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4.00 Credits
Presents a sociological discussion of children focusing on race, gender, class, and childhood age as factors that children respond to as they go through their daily lives. Issues such as peer-group relations and special problems unique to childhood and their policy implications are also explored. Topics may include foster care, juvenile justice, youth pregnancy, and child labor among other issues.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces selected theoretical perspectives on human service organizations, emphasizing defining organizational goals and effectiveness. Gives students the opportunity to become familiar with the nature of human service organizations, to compare these organizations to business and industrial organizations, to outline specific problems that human service organizations face, and to propose potential solutions.
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4.00 Credits
Provides a substantial overview of the sociology of health and illness. As no course can cover the full breadth of the field, we focus attention on several critical areas: society and disease; theoretical understandings of health disparities; medicalization and social control; medical professions and professionalization; stress, mental health, and illness. This course seeks to provide students with building blocks to explore other areas of the sociology of health and illness or medical sociology not covered in this course. Medical sociology is an important subfield of sociology with important links to public health, social psychology, psychology, and other medical fields. This course is taught with attention to this interdisciplinary perspective.
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4.00 Credits
Looks at why people choose to say things in different ways in different situations. In examining language behavior in its social context, this course outlines the linguistic constructs that allow conversation to occur, the types of variation that can occur in registers and dialects, and the possible reasons for choosing different linguistic varieties. Linguistic variation in relation to social context, gender, socioeconomic class, race, and ethnicity are examined.
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4.00 Credits
Designed to familiarize students with the Latino population in the United States. Reviews economic, political, and social factors that have contributed to the presence of Latinos in the United States. Sociological perspectives are used to understand the social, economic, and political characteristics of the various Latino groups and how these relate to larger social and economic processes in the U.S. society.
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4.00 Credits
Offers a community service course supported by a grant from a Northeastern alumnus. The primary objective is to assist students in learning about the causes, consequences, and possible solutions for social conflict in the Boston area. Attention is also given to helping students see beyond their customary social experiences. Students work in teams on projects that deal in some way with social conflict, broadly defined. Reflections occur through team interactions, journal summaries, and focused discussions in weekly seminars. Each student writes an analytic paper that ties in sociological issues; some teams produce sets of papers that combine to produce reports for their host organizations.
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4.00 Credits
Designed to assist students in learning about the causes, consequences, and possible solutions for social conflict by studying conflict abroad. Uses readings from sociology, political science, gender studies, education, and history about the nature of conflict and conflict resolution. Also designed to help students see beyond their customary social experiences and academic disciplines. Offers students an opportunity to work alone or in teams on projects that deal with social conflict, broadly defined. Requires community service in a specific organization in the country of stay. Uses team interactions, journal summaries, and focused class discussions to offer in-depth reflection on students' project work, team-based experiences, readings, and related social issues. Requires each student to write an analytic paper tying theoretical issues with their research experiences.
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1.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2006. Offers additional intermediate academic experience by exploring course-related topics in greater depth with the professor. Available only to courses approved by the University Honors Program.
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1.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2006. Offers additional intermediate academic experience by exploring course-related topics in greater depth with the professor. available only to courses approved by the University Honors Program.
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1.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2006. Offers additional intermediate academic experience by exploring course-related topics in greater depth with the professor. Available only to courses approved by the University Honors Program.
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