
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SEX & GENDER
GENDER ROLES
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
GENDER STRATIFICATION
RACE
ETHNICITY
PREJUDICE
RACISM (AND FORMS OF)
ASSIMILATION
PLURALISM
COLONIZATION
MINORITY GROUP
MAJORITY GROUP
STEREOTYPE
A reminder that for today's reading:
Chapter 7 pages 163-195, Chaper 11 pp 306 -323 (skim the supplemental text blocks)
In the MSL book, # 11 Lorber, Night to his day.
In response to questions about the upcoming quiz (and this can applied to all future quizzes), the material you can expect to be covered on a given quiz is information from the text book, readings from the Mapping the Social Landscape, and material discussed in class, which spans from quiz to quiz.
For the quiz tomorrow, it will include the material covered in Chapter 2 (specifically scientific method), Chapter 4 (Culture), and Chapter 6 (Socialization). In addition, the Trask, Anderson, Dryer and Granfield Readings.