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Department_Chair: David Bozak
Department_Chair_Email: dab@oswego.edu
Additional_Contact: Norm Weiner
Additional_Contact_Email: weiner@oswego.edu

Course_Number: SOC260
Course_Type: New Course
Course_Title: Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender

Catalog_Description: 
This course examines concepts of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, examining how these are played out in structures of society such as work, age, family, education, sport, religion, law, and government, including the intersections among these concepts, their intersection with social structures that support them, and their effects on people.  Not open to students that have taken SOC 250.

Prerequisites: SOC 100
Fl - every Fall: Yes
Semester_Hours: 3

Justification: 
This is a standard course in sociology curricula, taught from the essential but more challenging macrosociological perspective, in which students begin to engage in large-scale, logical thinking and critical reading, expanding their grasp of key concepts, perspectives, and analyses through the application of these concepts, perspectives and analyses to race, ethnicity, class, and gender and their intersections with social structures, all to increase student awareness and understanding of diversity in society.

Course_Objectives: 
Upon completion of the course, students will have begun to develop the foundations of the capacity to think logically and read critically in the social and behavioral sciences, which will foster the ability to: 

(1) begin to develop an understanding of the concept of "society"; 

(2) elucidate this concept of "society" through a critical examination of race, ethnicity, class, and gender; 

(3) critically examine the practices and effects of sexism, racism, and classism on the various social structures and on social actors; 

(4) discover and understand the relationships among and between race, ethnicity, class, and gender and the various structures which comprise society, and the consequences of these relationships; 

(5) critically explore the notions of "justice," “tolerance,” and "fairness" as they are examined through the study of the intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender and the structures of society.

Course_Description: 
A. 	Analyses of Society: Basic Theories, Models and Methodologies			

B. 	Key Concepts and Perspectives: Social Stratification and Inequality		
1. Structures of class: Economics, power			
2. Structures of race/ethnicity
3. Structures of gender			
4. Structures of power	

C. 	Key Concepts, Perspectives, and Analyses: Intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender with social structures and social institutions	
1. Family
2. Economy
3. Polity and social control
4. Education
5. Religion
6. Sport
7. Health and medicine
8. Media
9. Military

D. 	Social Change and Social Issues	

Resources: 
No additional resources needed

Bibliography: 
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Andersen, Margaret L. 2005. Thinking About Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Gender (7th ed.). New York: Allyn & Bacon. 

Andersen, Margaret L. and Patricia Hill Collins. 2004. Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology. 5th edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co.	

Anthias, Floya. 1992. “Connecting 'race' and ethnic phenomena.” Sociology v26 n3: 421(18). 

Back, Les and John Solomos. 2000. Theories of Race and Racism. A Reader. New York: Routledge. 

Bem, Sandra L. 1993. The lenses of gender: transforming the debate on sexual inequality. New Haven: Yale University Press. 

Berger, P. L. 1963. “Invitation to Sociology”. Pp. 6-9 in Seeing Ourselves, J. J. Macionis and N. V. Benokraitis (Eds.) 1995. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Brenner, Johanna. 2001. Women and the Politics of Class. Monthly Review Press. 

Cahn, Susan K. 1994. Coming on strong: gender and sexuality in twentieth-century women's sport. New York: Free Press. Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada. New York: Maxwell Macmillan International. 

Ducille, Ann. 1994. “Dyes and dolls: multicultural Barbie and the merchandising of difference.” Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. v6 n1: 46(23). 

Ellis, Alan L. and Ellen D. B. Riggle, editors. 1996. Sexual identity on the job: issues and services. New York: Haworth Press. 

Faludi, Susan. 1992. Backlash: the undeclared war against American women. New York: Anchor Books.

Frendreis, John and Raymond Tatalovich. 1997. “Who supports English-only language laws? Evidence from the 1992 National Election Study.” Social Science Quarterly. v78 n2: 354(15). 

Gandy Jr., and Katharina Kopp, Tanya Hands, Karen Frazer, David Phillips. 1997. “Race and risk: factors affecting the framing of stories about inequality, discrimination, and just plain bad luck.” Public Opinion Quarterly. v61 n1: 158(25). 

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Hays, Sharon. 2003. Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform. New York: Oxford University Press. 

Herz, Rosanna and Faith I.T. Ferguson. 1996. “Childcare choice and constraints in the United States: social class, race and the influence of family views.” (Special Issue: Families in a Changing World). Journal of Comparative Family Studies. v27 n2: 249(32). 

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Hosseini, Khaled. 2003. The Kite Runner. New York: Riverhead Books.

Jackson, Stevi and Sue Scott, eds. 2002. Gender. A Sociological Reader. Routledge. 

Jamieson, J. J. 1995. Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership. New York: Oxford.

Kimmel, Michael S. and Michael A. Messner. 2006. Men’s Lives (7th ed.), Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Kimmel, M.S. and M.A. Messner. 1995. “Men as 'Gendered Beings.” Pp. 63-65 in Issues in Feminism. 3rd ed. S. Ruth (Ed.). Mountain View, CA: Mayfield.

Kitwana, Bakari. 2003. The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture. Basic Civitas Books. 

Krieger, Nancy and Elizabeth Fee. 1993. “What’s class got to do with it? The state of health data in the United States today.” Socialist Review. v23 n1: 59(24). 

Lareau, Annette. 2003. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 

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MacLeod, Jay. 2004. Ain’t no makin’ it: Aspirations and attainment in a low-income neighborhood. New York: Westview Press. 

Mahler, Sarah. 1995. American Dreaming. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 

McCall, Leslie. 2001.Complex Inequality: Gender, Race & Class in the New Economy. Routledge. 

McCoy, Frank. 1994. “Rethinking the cost of discrimination: economists discuss how racial issues impact the corporate line.” Black Enterprise. v24 n6: 54(6). 

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Richards, David A. J. 1998. Women, gays, and the constitution: the grounds for feminism and gay rights in culture and law. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Rothenberg, Paula. 2006. Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study. 6tth ed. New York: Worth Publishing. 

Rubin, Lillian B. 1995. Families on the fault line: America's working class speaks about the family, the economy, race, and ethnicity. New York: HarperPerennial. 

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Segal, Troy. 1992. “The riots: ‘just as much about class as about race.’” Business Week. n3266: 47(1). 

Sharff, Jagna W. 1998. King Kong on 4 Street. New York: Westview Press.

Silverman, Robert Mark. 1998. “The effects of racism and racial discrimination on minority business development: the case of black manufacturers in Chicago's ethnic beauty aids industry.” Journal of Social History. v31 n3: 571(27). 

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Tannen, Deborah. 1994. Talking from 9 to 5: how women's and men's conversational styles affect who gets heard, who gets credit, and what gets done at work. New York: Morrow.

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Other_Comments: This course will be part of the proposed revision to the sociology major, replacing SOC250 in the core. This is based upon the recommendation of the outside evaluators in the context of the sociology departments self-study, concluded in May 2007.

IP_Adress: 129.3.198.71