Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1941. / "Texts evaluated in the study": p. xiii-xiv. Bibliography: p. 171-175.

Thesis (PhD(Education))--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

A review of sociological literature reveals a long history of the study of gender, and an increased popularity in the application of feminist theories and ideas to sociological research. As transmitters of the discipline, introductory-level textbooks have been heavily studied over the past quarter-century to assess the accuracy with which they portray the field of sociology. In order to update the literature available on the topic, this study analyzed the current cohort of top-selling, introductory-level sociology textbooks for coverage of feminist theory and gender issues. Each of the ten textbooks was read cover-to-cover and coded for both latent and manifest data using a coding sheet. The researcher found a notable increase in the incidences of both feminist theories and gender issues within the current cohort of textbooks. The specific treatment of each topic varied widely across books, and within each book the topics were presented one-dimensionally and were ghettoized to feminized chapters. Definitions of feminist theory and feminism within the books primarily described liberal feminism and little else, and discussions of both feminist theory and gender were most heavily featured in the gender and family chapters. Generally, the gender issues present in the textbook sample were mostly to do with women, and erased non-binary experiences of gender. Additionally, an intersectional approach to discussions of gender was applied about one-third of the time. This study concludes that the current textbook cohort is still far from the ideal model, and the feminization and marginalization of these topics is likely due to the textbook production cycle and the specific phenomenon of textual isomorphism.

Orientador: Fábio Kazuo Okada / Resumo: Esta dissertação analisa os contextos e justificativas do Ensino de Sociologia na Educação Básica, com foco na relação entre Trabalho, Sociedade e Adoecimento no mundo contemporâneo, marcada pela flexibilização/precarização das relações de trabalho. Foi realizada uma pesquisa qualitativa, tendo como fontes livros, livros didáticos e artigos científicos, por entendermos que esses são elementos essenciais para a compreensão da emergência da temática na sociedade contemporânea. Procuramos identificar a necessidade do ensino de Sociologia, e seu contexto histórico, de maneira a compreendermos sua importância enquanto instrumento refinado da cultura humana, que possui a especificidade de analisar o movimento que compõe a tessitura social, e basear uma análise de dois livros didáticos amplamente utilizados nas salas de aula no que tange ao mundo do trabalho, suas transformações e seu impacto sobre o sujeito que trabalha. A pesquisa constatou que a presença da Sociologia nos currículos possui uma história de intermitências, ora presente, ora ausente, mas que deve atuar enquanto elemento de desenvolvimento, oferecendo a possibilidade da imaginação sociológica (MILLS, 1969) como resposta à simplicidade dos discursos pseudoconcretos (KOSÍK, 1995) que povoam o senso comum na tentativa de compreender o movimento de flexibilização do mundo do trabalho (ANTUNES, 2000) e sua relação com o surgimento das ideologias defensivas (DEJOURS, 1992) contra o adoecimento. No entanto, os livros didáti... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This dissertation analyzes the contexts and justifications of the Teaching of Sociology in Basic Education with a focus on the relationship between Work, Society and Illness in the contemporary world marked by the flexibilization/ precarization of labor relations. Qualitative research was carried out, using books, textbooks, and scientific articles as sources, as we understand that these are essential elements for understanding the emergence of the theme in contemporary society. We sought to identify the need for sociology teaching and its historical context in order to understand its importance as a "refined instrument of human culture" that has the specificity of analyzing the movement that constitute the social fabric and to base an analysis of two widely used textbooks used in classrooms with regard to the world of work, its transformations and its impact on the subject who works. The research found that the presence of sociology in the curricula has a history of intermittences, which is sometimes present and others absent, but it ought to act as an element of development offering the possibility of sociological imagination (MILLS, 1969) in response to the simplicity of the pseudo-concrete discourses (KOSIK, 1995) that populate common discourse in an attempt to understand the flexibilization movement in the world of labor (ANTUNES, 2000) and its relationship with the emergence of defensive ideologies (DEJOURS, 1992) against illness. However, textbooks reflect little on th... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre