SOCIOLOGY Self & Society: The Individual in the Community Professor: Barbara Vann In this class we will consider the classroom as community and the community as classroom. The focus is on social interaction, especially in terms of how this is affected by race/ethnicity, social class, and gender. Part of the course learning will result from participating in community service, with the goal of developing in students the capacity to be “women and men for others,” with a strong sense of social justice. The course is constructed around readings that will help students understand the life situations of those with whom they interact and the social structural factors which produce and perpetuate these circumstances. Barbara Vann, associate professor and chair of the department of sociology, received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Arizona in 1987 and came to Loyola, where she has been ever since. Her areas of expertise include the intersection of gender, race, and class; sexuality; identity; and disability. She directs Loyola’s Summer Study Abroad Program in Prague, where she is involved in research on Czech identity post-communism, and on intellectual disability. She also teaches sociology at the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women. | |