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Analyzes contemporary issues in stratification literature including class, status, power, sex/gender, identity, ethnicity, mobility, equality/inequality. Discusses differing theories, methodologies, and controversies according to student interests. Prerequisite: Classified graduate status in sociology; all others by instructor permission only. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Intended to introduce graduate students to diverse theories that explain gender relations in contemporary society. Provides a critical perspective on how we construct men's and women's identities and how the consequences of such a construction affect institutions, culture and society. Broken up in four sections: origins of gender inequality and issues surrounding research, theoretical perspectives, marginalized groups, and gendered issues in society. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Analyzes and critiques institutional structure. Studies shared understanding in groups, corporations, communities, institutions or societies and their hierarchical order. Prerequisite: Classified graduate status or instructor permission. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Examines advanced social psychology. Focuses on symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology and other recent developments in sociological social psychology, phenomenology, humanistic social psychology and critical reflexive sociology. Prerequisite: Open to classified graduate students in sociology, all others by instructor permission only. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Examines the complex relationship between human society and its surrounding environment. Theoretical perspectives are complemented by empirical research on environmental issues. Special attention is given to issues relating to the local and regional California environment. Analyzes environmental issues in a global context. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Analyzes and critiques terms and issues in social and sociological theory including levels of social reality and differing perspectives - positivism, idealism, realism, post-modernism, feminism, etc. Prerequisite: Classified graduate status in sociology; all others by instructor permission only. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Comprehensively reviews and evaluates major sociological theories of crime and deviance, methods of studying crime and deviance, current empirical research in crime and deviance, empirical testing of sociological explanations of crime and deviance, and empirical evaluation of crime and deviance control policy. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Contemporary Issues of the Middle East and North Africa. Discusses in-depth several contemporary issues such as the political dimension of Islam, population growth and food security, oil and development, regional conflict, national integration and forces of modernization, etc. The selection of the topics will depend on current events. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Examines the social constructs of race and ethnicity as "central organizing principles" in the making and development of our modern world, particularly in the U.S., and how they have interacted with class and gender to create and maintain cultural and material social inequalities. Evaluates competing and complementary theoretical frameworks explaining how race and ethnicity affect individual and group social-structural location (e.g., class position, educational attainment, and political power). Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Sociologically examines the family, with an emphasis on the contemporary American family. The numerous stages and variations of the family life cycle will be considered, with an emphasis on changes and the causes and consequences of the changes. Prerequisite: Classified graduate status or instructor permission. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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