Week 4
Readings:
Sweet: “The Sociology of Gaslighting”
Stark: “Gaslighting, Misogyny, and Psychological
Oppression”
Abramson: “Turning Up the Lights on Gaslighting”
Cole: “Goffman’s Front Stage and Backstage
Behavior”
Ruiz and Ruiz with Janet
Mills: “The Dream of the First Attention: The Victims”, “The Dream of the
Second Attention: The Warriors”, “The Dream of the Third Attention: The
Masters”, and “Becoming a Seer: A New Point of View” in The Fifth Agreement: A
Practical Guide to Self-Mastery Movie: “Changeling” (2008)
Topic: Gaslighting
Week 5
Readings:
Cooley: “Looking Glass Self”
A&E: Ch. 14 (Section on Bourdieu)
Bourdieu: Distinction
Excerpt Movie: “Green Book” (2018)
Topic: Assumptions
and Judgements
Week 6
Readings:
Snow: “Identity Work Among the Homeless: The
Verbal Construction and Avowal of Personal Identities”
Callero: “The Sociology of the Self”
Ridgeway: “Framed Before We Know It: How Gender
Shapes Social Relations”
Krane: “Living the Paradox: Female Athletes
Negotiate Femininity and Muscularity”
Peters and Phelps: “Body Image Dissatisfaction
and Distortion, Steroid Use, and Sex Differences in College Age
Bodybuilders”
Rye and Meaney: “The Pursuit of Sexual Pleasure”
Johnson and Weigert:
“Frames in Confession: The Social Construction of Sexual Sin” Movies: “Barbie” (2023),
“Embrace” (2016), and/or “Bigger, Stronger, Faster*” (2008)
Topic: The Self,
Gender, and the Body
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