AP/SOCI 3500 6.00
Publics and Privates
Examines the concept of the public and private spheres; their emergence within differing time periods and/or regions; normative effects of the public sphere; and transformations and proliferations of public and private. In addition to discussing related concepts including citizenship, individualism, collectivity, family, sex(uality), labour, and state economies, the course considers sociological patterns that have reproduced uneven public/private divisions.