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3.00 Credits
The interrelationships among population, technology, environment, and social organization. An examination of the origins and development of human ecology in sociology, and recent attempts to redefine the area. Special emphasis on current theoretical and research efforts focusing on the history and uses of ecological ideas.
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3.00 Credits
Compares social systems in different regions of the world. Examines models of comparative and historical sociology. Provides students with a background for conducting and evaluating comparative research. Treats such issues as socioeconomic development, group relations, and age and sex roles from a cross-cultural perspective.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of major sociological theories and research on inequality in modern societies. Examines the distribution of wealth, status, political power, and other valued resources; the effects of class, race, gender, and other modes of social differentiation; social mobility and the reproduction of inequality.
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3.00 Credits
Provides a survey of theoretical perspectives and current research on the role of technology in social development.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of social and institution processes and mechanisms of social control: socialization, role allocation, systems of social sanctioning, growth and dynamics of institutional systems of social control emphasizing its character at the institutional and societal level of analysis.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the processes and mechanisms of societal change. Attention centers on current theoretical, methodological, and research issues.
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3.00 Credits
A comparative introduction to the state, power and political processes in developing nations. Topics include theories of the state and state reformation, the relationship between the state and civil society, state violence, authoritarian regimes, processes of formal democratization, effects of globalization, impact of socio-economic inequality on governance.
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1.00 Credits
A critical examination of the nature, types, and societal reactions to deviant behavior. Special emphasis will be given to the process of stigmatization, the social construction of deviance as a social problem, and the effect of inequalities such as race, gender, class, and sexuality on the process of creating and applying deviant labels to individuals and groups.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on traditional and contemporary criminological theories with secondary emphasis on presentation of empirical studies employing the theories under study. Theoretical integration will be stressed.
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3.00 Credits
Examines sociological theories about social movements and their organizational structures and strategies, with an analysis of historical and contemporary nationalist, socialist, labor, womenÆs, civil rights, and environmental movements in the United States and around the world.
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