SOC 309 - Seminar.Topics in Inequality

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Wellesley College

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Topic A for 2009-10: Critical Intersections: Race, Class, Gender, and Nation Radhakrishnan In an increasingly borderless world, does the nation still inspire a sense of community and belonging How are nations built and sus-tained In this course, we tackle these questions through the vocabularies of feminism, critical race theory, and postcolonial critique. By focusing on the mutual constitution of race, class, and gender, we will think about the nation as a tenuous patchwork of meanings that work together in different ways across various historical and spatial contexts, such as the U.S, India, and South Africa. Prerequisite: At least one course in the social sciences or permission of instructor. Distribution: Social and Behavioral Analysis Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0 Topic B: Language, Power, and Society Rutherford NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. Language is critical in the formation of social groups and struggles for power and prestige among groups. This course will survey language diversity in American society, based on such variables as class, ethnicity, race, gender, religion, age and region. Examination of language policy issues that illuminate the ways that dominant usages of language reinforce structured differences in social power and prestige among cultural groups. Political uses of language both legitimize and challenge key aspects of the social or-der, with particular attention to discursive attempts by both liberals and conservatives to appropriate the American narrative in staking their territory on contested issues. Prerequisite: At least one course in the social sciences or permission of instructor. Distribution: Social and Behavioral Analysis Semester: N/O Unit: 1.0

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3.00

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www.wellesley.edu

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(781) 283-1000

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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