SOCI 326 - Autoethnography and the Life Course

FC SSCI CD

4 credits
What can individuals’ narratives reveal about the blueprints for society and mechanisms of social change? This course provides a comprehensive examination of life course sociology, including its major theoretical bases, key concepts, and complementary modes of inquiry such as autoethnography and life story interviewing. Contemplating how the meaning of ‘growing up’ and the experience of ‘aging’ changes with time, students will consider how age is a social construct that acts as a demographic characteristic of individuals, a guidepost for the timing of normative life events, and a stratifying feature of society that shapes unequal distributions of resources in later life.
Prerequisites & Notes: An introduction to Sociology course.