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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 46B or Statistics 13 or the equivalent. Intermediate level course in statistical analysis of social data, emphasizing the logic and use of statistical measures, procedures, and mathematical models especially relevant to sociological analysis.-I, III. (I, III.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Labor andemployment issues in the contemporary United States with some use of historical and comparative materials. Topics will include strategies pursued by employers and employees, labor market discrimination and the role of social policies in shaping labor markets. GE Credit: SocSci, Wrt.-II. (II.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour or term paperor research project. Relation of social cleavages and social cohesion to the functioning of political institutions; the social bases of local and national power structures; social sources of political movement, analysis of concepts of alienation, revolution, ideology, ruling class, and elite.-I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; term paper or discussion. Social structural sources, institutional practices and microprocesses associated with illegality, evil, disease, immorality, disability, racial and class differences, citizenship, and the body. Special emphasis on expert knowledge and the production and management of social difference. GE credit: Wrt.-I, II. (I, II.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour or term paperor research project. Chronological age and social status; analysis of social processes bearing upon the socialization of children and adolescents. The emergence of "youth cultures." Generational successionas a cultural problem.-II. (II.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour or term paperor research project. The demographic and social structure of American society and population, with emphasis on ethnic and class groups as bases for political and economic interest. Attention to selected current social controversies.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; term paper or discussion-1 hour(instructor's option). Education and the social structure. Class size, curriculum, and economies of scale. Relations between families and schools in socialization; familial ascription and educational achievement. Education and industrialization. Organizational and occupational structure of schools. Discussion of selected controversies.-I. (I.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; term paper. Sociological approaches to study of historical and contemporary culture and mass media, and their structuring in relation to social actors, institutions, stratification, power, the production of culture, audiences, and the significance of culture in processes of change. GE credit: SocSci.-I, II. (I, II.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour or term paperor research project. Prerequisite: course 2. Everyday interaction in natural settings; ethnographic approaches to the understanding of social meanings, situations, personal identity and human relationships. Particular attention to the work of Erving Goffman and to principles of field observation and qualitative analysis. GE credit: Wrt.-I. (I.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour or term paperor project (instructor's option). Prerequisite: course 1 or the equivalent. Overview of attitudes toward, structural effects of, and methods of coping with death and death-related behaviors. Particular attention to social psychological aspects of death and dying, to death occupations, and to death rituals in various cultures. GE credit: Wrt.
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