SOCIOLOGY OF CHILDREN

COURSE SCHEDULE

TH August 26: Class introduction and organization – Zoom meeting

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T 8/31: Education; Class; Inequality – Zoom meeting
Lareau, Annette. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. Chapter 1.

*Blackboard Assignment in Discussion Group*

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Th 9/2: Education; Class; Inequality
Lareau, Annette. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. Chapter 1.

*Blackboard Assignment in Discussion Group*

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T 9/7: *** No classes ***

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TH 9/9: Racism; Medical Sociology; Premature Birth

Dana-Ain Davis. 2019. Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth. New York: NYU Press. Introduction.

Tressie Mc Millan Cottom. 2019. “

https://time.com/5494404/tressie-mcmillan-cottom-thick-pregnancy-competent/

*Blackboard Assignment in Discussion Group*

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T 9/14: Racism; Medical Sociology; Premature Birth – Zoom meeting

Dana-Ain Davis. 2019. Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth. New York: NYU Press. Introduction.

Tressie Mc Millan Cottom. 2019. “

https://time.com/5494404/tressie-mcmillan-cottom-thick-pregnancy-competent/

*Group 1 Presentation*

*Blackboard Assignment in Discussion*

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TH 9/16: *** No classes ***

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T 9/21: Transgender Kids – Zoom meeting

Tey Meadow (2011). “Deep Down Where the Music Plays: How Parents Account for Childhood Gender Variance” Sexualities, 14(6): 725-747.

*Group 2 Presentation*

*Blackboard Assignment in Discussion Group*

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TH 9/23: Transgender Kids –

Tey Meadow (2011). “Deep Down Where the Music Plays: How Parents Account for Childhood Gender Variance” Sexualities, 14(6): 725-747.

*Blackboard Assignment in Discussion Group*

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T 9/28: The Welfare State; Reproductive Policies – Zoom meeting

Dorothy Roberts. 1999. Killing the Black Body. New York: Vintage Books. Chapter 4 *Group Presentation*

*Group 3 Presentation*

*Blackboard Assignment in Discussion Group*

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TH 9/30: The Welfare State; Reproductive Policies

Dorothy Roberts. 1999. Killing the Black Body. New York: Vintage Books. Chapter 4

*Blackboard Assignment in Discussion Group*

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T 10/5: Single-Parent Families and Welfare Policies – Zoom meeting

Rense Nieuwenhuis and Laurie C. Maldonado. 2018. “The triple bind of single-parent families: resources, employment and policies.”

*Group 4 Presentation*

*Blackboard Assignment in Discussion Group*

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TH 10/7: Single-Parent Families and Welfare Policies

Rense Nieuwenhuis and Laurie C. Maldonado. 2018. “The triple bind of single-parent families: resources, employment and policies.”

*Blackboard Assignment in Discussion Group*

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T 10/12: Mid-Term Exam review – Zoom meeting

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Th 10/14:

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=golz2d_m6dA

*Blackboard Assignment in Discussion Group*

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T 10/19: *** Mid-Term Exam ***

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Th 10/21:

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T 10/26: Undocumented children – Zoom meeting

Roberto Gonzales. 2015. Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America. California: University of California Press.

*Group 5 Presentation*

*Blackboard Assignment*

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Th 10/28: Undocumented children

Roberto Gonzales. 2015. Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America. California: University of California Press.

*Blackboard Assignment*

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T 11/2: Immigrant Families – Zoom meeting

María Villares-Varela. 2017. “Not helping out”: classed strategies of the (non) contribution of children in immigrant family businesses, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 40:10, 1758-1775, DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2016.1206591

*Group 6 Presentation*

*Blackboard Assignment*

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TH 11/4: Immigrant Families

*Blackboard Assignment*

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T 11/9: Child Poverty – Zoom meeting

Jeff Madrick. 2020. Invisible Americans. The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

*Blackboard Assignment*

*Group 7 Presentation*

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Th 11/11: Child Poverty

Jeff Madrick. 2020. Invisible Americans. The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

*Blackboard Assignment*

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T 11/16: Social Policies for Children and Families – Zoom meeting

Arza, Camila. 2018. “Cash Transfers for Families and Children in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile: Segmented Expansion or Universal Benefits.” Journal of International Comparative Social Policy. ISSN: 2169-9763 e-ISSN 2169-978X (Taylor and Francis).

*Blackboard Assignment*

*Group 8 Presentation*

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Th 11/18: Social Policies for Children and Families

*Blackboard Assignment*

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T 11/23: *** No classes ***

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Th 11/25: *** No classes ***

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T 11/30: Topic TBA – Zoom meeting

*Blackboard Assignment*

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Th 12/2: Topic TBA

*Blackboard Assignment*

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T 12/7: Review Final Exam – Zoom meeting

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Th 12/9: TBA

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T 12/14: *** Reading day ***

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Th 12/16: *** Final exam ***

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