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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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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.