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Gender Inclusivity In The Makeup Industry: Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity, Marjorie Briones
Gender Inclusivity In The Makeup Industry: Challenging Hegemonic Masculinity, Marjorie Briones
Sociology Student Work Collection
A rundown on gender inclusivity in the makeup industry and how it challenges hegemonic masculinity. Features a timeline on how makeup was normalized and/or stigmatized amongst men over time.
How Ai Is Socialized To Exhibit Bias, Andrew Treece
How Ai Is Socialized To Exhibit Bias, Andrew Treece
Sociology Student Work Collection
Artificial intelligence is becoming a more prevalent part of our society. This presentation seeks to explore some of the dangers of AI in relation to gender and racial bias from the sociological perspective.
Metal Music And Gender, Adam Fortney
Metal Music And Gender, Adam Fortney
Sociology Student Work Collection
Heavy metal music is experienced as a vibrant and empowering global community, but its history, structure, and practice reflect and recreate larger patterns of masculine hegemony within the metal world. As the metal ethos is centered around the practice and affirmation of social transgression, some are pushing the boundaries of metal itself to become a vehicle for critical social discourse around structural inequalities, including gendered hegemony.
Body Neutrality, Natalie Horn
Body Neutrality, Natalie Horn
Sociology Student Work Collection
This presentation discusses what body neutrality is, why it is helpful, and how to practice it. Body neutrality is an alternative to body positivity, aiming to take focus away from beauty. Accepting one's body can be hard, but body neutrality can help.
Societal Norms Within K-Pop, Gaby Dwidjaya
Societal Norms Within K-Pop, Gaby Dwidjaya
Sociology Student Work Collection
I talk about how various societal norms such as gender norms are portrayed in the K-POP industry as well as double standards and cultural appropriation that happens.
Women & Adhd, Alexa Curtis
Women & Adhd, Alexa Curtis
Sociology Student Work Collection
The majority of ADHD cases in women get missed of ignored. This is because of a mix of sexism within the medical research for ADHD and the way girls to socialized to behave and act.
Women In Computer Science, Jorge Aguilar-Flores
Women In Computer Science, Jorge Aguilar-Flores
Sociology Student Work Collection
For this week’s unit, Gender at work, I chose to focus my investigation on gender in the computing industry. More specifically, the goal of my research was to uncover some of the reasons behind the lack of female representation in the computer science world. As a minority in computer science, this investigation has been very personal to me because it has allowed me to learn more about some of the institutional oppressors that have been adopted over time to further marginalize minority populations and allow a certain demographic to flourish. As you may have learned from our previous discussions and …
Breaking The Fat Stigma, Samantha Hall
Breaking The Fat Stigma, Samantha Hall
Sociology Student Work Collection
Fat-shaming is seen as the last "acceptable" form of discrimination. Many people think just because someone is larger, that means they're unhealthy. This isn't always the case. This presentation hopes to teach people that weight doesn't always equate to health, and there are many underlying factors why some people may not fit American society's ideal body type.
Womanism: The Fight For Social Equality, Demetria Hawkins
Womanism: The Fight For Social Equality, Demetria Hawkins
Sociology Student Work Collection
This zine project will specifically address the topic of Womanism and its importance of inclusion of all women specifically women of color. Within the topic of womanism, there will be discussion of issues surrounding inclusiveness amongst race, class, and gender. As well key points to follow will be the way we intersect gender and racial discrimination in the workforce. Also, socioeconomic status including quality of life and health including mental and physical health will be important key points to follow. The scope of my research will feature pieces from scholarly articles, statistics, and visuals to tie my findings together. I …
Princesses & Superheroes, Tiara Fore
Princesses & Superheroes, Tiara Fore
Sociology Student Work Collection
As long as they have been around, princesses and superheroes have been the most prominent figures in children's media. This project focuses on how the gender expectations in this media affects children and how they participate in and see the world.
‘Maid In The Usa’: Immigrant Women, Domestic Labor And Double Alienation, Shadyar Omrani, Shadyar Omrani
‘Maid In The Usa’: Immigrant Women, Domestic Labor And Double Alienation, Shadyar Omrani, Shadyar Omrani
Sociology Student Work Collection
In the past three decades, as the economy of the industrialized countries has moved towards the growing Tech industry, middle-class women have found more opportunities to fill in white-collared job positions (McDowell, 2009). The increase in the rate of women’s participation in the labor market has made them less willing to do (or capable of doing) the housework and child/elderly care _ the tasks which are historically stereotyped as feminine (ibid). Therefore, a considerably growing trend in paid domestic labor is being introduced to formerly blue-collared and dominantly immigrant women (England, P.: 2005). The tasks which are regarded as “labor …
Impact Of Social Media On Feminism, Grace Verkuyl
Impact Of Social Media On Feminism, Grace Verkuyl
Sociology Student Work Collection
This project is about the influence of social media on feminism. It will include what online feminism currently is and what it strives to be, the positives of social media—fighting gender-based violence, change the conversation, social movements, and the intersection of technology and empowerment--, the negatives of social media—gender-based violence, “openness”, race, filtered data, and continuously being “on”—and, what to do now.
Pink Tax, Rachel Y. Thorsness
Pink Tax, Rachel Y. Thorsness
Sociology Student Work Collection
Abstract: The pink tax is the extra amount the average woman is charged for basic products or services. Even though these products contain the same ingredients as those marketed to men, there is a considerable difference in the amount women are paying. This tax is seen on personal care products, children toys, and auto-insurance.
Challenging Normative Gender Within The Domestic Sphere, Becki Waskey
Challenging Normative Gender Within The Domestic Sphere, Becki Waskey
Sociology Student Work Collection
This informational pamphlet explores the ways in which socialization drives behavior and normative gender standards in early childhood.
A Nordic Progression: Making Way Toward Gender Equality, Rachel Y. Thorsness
A Nordic Progression: Making Way Toward Gender Equality, Rachel Y. Thorsness
Sociology Student Work Collection
Gender inequality has continued to persist in the United States. This presentation captures how Nordic countries have closed 80% of the gender gap. By looking at the policies that have been successful in other countries, the United States may find solution in closing their own gender gap.
Gia Gunn: A Story Of Learning, Doing And Relearning Gender, Katrina Thulin
Gia Gunn: A Story Of Learning, Doing And Relearning Gender, Katrina Thulin
Sociology Student Work Collection
This presentation is about Gia Gunn, a transgender drag queen and how she, and all of us, learn, do and relearn gender regularly.
Postgender World: Is It Possible?, Sheridan Lantz
Postgender World: Is It Possible?, Sheridan Lantz
Sociology Student Work Collection
How can we make gender matter less? There is one approach that is steadily gaining popularity; the postgender approach is challenging the already steadfast gender stereotypes.
Masculinity And Femininity Culture Jam, Jaynetha Robinson
Masculinity And Femininity Culture Jam, Jaynetha Robinson
Sociology Student Work Collection
Everybody knows that “changing social definitions of womanhood and manhood affect self-perceptions, opportunities, and behaviors” (T SOC Sociology of Gender 2017 [course syllabus]). What everybody may not know is that when we buy femininity and masculinity as products we diminish our true identity and strengthen gender stereotypes.
Closing The Gender Pay Gap, Trevor Nhan
Closing The Gender Pay Gap, Trevor Nhan
Sociology Student Work Collection
An exploration of the gender pay gap issue within the United States, its causes, and possible solutions towards the overall objective of equality.
Social Change: Gender Neutral Restrooms, Kelly Tyrrell
Social Change: Gender Neutral Restrooms, Kelly Tyrrell
Sociology Student Work Collection
A comprehensive summary of gender neutral restrooms including the history, the opposition, and the importance of a movement that is ultimately a civil rights issue.
The Mean Girl Phenomenon, Mia Espinoza
The Mean Girl Phenomenon, Mia Espinoza
Sociology Student Work Collection
This presentation looks further into the "mean girl phenomenon", what it is and how it came to be. Also looks into how to deal with "mean girls" and at what age it is first noticed in young children. Why women are so competitive with each other is also analyzed.
Viewing Snapchat Filters Through A Sociological Lens, Mymy Nguyen
Viewing Snapchat Filters Through A Sociological Lens, Mymy Nguyen
Sociology Student Work Collection
This project focuses on the sociological analysis of Snapchat filters. As the popularity of the Snapchat app rises, so do the social effects of its filters. These filters may seem harmless and fun, but the underlying messages reinforce Western beauty standards and recreate many different stereotypes.
The Devaluation Of Gender, Kymberli Allen
The Devaluation Of Gender, Kymberli Allen
Sociology Student Work Collection
The goal of my project was to emphasize the need for society to stop placing such high importance on gender, and all the expectations gender warrants. I've created a stimulating visual packed with information from many sources, colorful imagery, and my own personal views of this pressing topic.
Fashion Without Gender, Grace Chapek
Fashion Without Gender, Grace Chapek
Sociology Student Work Collection
This project looks at the growing popularity of genderless fashion. From childhood to adulthood, fashion is used to express personal style and preferences, removing binary gender categorization from apparel allows for greater freedom and ease of expression for people of all genders.