Gender, Race, and Ethnicity: social constructions?

Dozent/in	Prof. Dr. Bettina Beer
Veranstaltungsart	Hauptseminar
Code	FS211253
Semester	Frühjahrssemester 2021
Durchführender Fachbereich	Ethnologie
Studienstufe	Bachelor Master
Termin/e	wöchentlich (Do), ab 25.02.2021, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, HS 11
Umfang	2 Semesterwochenstunden
Turnus	wöchentlich
Inhalt	Social policy in contemporary states is frequently focused on issues of gender, ethnicity and race, prominent in politics and the discourses of civil society. Moreover, countless social science publications feature claims that gender/ethnicity/race “is a social construction”, made in ways that suggest the straightforward expression of a fact, often with the implication that other perspectives are compromised by their failure to recognise it. But what is entailed by such statements? What theoretical perspectives support them? How do they help explain contemporary social issues? We will discuss different areas of social science in which social constructionism has come to be regarded as common sense in the matter of social identities, with a view to making their theoretical and conceptual commitments explicit.
E-Learning	HS Social Construction Uhrzeit: Dies ist ein regelmäßig stattfindendes Meeting Jederzeit treffen Zoom-Meeting beitreten https://unilu.zoom.us/j/91004617737?pwd=zmcvoxcvnmrscy8zvhzcslzjc01nzz09 Meeting-ID: 910 0461 7737 Kenncode: 308510
Sprache	Deutsch
Abschlussform / Credits	Aktive Teilnahme / 4 Credits
Hörer-/innen	Nach Vereinbarung
Kontakt	bettina.beer@unilu.ch
Literatur	Texte werden frühzeitig auf OLAT bereitgestellt Einführende Literatur Appiah, Kwame Anthony 2018 The Lies that Bind. Rethinking Identity. London: Profile Books. Risjord, Mark 2014 Philosophy of social science: a contemporary introduction. New York: Routledge.