SOC 2934 - Culture and the Social Body

1 Course Unit(s)
Also listed as ANTH 2934.
This course is inspired by the premise that the body is at the core of all human experience, and that our embodiments are intertwined with culture, social structures, privilege and oppression, hierarchies of power, and social surveillance and control. Engages with Foucauldian, feminist, queer, and postmodern sociological perspectives in order to examine issues of gender, sexuality, race, disability, class, technology, consumerism, identity, and the media in relation to bodies and embodiments in the U.S. and transnational contexts.

General Education Requirement(s): IV
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 1024 or SOC 1004
Corequisite(s): None
Pre/Corequisite(s): None