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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate This course explores the politics of "difference" by examining multiculturalism in relationship to identity, culture, nationhood, and social justice. Particular attention is paid to how the concept of multiculturalism articulates notions of culture, knowledge, and power. The course has a strong theoretical orientation and requires students to assess and apply complex social theories of identity and difference to contemporary issues of inequality. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: three courses in sociology including SOCY-210, SOCY-351, or SOCY-354, or graduate standing.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate This course provides a practice-centered introduction to the sociology of language, an emergent approach to analyzing the production of meaning in social life. It explores the analytical power of simple inductive analysis, ethnomethodology, and poststructural discourse analysis. This course reflects the interdisciplinary ferment of contemporary social research and guides students in conducting cutting-edge, qualitative research. Prerequisite: SOCY-320 or graduate standing.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate Provides students with a broad overview of the varied sociological approaches to the field. Examines changing job structures, compensation patterns, labor market reorganization, rise of temporary workers, trends in organized labor, immigration impacts, and labor-management relations. Themes include post-Fordist labor relations, politics of flexible accumulation, consequences of industrial restructuring, trends in the post-industrial economy, and NAFTA.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate The study of gender and family as basic principles of the social order and primary social categories. Introduces students to the theories, data sources and applications of family structures and gender relationships in the United States and cross-culturally. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: graduate standing or three courses in sociology.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate Examines the variety of conceptual frames that social scientists use in analyzing social policies and provides a basis for their selection. A second part deals with the detailed analysis of case studies and introduces practitioners who contributed to them. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: graduate standing or three courses in sociology.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate Examination of the current child poverty situation in the United States. Considers how poverty is defined, the numbers of poor children and causes of child poverty; anti-poverty policies such as the New Deal, the War on Poverty, and welfare reform law; and current proposals to reduce child poverty such as child care and training for the poor, job creation, and tax policy. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: SOCY-100 or SOCY-150 or graduate standing.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate Prerequisite: permission of instructor and department chair.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate Comparative study of major theorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Usually offered every fall.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate An analysis of modern sociological theories and major schools of social thought. Problems of theory construction. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: SOCY-610.
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