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