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SOC M162: Sociology of Gender

WORKBOOK #1

Name & Student ID # : __________________________________________________________

Google Doc Link/URL: __________________________________________________________

Workbooks provide opportunities to relate course materials to media, experiences, and empirical works in a personal/reflective manner. Full credit responses meet length requirements, adhere to format/citation specifications, and sufficiently address every component of each prompt – while citing two concepts or quotes from assigned materials. A typical paragraph includes 4-8 sentences. Length specifications indicate the minimum expected, but you will not be marked down for longer replies. Insights should be original, well thought out, and supported by materials. Responses can either be elaborated on in a short essay that is 4 paragraphs long or as short answers which address each prompts components in bullet point format of the same length. Overall, Workbook #1 should come out to a total of 4 prompt responses, 16 paragraphs, and 8 cited concepts.

No cover page or References section are necessary. When citing materials, only note the author(s), publication year, and relevant page numbers or resource details in the parentheses (i.e. Lucal, 1999, p.794). To cite any concept from a lecture, guide, or slides just include my surname, the course number, and resource or date. Examples: Plaek, 2026, SOC M162 Week #1 Guide; Plaek, 2026, SOC M162 Lecture 1-7-2026; or Plaek, 2026 SOC M162 Recorded Lecture on Identity Development). You can apply any relevant concept from any week’s materials but do not reuse the same concepts. For example, do not cite grounded theory” more than once. You may cite two different concepts from the same resource – hence, you can define and apply “biogovernmentality and “stereotype threat” for prompt #2 even though both are drawn from the Week #2 Guide. Cited materials are limited to content from slides, guides, recorded lectures, live lectures, and mandatory resources (handouts, readings, videos). Do not cite resources that were supplemental or not assigned.

Every prompt must be initially and entirely written in a Google Doc. Make sure that our access is not restricted by clicking the blue share button (top right). In the “general access” dropdown either select anyone with the link or add me and your Grader in the “people with access” section. Do not delete any of work until your final grade has been processed by the Registrar. Grade deductions and/or referrals to the Dean may result due to failure to complete all work in a Google Doc and/or if any portion appears to be AI generated, plagiarized, your own work submitted to another class, or insights that we already covered in class (thus not your own).

Type replies using a single-spaced standard font and size on numbered pages with 1-inch margins. List your name, student ID, and the shareable link/URL for your Google Doc followed by your response to each prompt. Make sure that directions & rubrics for each prompt are removed. Please view the example prompt response in Canvas to see how this assignment and citations should be structured. If theres any prompt that youre uncomfortable with, discuss alternative options with me at least one week before the deadline. Upload as a Google Doc to its allotted space in the Assignments tab of Canvas by Wednesday 2/11 @ 11:59pm.

TOTAL POSSIBLE = 25 points

-0.75 points will be deducted for each missing or incorrectly applied citation;

-6 if there are no course materials properly cited in all 4 prompts (8 total are required)

Unless there are documented/exigent circumstances, 3% (-0.75) will be subtracted from the overall score for each day its late. 30% (-7.5 pts) will be deducted if 10+ days past due

-10% off any prompt with lengthy quotes, titles listed in responses, or redundant content

-3 points for not adhering to format (standard font/size, numbered pages, single spaced, 1-inch margins)

PROMPT #1 SOCIALIZATION (+5.5 points)

(#1) Reflect on these aspects related to your childhood experiences, and elaborate on the following points:

• What are some of your earliest memories about gender socialization experiences?
• How did these practices represent a form of borderwork/boundarywork?
• How did these practices reinforce the binary gender system?
• How can such interactions/ideologies contribute to 3 inequalities or differential outcomes throughout ones life?

up to 5.5 points (+1.25 childhood gender socialization experiences; +1 how these practices reflect borderwork; +1 how practices reinforce binary gender system; +0.75 x 3 inequalities/outcomes)

PROMPT #2 BIOGOVERNMENTALITY (+6.5 points)

(#2) Consider how your own experiences within grade school relate to our class discussions about Martins research and the scenes from Kindergarten Cop. Then address each of these components:

• What is hidden curriculum and how does it differ from explicit lessons or formal rules?
• Summarize 3 ways that gender was constructed interactionally by teachers from your school
• What may such practices teach kids about gender norms related to identities, behaviors, ideals and/or beliefs?
• How may these biogovernmental practices discipline bodies in ways that serve 3 institutional/school interests?

up to +6.5 points (+0.5 define hidden curriculum; +0.5 how this differs from explicit lessons or rules; +0.75 x 3 constructions of gender reinforced by your teachers; +1 what these practices convey about gender; +0.75 x 3 specific institutional interests these practices served to your school)

PROMPT #3 IDENTITY (+5.5 points)

(#3) Reflect on these aspects related to your gender performances, and elaborate on the following components:

• Describe an instance when you have in some way engaged in trying on gender
• What have been some core aspects with how you choose to do and display gender? How do expressions or adornments (i.e. clothing, hairstyles, accessories, embodiments) contribute to your sense of gender identity?
• How has your identification with gender in some way changed at any point/s in your life, and what do you think influenced these shifts? Examples to consider when responding to this component include: Was there any moment/s when gender felt less or more important to you? Did performing certain gender displays feel more necessary in specific contexts than others? Was there some aspect of your gender expression that you altered?
• What and/or who do you think might have inspired some of the ways that you have chosen to do gender? Influences can include family members, friends, subcultures, celebrities etc.

up to +5.5 points (+1 trying on gender; +1.5 doing & displaying gender; +1 some change within gender identification and/or performance; +1 what might have influenced change; +1 inspirations)

PROMPT #4 MEDIA & THEORIES (+7.5 points)

(#4) Watch a TV show, TV episode, or film (that has not already been discussed in this class) which portrays a social problem related to gender. Select 3 different perspectives from the Feminist Theories Handout which I posted in the Week #5 module. First describe the social problem related to gender, and how the character/s are impacted by it. Then provide a detailed summary of how the source/s of the problem would be understood each feminist perspective, and what solutions each theory would specifically recommend for addressing the problem.

TV SHOWS: Glow, Transparent, Pose, Orange is the New Black, The Deuce, Jasmine, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Handmaids Tale, Good Girls Revolt, Mad Men, The Fosters, Adolescence, Looking, Euphoria

FILMS: Monster, Precious, Frida, Mean Girls, Moxie, Set It Off, Hidden Figures, Persepolis, Girl Interrupted, Confirmation, She Said, League of Their Own, Boys Dont Cry, Thelma & Louise, Hustlers, American Psycho, Fight Club, Easy A, Real Women Have Curves, Fire Island, The Color Purple, Joy Luck Club, North Country, Maria Full of Grace, Dallas Buyers Club, Brokeback Mountain, The Danish Girl

• Describe social problem related to gender

• How this problem impacts the lives of some character/s

• How feminist theory #1 would explain the problem
• Solutions theory #1 would propose to address the problem

• How feminist theory #2 would explain the problem
• Solutions theory #2 would propose to address the problem

• How feminist theory #3 would explain the problem
• Solutions theory #3 would propose to address the problem

up to +7.5 points (+0.75 describe social problem related to gender; +0.75 how problem impacts the character/s; +1 x 3 how each theory explains the problem; +1 x 3 solutions from each theory)

WORKBOOK #1 RUBRIC

PROMPT #1 (TOTAL / +5.5)

/+1.25 gender socialization experiences in childhood

/+1 how these practices function as borderwork

/+1 how practices reinforce a binary gender system

/+0.75 x 3 how this may contribute to inequalities/differential outcomes

PROMPT #2 (TOTAL /+6.5)

/+0.5 define hidden curriculum

/+0.5 how hidden curriculum differs from explicit lessons or rules

/+0.75 x 3 constructions of gender that are taught/reinforced in this educational setting

/+1 what these convey to kids about gender

/+0.75 x 3 specific institutional interests these practices served to your school

PROMPT #3 (TOTAL / +5.5)

/+1 experience with trying on gender

/+1.5 experiences with doing & displaying gender

/+1 some change within gender identification and/or performance

/+1 what might have influenced this change

/+1 inspirations of your gender expressions

PROMPT #4 (TOTAL / +7.5)

/+0.75 describe social problem related to gender

/+0.75 how problem impacts the character/s

/+1 how theory #1 explains the problem

/+1 solutions proposed by theory #1

/+1 how theory #2 explains the problem

/+1 solutions proposed by theory #2

/+1 how theory #3 explains the problem

/+1 solutions proposed by theory #3

____ citation penalties (-0.75 for each missing or incorrect citation; -6 if none; 8 total required)

____ late penalties (-0.75 per day late; or -7.5 for 10+ days late)

_____ formatting penalties (-3)

_____ -10% from any prompt with lengthy quotes, titles listed in responses, or redundant content