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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
Minkoff Introduction to theory and research on a specific form of social movement: national-level collective mobilizations organized for political change. Emphasizes how political, organizational, and cultural factors shape social movement emergence and development. Focuses on American activism, New Left, women’s movements, the abortion conflict, gay/lesbian activism, and Central American Peace movement.
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5.00 Credits
Pettit, Schwartz The family as a social institution. Historical changes and societal variation in family patterns. Changes over the life cycle. Alternative family forms.
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5.00 Credits
Scott Form, content, and functions of families through case studies of different countries. Family organization, including family structure, inheritance, sexual division of labor, and socialization with attention given to life-cycle stages.
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5.00 Credits
Explores cultures, identities, political economy, and popular mobilization in Latin America. Examines relations of power and production between social classes and ethnic groups, as well as ideologies and intellectual movements. Offered: jointly with SISLA 355.
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5.00 Credits
Burstein, Kiser Causes of political change in democratic countries, including public opinion, social movements, interest group activity, and party organization. Offered: jointly with POL S 356.
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5.00 Credits
The relations between religion, polity, economy, and social structure; in particular, the political, economic, and social impact of religious beliefs and organizations, as well as the social determination of these beliefs and organizations; the rise of secularism, the rationalization of modern life, and the emergence of political quasireligions.
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5.00 Credits
Social class and social inequality in American society. Status, power, authority, and unequal opportunity are examined in depth, using material from other societies to provide a comparative and historical perspective. Sociological origins of recurrent conflicts involving race, sex, poverty, and political ideology.
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3.00 Credits
Physiological and social bases of age and sex differentiation in human societies. The implications of age and sex distinctions for kinship, economic, and political structures. The relationship between age, sex, and other bases of social inequality.
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5.00 Credits
Black, Pitchford Interracial contacts and conflicts.
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5.00 Credits
Scott Interrelationships of ethnicity, business, unions, and the larger society. Examines financial and sociological structure of business and manufacturing sector, how this sector performs, and consequences of performance for selected ethnic groups in United States. Offered: jointly with AES 361.
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