Sexuality can be an effective tool in campaigning for social change. Critically discuss.

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Assessment Objectives: In the final assessment students should show they have engaged with this course’s content and conducted additional academic research relevant to the question/topic. Students are to select and respond to one question from the list below. Please include the question you have chosen on your essay – at the top of your essay or on your title page, if you have one. You must draw on a minimum of two weeks’ required readings, from the week’s 7-11 topics. Assignment Questions (choose one only): In what ways have queer communities demonstrated agency and demanded social change over time? Note: you may choose to focus on a specific community under the broad queer umbrella. What can movements pushing for social change around sexuality and/or gender identity learn from past social movements? Accounting for both structure and agency allows for the most complete analysis of sex work. Critically discuss. Critiques of medical models of sexuality and gender have been central to the sociology of sexualities. Discuss with reference to contributions from gay and lesbian studies, disability studies, and/or trans studies. Sexuality can be an effective tool in campaigning for social change. Critically discuss. Create your own question by drawing on at least two weeks’ required readingsfrom weeks 7 to 11. If you’d like help with forming your question, please consult your tutor. As with all of the other questions, make sure you indicate the question you have come up with at the top of your essay/on your title page. Sociologists investigate how sex and sexuality captures and reflects social norms and practices which change over time. This subject has considered theoretical and empirical research into how sexuality and sexual differences are understood, experienced, regulated, and expressed. In this second assessments students are to show that they have engaged with this course’s Weeks 7-11 content. To assist and extend students’ engagement with the course content, students are to do additional academic research by looking at a relevant contemporary issue/topic of your choice.