This course is built around the exploration of ideas in the sociology of race, class, and gender. This course will focus on understanding multiple positions, and learning how to refute arguments based on evidence and reasoning. Focus will be given to topics in the sociology of race, class, and gender that carry important political implications.
Some of the possible topics include:
- What ‘race', ‘class', and ‘gender' are
- Understanding racism in the sciences
- Sex work, pornography, and radical feminism
- Marxism and the alienation of the working class
- Intersectional theory
- Mass incarceration and prison abolition