Social aspects of sexology 2500-PL-PS-FO8-09

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Term 2023L:

Social sexology focuses on that aspects of human sexuality which have critical meaning for functioning in society, such as sexual norms, stereotypes about sexuality and sex education. Social sexology is an interdisciplinary field- apart from psychological issues it includes the issues in the field of law, sociology, cultural anthropology and medicine. The course will be a workshop thus it will be focused on exercises in small groups, and individual, insight exercises.

Term 2024L:

Day 1

Norms in sexology. Who and what decided whether a particular behaviour is "normal"?

Day 2.

Sex and gender. Stereotypes concerning sex and gender and their social consequences. Functioning of transgender and intersex people. Minority stress among transgender and intersex people. Causes and correlates of transprejudice. How to counteract transprejudice.

Day 3.

Sexual orientation. What is sexual orientation and how do we measure it? How many sexual orientations really exist? Functioning of LGB+ people. Minority stress among LGB+ people. Causes and correlates of homophobia, biphobia, aphobia. How to counteract homophobia, biphobia, aphobia.

Prerequisites (description)

(in Polish) Podstawowa wiedza z zakresu psychologii społecznej

Course coordinators

Agnieszka Łyś

Main fields of studies for MISMaP

psychology

Type of course

elective courses

Mode

Classroom

Learning outcomes

Knowledge
Students will know selected studies in the field of social sexology, related to the issues discussed during the course. They will be able to explain the basic notions used during the course like e.g. partnership norm or minority stress.
Skills
Students will be able to critically analyse scientific articles on sexuality, noticing strong and weak points of studies described in it. They will be able to take a critical stance toward clichés about sexuality, present in media.
Social competences
Students will be able to take a non-judgemental and non-stigmatizing look at the perspective from which non-heterosexual people, as well as others who somehow differ from the majority (e.g, people with disabilities), see intimate relationships. Students will be able to plan the actions aiming at reducing stereotypes and prejudices concerning gender and sexuality, like e.g. homonegativity or transnegativity.

Bibliography

Term 2023L:

None

Term 2024L:

Baran, D. (2024). Opiniowanie sądowo-seksuologiczne osób doświadczających dysforii/niezgodności płciowej w sprawach o ustalenie płci w trybie art. 189 k.p.c. In A. Depko & A. Krasowska (Eds.), Seksuologia sądowa - tom 4 Opiniowanie w sprawach cywilnych i nieletnich. Warszawa: PZWL
Bednarek, J., Laskowski, P., Matuszewski, S., Mikołajewski, Ł., & Sobczak, M. (Eds.). (2022). Cała siła, jaką czerpię na życie. Świadectwa, relacje, pamiętniki osób LGBTQ+ w Polsce. Kraków: Karakter
Bogaert, A. (2012). Understanding asexuality. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
Dragan, W., Iniewicz, G. (red.) (2020). Orientacja seksualna. Źródła i konteksty. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar
Grabski, B., Mijas, M., Dora, M., Iniewicz, G. (2020). Dysforia i niezgodność płciowa. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Lekarskie PZWL
Iniewicz, G., Mijas, M., Grabski, B. (red.) (2012). Wprowadzenie do psychologii LGB. Wrocław : Wydawnictwo Continuo
Izdebski, Z. (2012). Seksualność Polaków na początku XXI wieku. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Kościańska, A. (2014). Płeć, przyjemność i przemoc. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo UW
Kościańska, A. (2018). Zobaczyć łosia. Historia polskiej edukacji seksualnej od pierwszej lekcji do internetu. Wołowiec: Wydawnictwo Czarne
Kowalczyk, R., Tritt, R. J., Lew-Starowicz, Z. (red.) (2016). LGB Zdrowie psychiczne i seksualne. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Lekarskie PZWL
Lew-Starowicz, M., Lew-Starowicz, Z., Skrzypulec, V. (2017). Seksuologia. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Lekarskie PZWL
Nawrocka, Z. (2013). Gwałt. Głos kobiet wobec społecznego tabu. Warszawa: Książka i prasa
Wąż, K. (red.) (2019). Obyczajowość seksualna Polaków. Perspektywa interdyscyplinarna. Kraków: Oficyna Wydawnicza Impuls

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