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3.00 Credits
A survey of the social structure and organization of American society, with special reference to recent social changes. The character, structure, values, and ideology of American social movements are examined from a sociological perspective. Topics include urban demographic changes and other population trends, as well as changes in the conduct of work, family life, and recreation.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: three credits of sociology. Resource depletion and the deterioration of the environment. Relationship to lifestyles, individual consumer choices, cultural values, and institutional failures. Projection of the future course of American society on the basis of the analysis of scarcity, theories of social change, current trends, social movements, government actions, and the futurist literature.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCY 100 or SOCY 243. A study of the family and population dynamics. Discussion covers issues of fertility (such as teenage pregnancy, the timing of parenthood, and the determinants and consequences of family size) as they relate to family behavior (such as marital patterns, the use of child-care options, and the relationship between work and the family). Issues of policy as related to demographic changes in the family are also considered.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCY 100. An examination of changing concepts of the interaction between the individual and society. Analysis employs the framework of classical functional, conflict, and social constructivist theories, as well as the context of rapidly changing communication technology and globalization. Topics include the construction of social order; the role of trust in social interaction; and work, power, social organization, and the social self. Selected readings are taken from the sociologies of work, gender, postmodernism, globalization, and human rights. Persistent social problems, such as poverty and social inequality, are analyzed. Students may receive credit for only one of the following courses: BEHS 312, SOCY 311, or SOCY 313.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: three credits of sociology. Also offered as WMST325. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: SOCY325 or WMST325. Institutional bases of gender roles and gender inequality, cultural perspectives on gender, gender socialization, feminism, and gender-role change. Emphasis on contemporary American society.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: three credits of sociology. Impact of technology on agriculture, the industrial revolution, politics, economics, and health, education and welfare, as these affect changes in social organizations. The development of small cities, the better utilization of energy, the use of wealth and abundance and its relation to the division of labor, and the role of technology in shaping of new forms of political and economic organizations.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: permission of department. Formerly SOCY378. This course permits sociology honor students to undertake a program or reading on a particular problem in sociology or a subfield therein. The reading will be done under the supervision of a member of the sociology faculty. Required of sociology honor students.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCY380. Formerly SOCY388. This course permits sociology students to define a particular problem in sociology or a subfield therein and to develop a research plan for use as a thesis topic. The work will be done under the supervision of a member of the sociology faculty.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCY381. Formerly SOCY389. Student research under the direction of a member of the sociology faculty, culminating in the presentation and defense of a thesis reporting the research.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Prerequisite: permission of department. Junior standing.
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