Universität Wien

190081 SE Education and Gender (2022W)

Doing gender@university: auf der Spur alltäglicher Geschlechterkonstruktionen im universitären Alltag

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 19 - Bildungswissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Achtung: Termin am 10.12. online via BBB (siehe Moodle)

Saturday 22.10. 09:45 - 14:45 Hörsaal 1 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Friday 09.12. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum 4 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Saturday 10.12. 09:45 - 15:45 Seminarraum 4 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Friday 20.01. 13:15 - 16:30 Seminarraum 4 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Saturday 21.01. 09:45 - 15:45 Seminarraum 4 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Following our everyday knowledge we take it for granted that there are two and only two sexes; that everybody belongs either to the one or to the other sex category; and that membership in one or the other sex category is natural and can be identified by inspecting the genitals. Gender studies and the sociology of gender confront this everyday knowledge with a different perspective and argue that gender is a social construction and therefore is (re)produced in social interaction. In this perspective gender is nothing we ›have‹ but something we ›do‹ (›doing gender‹) and under certain conditions can also stop doing (›undoing gender‹). The course will introduce to the concept of doing and undoing gender and provide the means to systematically observe and analyze the social construction, reconstruction and/or deconstruction of gender using the example of the university. The following areas will be taken into account: 1. student life, 2. science, 3. university. Using empirical methods, the students should explore processes of (un)doing gender/doing difference in their own setting of the university. They should critically reflect everyday knowledge of gender, identify practices of differentiation and think of ways to challenge and overcome them.

Assessment and permitted materials

Interactive design of the seminar: In addition to the lecturer's input, students acquire knowledge by reading and discussing texts (including questions to the text). Based on the methods of peer instruction or jeopardy, central theoretical concepts related to education and gender will be actively reflected and interpreted again and again in the course. Furthermore, the processes of (un)doing gender/difference will be explored in three small empirical exercises (student university life, science, university) using qualitative methods.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Active participation, writing reading notes, empirical research, final reflection.

Assessement Standard:
Active Participation 10 %
Reading Notes 20%
Empirical Research 30 %
Final Reflection 40 %

Grades:
1 100-90 Pkt
2 89-80 Pkt
3 79-70 Pkt
4 69-60 Pkt
5 <60 Pkt

Examination topics

Reading list

Fenstermaker, S. & West C. (2001): Doing Difference" revisited. Probleme, Aussichten und der Dialog in der Geschlechterforschung. In: Heintz (Hrsg.): Geschlechtersoziologie. Wiesbaden: 236-249.

Gildemeister, R. (2008): Doing Gender: Soziale Praktiken der Geschlechter-unterscheidung. In: Becker & Kortendiek (Hg): Handbuch der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung. Theorie, Methoden, Empirie. Zweite Auflage. Wiesbaden: 137-145.

Goffman, E. (1994): Das Arrangement der Geschlechter. In: Ders.: Interaktion und Geschlecht. Hg. von Knobloch & Kotthoff. Frankfurt a. M. & New York: 105-158.

Halkic, B. (2017): I think we’re equal. We’re just students. Zur Bedeutung von Geschlecht an einer vietnamesischen Universität. In: Pfaff-Carnecka (Hg.): Das soziale Leben der Universität. Bielefeld: 155-181.

Hirschauer, S. (2014): Un/doing Differences. Die Kontingenz sozialer Zugehörigkeiten. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 43(3): 170-191.

Katila, S. & Meriläinen, S. (1999): A Serious Researcher or Just Another Nice Girl? Doing Gender in a Male-Dominated Scientific Community. In: Gender, Work & Organisation 6(3): 163-173.

Kessler S. J. & McKenna W. (1978): Gender. An Ethnomethodological Approach. Kapitel 1: The Primacy of Gender Attribution. New York: 1-20. Münst,

A. S. (2008): Hierarchie, Fachkompetenz und Geschlecht in Lehrveranstaltungen: Ergebnisse einer ethnographischen Teilnehmenden Beobachtung. In: Zimmermann et al. (Hg.): Perspektiven der Hochschulforschung. Wiesbaden: 179-196.

Nentwich, J. C. & Kelan, E. K. (2014): Towards a Topology of ‘Doing Gender’: An Analysis of Empirical Research and Its Challenges. In: Gender, Work & Organisation 21(2): 121-134.

Van Den Brink, M. & Stobbe, L. (2009): Doing Gender in Academic Education: The Paradox of Visibility. In: Gender, Work & Organisation 16(4): 451-470.

West, C. & Zimmerman, D. (2002): Doing Gender. In: Fenstermaker & West (Hg): Doing Gender, Doing Difference. New York & London: 3-23.

Association in the course directory

WM-M14

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