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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Foundation requirements, one or more Exploration courses, and upper-division standing. Study of crime from a sociological perspective and the emerging interdisciplinary approaches to crime. Topics include definitions and measurement of crime, types of crime and crime statistics, and social policy issues involving the criminal justice system and crime prevention. Not open for credit to students with credit in SOC 441I.
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3.00 Credits
Study of juvenile delinquency from a sociological perspective. Topics include a historical examination of delinquency, major theories of delinquency, the social context of delinquency, the societal reaction, social policies involving the juvenile justice system and youth related social problems.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of the G.E. Foundation. Sociological examination of race/ethnicity, gender and class in the U.S. Examines the affect of ideology, social interactions and social institutions on the creation and maintenance of racial, gender and class inequality.
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Prerequisite: Completion of GE Foundation requirements. Overview of the basic demographic variables (fertility, mortality and migration) and methods (vital statistics and census) to the study of international population problems. Examines the historical and current trends and problems in world population composition, growth and movement.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOC 100, 250, and one course in sociology. Review and critique of principles and essential features of classical and contemporary qualitative studies. Topics include research design, modes of participant observation, sampling and interview techniques, analysis and interpretation of data. Field assignments and individual research projects are required. (Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 2 hours.)
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOC 100, 250, 260 and one course in sociology. Review of social research methods with emphasis on research design, including operationalization, measurement, scaling, reliability, validity and sampling; techniques of data collection and analysis. Individual student research projects are required. (Lecture 3 hours, laboratory 2 hours) Letter grade only (A-F).
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOC 100. Social thought and historical forces leading to the emergence of sociology and an exploration of classical theories into the 1930s including such thinkers as Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Mead and Merton.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOC 100, 356 and one other course in sociology. Recommended: courses in the philosophy of science and research methods. Critical review of sociological thought from the 1930's to present. Major schools such as functionalism, interactionism, conflict, exchange, and system theory will be covered in depth and considered in relation to the nature of theory construction. Not open for credit to students with credit in SOC 456. Letter grade only (A-F).
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Foundation requirements and upper-division standing. Focuses on historical and contemporary immigration to the United States. Examines causes and consequences of immigration; forces and events that propel migrants to move; patterns of economic adaptation and political incorporation; role of social institutions in immigrant adaptation, and the process by which immigrants become ethnics. Letter grade only (A-F).
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Foundation requirements, one or more Exploration courses, and upper-division standing. Studies society's relationships with nature, including both cultural and structural dimensions. Integrates anthropological studies of pre-modern societies, together with cultural geography's emphasis on the meanings of place and environmental studies' contributionsLetter grade only (A-F).
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