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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Comparative study of power, social class, and status; conceptions of social structure and measurement techniques; explanations of social and occupational mobility; institutions and differential life changes.
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3.00 Credits
Overview of prevailing theories, research, methods, and analysis in globalization and social change. These include socioeconomic changes in capitalism and development, emergence of global social change agents: transnational corporations, financial institutions, and organizations, nongovernmental organizations; informalization of work, population, migration, social and revolutionary movements, gender, race ethnic, class, and sexuality.
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3.00 Credits
Overview of theories, research, and prevailing issues of complex organizations. These will include the power structure of the business community, emergence and structure of the bureaucrative organization, bases of authority, systems of formal and informal relations, unanticipated consequences of organizational structure, labor relations, total institutions and social movements as organizations.
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3.00 Credits
Overview of the theoretical approaches, substantive issues, and techniques of research and measurement in the study of American family life. Approaches include structural functionalism, conflict theory, and the feminist critique. Among the substantive topics are family roles and relationships, kinship, relationships of the family to other institutions and family change.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of cross cultural and historical variation in family structure. Methods and sources of information for research on family structure.
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3.00 Credits
(Same as Women's Studies 544) Examines major theories, themes, and research methods on the intersection of gender, race, class, and sexuality. Topics may include: construction of gender, race, class and sexual identities; work; social movements; intersection of family and work; parenting and reproduction; historical and cross national dimensions.
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3.00 Credits
Theoretical perspectives and empirical findings on the emergence and evolution of social problems. Examination of institutional responses and formation of social policy.
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3.00 Credits
Theoretical and empirical study of the origin, location and function of religious ideas and institutions in society.
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3.00 Credits
Overview of theories, research and prevailing issues of race and ethnic relations in contemporary societies. Discussions will include world expansion during colonialism, political economy of minority groups, class and gender issues in the global development.
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3.00 Credits
A seminar designed to survey the major sociological approaches to social movements and collective action. Emphasis will be on movement culture, social movement organizations and the social environment in which collective action occurs.
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