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Explores the social, economic and political dimensions of inequality in American Society. Looks at how people of color, white women and gays and lesbians are systematically discriminated against in work, education, media and government programs. Analyzes whiteness as a social construct. Focus on social change and activism. Satisfies General Education Social Sciences requirement; satisfies College Multicultural requirement. Introductory.
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Explores the social and cultural aspects of health and illness. Emphasis is on the varied ways that illness is defined and treated throughout the world. Readings draw upon the disciplines of sociology and anthropology. Topics include witchcraft, faith-healing, and alternative medicine in the U.S. Intermediate.
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Examines the social and cultural construction of masculinity in the United States using the theories and methods of Anthropology. Topics include race, class, ethnicity, and religion; popular images of American men (e.g., movies, magazines, sports, jokes); relationship of US manhood to sexuality, war, and women. Some comparison to other cultures. Satisfies General Education Social Sciences requirement. Intermediate.
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Provides a broad and balanced overview of qualitative and quantitative research methods as used in sociological investigation. Introduces fundamentals of research design, data collection and analysis, measurement, and research ethics. Course projects include the critical assessment of existing research reports, designing of research projects, and reporting of findings. Intermediate.
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Examines different ways feminists analyze patriarchal society and women's place within it. Emphasis on debates within feminist theory, ranging from radical to post-modern. Selected topics of controversy include abortion, racism, prostitution, and nature of masculinity. Takes a multicultural perspective on women's experiences. Focus on ways feminists translate theory into practice. Satisfies Upper level writing requirement. Advanced.
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4.00 Credits
Examines sociological theories, primarily social constructionist, for explanations of the origins, meanings, implications, and ways of being different. Theories are applied to date on topics including crime, disabilities, and mental illness. Addresses basic questions such as: What does it mean to be labeled different? Who makes and enforces such social rules? Prerequisites: One Sociology (HDS) course and HDP 120/122-121/123 or HDP 124/126- 125/127. Advanced.
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Explores a range of recent writings by sociologists about children. Research reports describe children's lived experiences, interactions and activities. Theories derived from new approaches to sociology provide frameworks for interpreting research findings. Topics include children's classroom experiences, conversations, relations with others (children, parents, teachers and other adults), abilities, and constraints. Prerequisites: One Sociology (HDS) course and HDP 120/122-121/123 or HDP 124/126-125/127. Advanced.
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Explores constructions of gender in Europe from renaissance to present. Topics include: women in family, community, church, government; during renaissance, reformation, scientific, French, industrial, and Bolshevik revolutions. Explores evolving responses to marriage, family, work, the marketplace, science, war, peace. Satisfies General Education Global History, Civilization, and Culture requirement. Introductory.
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4.00 Credits
Explores how women from 1789 to the present have sought to construct their identity as equals in family, work, and nation amidst the forces of revolution, industrialization, scientific, and cultural change. Examines the way in which European women, along with their Asian and African sisters, have individually and collectively dismantled the legacy that biology determines destiny. Satisfies General Education Global History, Civilization, and Culture requirement. Introductory.
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Examines how the family has been defined and functioned. Topics include relationship of the family to public and private spheres; economic roles of family members; families and the state; the family in psychology and popular culture; effects of slavery; immigration and family life; impact of war; and the family in recent history. Satisfies General Education, Global History, Civilization and Culture requirement. Introductory.
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