Gender and Social Structure
Code: 106995 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2503878 Sociocultural Gender Studies | OB | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Nuria Alcaraz Coca
- Email:
- nuria.alcaraz@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
No prerequisits
Objectives and Contextualisation
- Understand capitalist, patriarchal and colonial domination structures and their evolution
- Understanding the stratification of society according to gender, class, race, sexuality and more through intersectionality
- Know and know how to use the main theoretical contributions of feminism for the analysis of the social structure
- Develop critical skills and arguments for the analysis of social structure and the transformation of social inequalities
- Know how to build indicators to measure social inequalities
Learning Outcomes
- CM23 (Competence) Apply, in the activities carried out, criteria that promotes sustainable values, behaviour and practices, which take gender equality, equity and respect for human rights into account.
- CM24 (Competence) Develop basic indicators to evaluate public policies from a gender perspective.
- KM40 (Knowledge) Contrast the different theoretical and empirical approaches to social structure and structural gender inequality.
- KM41 (Knowledge) Contextualise the main historical processes for political structuring, transformation and intervention related to gender inequality.
- KM43 (Knowledge) Identify the structural factors that explain the production and reproduction of social inequality, especially gender inequality.
- SM02 (Skill) Use technical and interpretative vocabulary specific to the disciplines required in a given project, presentation or assignment, making use of inclusive language.
- SM35 (Skill) Produce an organised and politically correct speech, orally and in writing, in the relevant language.
- SM37 (Skill) Use social inequality indicators, especially gender inequality indicators, to draw up intersectional studies and diagnoses for the purpose of intervention.
- SM38 (Skill) Analyse examples of gender inequality in different spheres (legal, workplace, education, family).
- SM40 (Skill) Base your statements on academic publications and/or empirical evidence.
Content
- The social structure and social inequalities from a gender perspective
- The division of labor: capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy
- Intersectionality and the axes of social inequality of gender, sexuality, social class, race, etc.
- The relationship between structure and action: evolutions, transformations and resistances
- Between the macro and the micro: inequal institutions, gender regimes and its reproduction
- Analysis of stratification and social mobility with a gender perspective
- Indicators to measure social inequalities
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Debates | 16 | 0.64 | CM23, SM02, SM35, SM37, SM38, SM40 |
| Master classes | 40 | 1.6 | CM23, CM24, KM40, KM41, KM43, SM02, SM35, SM37, SM38, SM40 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Group essays and seminars | 10 | 0.4 | CM23, CM24, KM40, KM41, KM43, SM02, SM35, SM37, SM38, SM40 |
| Read literature | 24 | 0.96 | CM23, KM40, KM41, KM43, SM38, SM40 |
Master classes
Reading texts (in Spanish, Catalan and English)
Accompanying the reading of texts in the classroom through seminars
Classroom discussions through seminars
Support for the preparation of group work
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exam | 30% | 20 | 0.8 | CM23, CM24, KM40, KM41, KM43, SM02, SM35, SM37, SM38, SM40 |
| Participation in class | 10% | 10 | 0.4 | CM23, KM40, KM41, KM43, SM02, SM35 |
| Seminars | 30% | 20 | 0.8 | CM23, CM24, KM40, KM41, KM43, SM02, SM35, SM37, SM38, SM40 |
| Work essay | 30% | 10 | 0.4 | CM23, CM24, KM40, KM41, KM43, SM02, SM35, SM37, SM38, SM40 |
Continuous evaluation
Attendance and active participation 10%
Group seminars 30%
Group essay 30%
Exam 30%
Unique evaluation
Exam 40%
Individual essay 1 40%
Individual essay 2 20%
Not evaluable
According to point 9 of article 266 of the UAB Academic Regulations, when it is considered that the student has not been able to provide sufficient evaluation evidence, this subject must be classified as non-evaluable and at the same time the teaching guide must establish the criteria for assigning a non-evaluable. Thus, whether there are indications or guidelines at the center level or whether the criterion is the person responsible for the subject, the definition of what is not evaluable must always be added to the teaching guide.
Bibliography
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Acker, Joan (2006). Inequality regimes: Gender, class, and race in organizations, Gender and Society, 20(4), 441–464.
Borderías, Cristina; Carrasco, Cristina; Alemany, Carme. (eds) (1994). Las mujeres y el trabajo. Rupturas conceptuales. Madrid: FUHEM-Icaria.
Carrasco, Cristina; Borderías, Cristina; Torns Teresa (2019) El trabajo de cuidados: historia, teoría y políticas, Ed. Fuhem
Connell, R.W (2003) La organización social de la masculinidad ¿Todos los hombres son iguales?: identidades masculinas y cambios sociales / coord. por Carlos Lomas García, 2003, ISBN 84-493-1460-7
Connell, R.W. (2004) Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics. 2 nd edition. Stanford: Stanford University Press
Crenshaw, Kimberle (1989) “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics”. The University of Chicago
Delphy, Christine (1985) El enemigo principal. El enemigo principal y otros textos. Barcelona: LaSal
De Miguel Álvarez, Ana (2005) La articulación clásica del feminismo yel socialismo: el conflicto clase-género, Teoría feminista: de la ilustración a la globalización, de Miguel Álvarez, A. y Celia Amorós Puente, C. (Coord.) Vol. 1, págs. 295-332.
Krolokke, C.; Sorensen, A. S. (2006) Three Waves of Feminism. From Suffragettes to Grrls, in Krolokke, C.; Sorensen, A. S. Gender Communication Theories and Analyses. From Silence to Performance,1-24,ThousandOaks:Sage
Hartmann, Heidi (1979) Un matrimonio mal avenido: hacia una unión más progresiva entre marxismo y feminismo. Fundación Rafael Campalans. Parpers de la Fundació/88
Mergaert, Lut i Lombardo, Emanuela (2014). ‘Resistance to implementing gender mainstreaming in EU research policy’, in: Weiner, Elaine and Heather MacRae (eds): ‘The persistent invisibility of gender in EU policy’ European Integration online Papers (EIoP), Special issue 1, 18, 1-21.
Observatori de la Igualtat de Gènere (2018) Dossier estadístic les dones a Catalunya 2022, Institut Català de les Dones (ICD)
Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (2018), Índices e indicadores de desarrollo humano, Actualización estadística de 2018
Rico, M., Gómez-Limón, J.A., (2011) Propuesta metodológica para la construcción de indicadores sintéticos de igualdad de género. El caso del mediorural de Castilla y León, Vol 69, No 1
Rodó-Zárate, Maria (2017) “Interseccionalitat”, Ed. Tigre de Paper (llibre disponible en biblioteques i també disponible en castellà)
Rodó-Zárate, M., & Jorba, M. (2022). Metaphors of intersectionality: Reframing the debate with a new proposal. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 29(1), 23-38.
Verge, Tània i De La Fuente, Maria (2014). Playing with Different Cards: Party Politics, Gender Quotas and Women’s Empowerment. International Political Science Review, 35(1),67–69.
West, Candace, & Zimmerman, Don H. (1987). Doing Gender, Gender and Society, 1(2), 125–151.
Software
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Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |