QUESTION 1
(a) How do children in middle and late childhood organize sexuality, according to Thorne & Luria (1986)?
(b) How does this new understanding of this sexual organization challenge previous notions of social scientists related to childhood sexuality?
QUESTION 2
(a) In what ways and to what degree are transgender children more vulnerable than their cisgender peers?
(b) Why is this the case? (Travers 2018)
(c) What does Travers (2020) say about the “school-to-prison pipeline” and how does this relate to transgender children?
(d) According to Travers, what’s wrong with punishment?
(e) Do you agree with Travers’s stance on prisons and the prison industrial complex? Why or why not?
QUESTION 3
(a) How does Mountz (2016) use “the listening guide” to better understand the experiences of LBGT young people?
(b) What is unique about this method?
(c) What are its strengths and weaknesses?
(d) What did Mountz learn about her participants’ past experiences in girls’ juvenile justice facilities using this method?
(e) What is the “sexual abuse to prison pipeline” and how is it relevant to this article?
QUESTION 4
(a) What is meant by “heteronormativity” and how does “the heteronormativity of the public sphere” impact LGBTQ homeless youth?
(b) How do youth use their gender and sexuality as strategies in the absence of traditional supports?
(c) According to Robinson (2020) what are “queer street smarts,”, how are they used by youth?
(d) Why are “queer street smarts” important and what social structures are they combating? (Robinson 2020)
QUESTION 5
(a) How does silence contribute to racism in health promotion discourse?
(b) How does “colorblindness” function to contribute to shifting forms of racial domination in the United States?
(c) what does Barcelos mean by “…essentialized and deterministic “Latino culture”…”?
(d) What is a reproductive justice framework and how can that address youth racial inequalities? (Barcelos 2020)
QUESTION 6
According to the 2015 film, “The Mask You Live In,” (a) what is “the boy crisis”? (b) What are the implications of this crisis? (c) From a sociological, youth-centered, perspective why does this matter? (d) What are potential solutions to this problem as suggested in the film? (e) Given your knowledge of sociology, how effective do you expect these suggested solutions will be?
