Where Will the Millennials Take Us? A Gender Structure Analysis of Identities, Marital Plans andnBeyond

Seminario con la prf.ssa Barbara Risman, University of Chicago
20 giugno 2016
21 giugno 2016

Ore 14, sala riunioni, III piano, Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Trento

This talk has three major goals:

First, to provide a brief overview of the theoretical framework for analyzing  gender as a social structure.
Second, to present data ona variety of American samples of Millennials and their  positionality vis a vis the gender structure, with particular attention to their views of marriage and relationships. Finally,  to argue that in order to reach a just world with full equality we must construct postgender society.

Professor Barbara Risman has been Head of the Department of Sociology at the University  of Illinois at  Chicago, President-Elect (2014-2015) of the Souther Sociological Society, Vice-President Elect of the American Sociological Association. After a year fellowship at Stanford she is now Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology here in Trento.