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SOCY 403 Sociology of the Body Units: 3.00
This seminar aims at advanced students interested in exploring the body as a site for the production of social and cultural meaning and social inequality. Theoretical approaches may include critical race theory, queer theory, feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and sociological theories of the body. Topics covered may include the ways that representations of the body are linked to practices of racism, sexism, moral regulation, colonialism and nation-building.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Seminar, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (Level 4 or above and registration in a SOCY Major or Joint Honours Plan and a [minimum grade of C in SOCY 210/3.0 and SOCY 211/3.0 and SOCY 226/3.0 and SOCY 227/3.0] and a [minimum GPA of 2.60 in SOCY 210/3.0 and SOCY 211/3.0 and SOCY 226/3.0 and SOCY 227/3.0] and a [minimum GPA of 2.60 in up to 18.0 units of SOCY option courses]).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply course concepts to contemporary social justice issues relating to embodiment.
- Define key concepts and identify important debates in sociology in relation to the body.
- Explore and challenge common-sense understandings of the body, and to describe how the body is enacted and "done" in practice and in real life.
- Understand how experiences of embodiment vary through intersections of gender, race, sexuality, class, nationality, and ability.