Soc Day 54 - Socialization of Boys

EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY:  You can earn extra credit for attending and participating the "Great Decisions" discussion series.  Please see the email I sent last week for details.  If you would like to come to any of the discussions, please let me know so that I can add you to the Schoology group.

Objective:  Define gender as a sociological concept.

Task:  When you arrive to class, please read "How Boys Teach Each Other to Be Boys" (The Atlantic, 6/6/2014).   We're going to spend today's class examining the impact of binary gender socialization on men and boys.

Homework:

• Thursday, April 21 - GDDS "The UNs Post 2015 Development Agenda and Leadership"
• Monday, April 25 - GDDS "Climate Geopolitics"
• Thursday, April 28 - Gender & Ageism Assessment
• Tuesday, May 3 - GDDS "Cuba & the US"

Extending Class Discussion:

• "What it Means to Be a 'Man'" (Medical Daily, 3/22/2015)