Exploration of current research controversies. Will review epistemological assumptions, analytic strategies, design and modes to assure credibility, plausibility. Will focus on data sources and analysis of data. Focus on impact of gender and scientific work. Includes scientific constructions of gender and women's careers in science.
Students select special problems to investigate on an individual or collaborative basis.
Studies may be conducted through readings, the collection or analysis of empirical data, or the development of conceptual analysis or of methodologies. Effects of modernization and migration on utilization of traditional and cosmopolitan, health care and on women's roles as providers will be discussed, and contemporary controversies will be analyzed. Sociological analysis of women's health status, roles as providers and patients, and the development of medical ideas about women from a historical perspective. Emphasis on 19th and 20th century developments in industrialized societies. Examines race and class relations and concerns of the state, science, and medicine.