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4.00 Credits
This course examines conservative, liberal, and radical perspectives on class, poverty, and race, and will allow a critical assessment of the social and political implications of the growing congruity between urban poverty and race.
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4.00 Credits
Patterns of racial and ethnic relations, with particular emphasis upon minorities in the United States.
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4.00 Credits
Examines current debates about the impact of globalization on political- economic, social, and cultural arrangements around the world, investigating how people are affected by it, and what forms resistance to these developments is taking in the emerging anti-globalization movements.
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Examines significant instances of economic, political, cultural, and social change in contemporary Latin America. Employs various perspectives to illuminate such phenomena as changing social structures, industrialization, social movements, the states, multinationals, the military, and international pressures.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys major instances of economic, poltical, cultural, and social change in the Middle East, historically and in the contemporary period. Assesses changing social structures, social movements, the role of Islam, and other topics in Iran, Egypt, and Turkey, among others.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to the sociological study of globalization. Survey of principal theories and debates in globalization studies with a focus on economic, political, and cultural transnational processes, gender/race/class and globalization, transnational social movements, and local-global linkages.
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4.00 Credits
Covers topics in third world studies, to be chosen by the instructor, including such issues as social movements, race/ethnicity/nation, culture, development and globalization, and gender and sexuality, among others, in any of the regions the third world.
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4.00 Credits
Social and cultural bases of the political process; the study of power and authority as reflecting the interplay of interests and values; analysis of continuities and discontinuities in the democratic political system.
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4.00 Credits
Causes, dynamics and consequences of protest. American social movements, particularly labor, civil rights, student and women's movements, are studied as cases in movement development. Documentary and fiction films help illustrate analytic themes and historical moments.
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4.00 Credits
What will the world of the future look like? This course focuses on the capacity of the social sciences to predict. Many authors believe that predictions in this field are impossible. Others have detected observable paths to the future.
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