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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
The family is an important social institution that profoundly affects us. This course is designed to study the diversity of families and explore the historical changes in marriage patterns. Topics covered include dating and mate selection, family structures, marital satisfaction, parenting, divorce and remarriage, alternative lifestyles, and the diversity of meaning that the institution has in the United States and cross-culturally.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Initiatives to establish community are what make the United States what it is today. This class explores how voluntary association, the visions of utopian planners, and the networking of migrants and minorities have all contributed to this country's political and spatial peculiarities. It also asks students to consider whether "community" is stillpossible today, and, if so, at what cost? Through service learning excursions, students will get their own answers to these questions.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Intensive investigation of a selected topics of current interest in sociology. The specific subject matter may vary from year to year, reflecting the interests of both faculty and students. The courses are designed for all students and are taught at an introductory level.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Critical examination of the theoretical foundations of the study of society and culture. Historical evolution of social and anthropological thought as well as contemporary analysis. Prerequisite: SOC 1910.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
90% of urbanization taking place today is in the developing world - Latin America, Africa, and Asia. How can Western classical theories of urbanization developed in the 19th and 20th Centuries inform contemporary experiences of migration, individualism, social control, social movements and redevelopment in non-Western countries in the 21st Century? Lectures, reading and case studies from local authors provide ample opportunity for cross-cultural comparisons.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Examination of class, status, and power; their origin, change, and interrelationship with other aspects of society. Societal distribution of resources and rewards. Analysis of forces influencing individual and group mobility.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Relationship of culture and society to religion. Analysis of social, political, and economic forces with religious belief, expression, and practice.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Applied to America's system of schooling, justice as an ideal has inspired a meritocratic system, and justice as a goal has offered up education as "the great equalizer."Yet these related pursuits have, arguably, proven illusory. Sociologists, educators, students, and other concerned citizens continue to tweak our existing systems, to correct for past disadvantages, to achieve new notions of justice. Through lectures, readings, fieldtrips, and service-learning, this course follows these developments in education, with an eye on what are our ideals, and what it means to fail at achieving them.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
What does it mean to be modern? This course explores the political and social dynamics of creating a modern state in China and Japan in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Focusing on historic intiatives that led to each society's transforma-tion, we examine the push for industrialization, nationhood and the ideal citizen. Readings draw on the perspectives of ordinary people responding to state-sponsored social change.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Who fights for change? Why? And how? Answers tend to vary with historical circumstance. Increasingly today we find trans-border problem solving to deal with problems that cross borders - problems like environmental degradation, migrant rights, and criminal or health issues. This course looks at the transfor-mation of old and the emergence of new institutions as people try not only to cope but realize their vision of a "just" society.
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