Sociology 1020

Introduction to Sociology
Fall 2019
Dr Scott Schaffer

Week 12 Lecture Outline: Classification Struggles III: Gender, Sex, Sexuality

NOTE: The first substantive part of today’s lecture will be a Q&A on fitting together the
readings on class with the documentary and my lecture outline from last week. In essence,
it’s a review session. Bring questions (even if they’re not specifi cally on last week).

I. Term exam stuff: prep sheet, questions, etc.

II. Q&A on class, classification struggles, The Divide.

III. Classification struggles III: Gender, sex, sexuality.

A. The phenomenology of gender as a construct. Gender’s constituent components.

B. The forms of classification struggles involving gender. Social discourses, birth lotteries,
and mind/body splits.

C. Sites of inequality.

D. Structural discrimination, privilege, prejudice, bias, redux. Experiencing classification

struggles.

E. Intersections of discrimination and privilege.

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 Sociology 1020
Introduction to Sociology
Fall 2019
Dr Scott Schaffer

Fall Term Examination Prep Sheet

Details: The fall midterm examination will take place on Weds Dec 18/2019 from 7pm to 10pm. It
is cumulative across the term in terms of the topics, concepts, and ideas. However, only readings done
since the October exam are fair game for the game.

The location is as follows based on your last name:

• Abbott to Stangolis — North Campus Building 101

• Stanton to Yadav — North Campus Building 114
• Yan to Zwinkels — North Campus Building 117

You will have the entire exam period to complete the exam.

Makeup Examination Policy: Students who are unable to sit for the fall midterm examination at the
given time and place must notify me within 24 hours of the start of the examination and seek accommodation from
the Social Science Counselling Centre or their home faculty within 48 hours. If accommodation on
medical or compassionate grounds is granted, I will provide you details of the makeup examination.
Accommodation requests need to be submitted no later than Thurs Dec 19/2019 at the end of business.
Students who do not do both of these things will receive a zero (0) for the fall midterm
examination. There are no self-reported absences for exams during the December exam period.
If students that are granted accommodation for the makeup miss the makeup exam, the weight of
this exam will be added to the final exam.

Exam Day Policies: On the day of the examination, you will be allowed to have the following:

• Your UWO OneCard student ID;

• Three #2 HB pencils — no pens or markers may be used to write the exam;
• A white eraser is highly recommended;
• Survival supplies — food, water, coffee, etc.

No other materials, such as laptops, notes, dictionaries, textbooks, etc., are permitted. Mobile phones must
be shut off and left in your bag, which must be left at the front of the classroom. The invigilators for the
exam will keep time and let you know when there is one hour, 30 minutes, and 10 minutes left in the
exam. There is also a clock at the front of the classroom.
Be sure that when writing the examination, you completely and clearly fill out all bubbles,
especially for your student ID and the exam form number. Erase anything that looks like it could be a
confusing answer.
Students are asked to leave the room promptly after completing the exam. However, if you
complete the exam in the last 10 minutes, you will be asked to remain at your seat until time has been
called in order not to disturb other students. At the end of the examination, you will return your response
sheet and exam booklet to one of the invigilators.

Marks: Once the exams have been scanned and assessed for errors and response similarity, your exam
marks will be entered into OWL and you will be notifi ed. You will be able to consult your responses and
the exam booklet for your version of the exam after that time.
Please note that all exams will be assessed by software designed to identify unusual patterns of
similar responses that may indicate cheating. Suspected instances of academic dishonesty discovered
during the marking of this exam will trigger the policies laid out in the Undergraduate Calendar and the
course outline.

Exam Format: The exam will consist of sixty (60) multiple-choice questions. As has been mentioned in
class, they are designed not simply to test recall, but also to test application and integration of the
knowledge you have gained thus far in the term. You should be sure to read each question and the
responses carefully in order to be sure that you are clear on what is being asked.

Consultations: You are encouraged to consult with me or your TA during the preparation for this
exam. In addition to my regular offi ce hours, I will be available by Skype for consultations; please email
me to arrange a time. I will also have offi ce hours on Th Dec 12 from 11am to 245pm in SSC 5411 or a
nearby seminar room, depending on how many students attend.

Topics, Concepts, and Other “Fair Game” Materials: So far in the term, we have covered the
following topics, concepts, ideas, authors, and issues. Note that these are not three separate categories of
things to prepare, but rather three different ways of looking at what you’ve learned this term.

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The sociological imagination Social structure and institutions

Employment with a sociology degree
Approaches to university life
Information literacy
Logical fallacies, biases, and heuristics
The “sociological toolbox”C ResearchSo aolgual
imagination
Norms, the normal, and normativity
Concepts, theories, and “sociological objects”
Sociological research methods
Observations and interpretations
Socialization, subjectivity, and the self
The sociological master categories: class, “race”/
ethnicity, sex/gender
Power and its three dimensions
Intersectionality
The role of bodies in sociology
Forms of and social discourses around
stratification

Concepts — Note: These are concepts specifically covered in lecture. They are in addition to those listed at
the end of each chapter in The Sociology Project, which are also fair game for the exam. This also includes
the concepts from the first half of the term — that way, you don’t have to dig up your old prep sheet!

The sociological imagination The four faces of sociology

Sociological explanations Theory
Public issues vs. private troubles Concept
Individualistic explanations Proposition
Comparative analysis Epistemology
Society Ontology
Norms, the normative, and the “normal” Sociology as a probabilistic science
Social structure Data or evidence
Institutions Objective vs subjective
Social hierarchy Reflexivity thereisvalueadded to anissue
Social fact Social mobility My utility
Self Inequality
Subject and subjectivity Social discourses
Subject position Classification schemes
Status Stratification
Levels of analysis Meritocracy
The objects of sociological study Ascribed and achieved statuses
Social construction of reality Racial formation and racialization
Ethnicity vs. “race” Class and its definitions
The “birth lottery” Habitus
Institutional vs interpersonal forms of Distinction
discrimination The four forms of capital
Gender versus sex “Race,” class, gender as constructs

Authors — Note: These are in addition to the assigned chapters from The Sociology Project, and only include
those readings since the Fall midterm exam.

Nicholas Fitz Girl Up Initiative Uganda

Nona Willis Aronowitz Christina Cauterucci
Tanvi Misra Jon Greenberg
Gina Crosley-Corcoran Anonymous
Emily Badger Herbert Gans
Kristin Wong Lucy Tiven
Kate Horowitz Derek Leahy
Laura Niemi and Liane Young Mayana Slobodian
Kai Morgan

Other Names to Know — these include major sociologists and theorists discussed in the texts or in lecture.

C. Wright Mills Erving Goffman

Karl Marx Immanuel Wallerstein
Émile Durkheim Erik Olin Wright
Max Weber Simone de Beauvoir
Georg Simmel Jane Addams
W.E.B. DuBois Patricia Hill Collins
Talcott Parsons Dorothy Smith
Ralf Dahrendorf Michel Foucault
George Herbert Mead Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Herbert Blumer Pierre Bourdieu

Guest lectures: Dr Sean Waite; Dr Patrick Denice

Twitter articles:

Laurie Monsebraaten, “Those who toil in low-wage jobs in the GTA more likely to be visible minorities,”
Toronto Star
Bill Curry, “New Minister of Middle Class Prosperity declines to provide clear definition of middle class,”
The Globe and Mail
Ivana Kottasová, “The 1% grabbed 82% of all wealth created in 2017” (and subsequent link to the
Oxfam report), CNN Business
Erica Ifill, “How Don Cherry resisted Canada’s brownface,” Maclean’s
Ann Choi, Keith Herbert, Olivia Winslow, and Arthur Browne, “Long Island Divided,” Newsday
Gabrielle Jackson, “The female problem: how male bias in medical trials ruined women's health,” The
Guardian

Documentaries and other media: The Divide (2016, dir. Katharine Round); Bob McDonald and Angela
Saini, “The return of race science — the quest to fortify racism with bad biology,” Quirks and Quarks (CBC)
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