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Module Seven Discussion Forum

Post your participation post for the week in this forum.  Make sure to read the " Discussion participation requirements" section of the syllabus before posting anything in this forum, and use the  "Checklist for responses to discussion questions" I provided in this area of the course to help you. The  minimum length requirement for your responses to the discussion questions in order to earn any credit is 600 words (does not include references).  Not surprisingly, the most effective responses to discussion questions well-exceed the minimum. The minimum length for each of your replies to classmates in order to earn any credit is 150 words. 

IMPORTANT -  In order to avoid problems with plagiarism, it is essential that you cite and reference all of the information you present in your analysis. But this is really easy to do! In-text citations must include author, year of publication,  and page number. APA recommends but does not require including page numbers in summarized or paraphrased information taken from sources. But in this course, we will follow the APA recommendation and include page numbers in ALL citations, for both direct quotes and paraphrased information. Don't forget to put direct quotes in quotation marks.

With regard to references at the end of your posts, here is information to help you with your references directly from the APA.

https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-examples.pdfLinks to an external site.

 

If you have any questions, please let me know. I will be more than happy to help you!

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Using concepts/ideas from three of the theorists we covered in Module 7, provide  five examples (total) from current times in the U.S. to show how the ideas apply. 

A -  Fully describe  one important idea/concept from  each of the three theorists you have chosen for the analysis. 

B - Apply these three ideas/concepts to specific information about current society (the 5 examples). There must be at least one connection to modern society for each of the three theorists.  Draw explicit connections to the theories.

Label each section. 

In Part A, information on the three theorists must be presented from both the writings by the theorists in the textbook  and other assigned material for this week (no non-assigned information for Part A).

In doing Part B, in addition to information from Part A, you must also include information on the current society from at least two outside sources. The outside sources can be but need not be from academic sources. They must, however, be credible sources. 

Module 7: Overview

In Module 7, our main focus this week will be on gender and sexuality. As you will see, both the concepts and how they are articulated in society are far more complicated than at first might appear. And if you have been following the news, you recognize that American society is currently engaged in a series of social and political struggles to define, understand, control, and liberate sexuality.

Module 7: Objectives

At the conclusion of this learning module students will be able to:

· Describe the major ideas and arguments in the work of Gilman, Smith, Butler, and Connell pertaining to sex and gender.

· Critique the work of each of these theorists.

· Analyze the work of all these theorists with regard to implications for public policy.

Module 7: Things to do

 

Please progress through this module as follows:

 

1. View the video announcement on the home page for the course.

 

2. Readings from the textbook and additional articles:

 

-Ch. 14 Highlighting Gender and Sexuality   

-INTRODUCTION 

-CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860 – 1935)   Women and Economics (1898) 

-The Gilman article is not in the textbook. Click this link to access the article: 

https://open.oregonstate.education/sociologicaltheory/chapter/gilman-on-women-and-economics-1898/  Links to an external site.

 

-14.1 DOROTHY E. SMITH (1926–) 

- Smith’s Analysis of Gender, Power, and Perspectives on Society 

-Reading 14.1: Excerpts from Smith’s The Conceptual Practices of Power (1990) 

 

-14.2 Judith Butler (1956-)

-Butler and the Structural Conditions of the Performance of Gender: Bodies that Matter (1993)

-Optional - Reading 14.2: Excerpts from Butler’s Bodies that Matter (1993)

-Required - More on Butler from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (just 3.1.2 and 3.3)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-gender/ Links to an external site.

-Section 3.1.2  Normativity argument

-Section 3.3   Are sex and gender distinct?

-Optional - Read this if you are still unclear on Butler's theory:  "Gender Trouble in Social Psychology: How Can Butler’s Work Inform Experimental Social Psychologists’ Conceptualization of Gender?" T. Morgenroth and M. Ryan - The section entitled "Butler’s View on Gender."

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01320/full Links to an external site.

 

-RAEWYN (R.W.) CONNELL (1944-) 

-R.W. Connell on the Construction of Masculinities  -Reading 14.4 Excerpt from Connell’s Masculinities (1995) 

 

3. Read the Instructions for the Social Theory Globalization PowerPoint Video assignment.

4. Participate in the weekly discussion (click the "Discussions" link on the left of your screen).