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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour; term paper.Prerequisite: course 1 or 2 or 3, and upper division standing. The study of the history and power of the modern corporation; corporate organization; politics, the state, and the corporation; labor unions and the labor process; competition, regulation and international markets; the multinational and conglomerate corporation; and mass markets and consumerism.-I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour or term paperor research project (instructor's option). Systems of social ranking, theories of stratification; power, prestige, culture, and styles of life of various social classes; social mobility and its consequences for social structure.-I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour or term paperor research project. Selected technological and social factors. Preconditions of economic development and industrialization. Social, political, and cultural issues at various levels of economic development. Major historical differences and major current trends. Emphasis either on highly industrialized countries or on less developed countries. GE credit: Wrt.-II. (II.)
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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. Theories of city origins. Analysis of the historic process of urbanization and of varying city types. Comparison of American and European experience of metropolitanization, counterurbanization, and neighborhood change. Consideration of competing theories of urban growth and change and competing visions of the urban future. Offered in alternate years.-II. (II.)
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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; course 143A recommended. Critical dissection of the "loss of community" issue. Analysisof the organization of primary ties in the city, of the culture of urban public life and of the learning of city skills. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: Wrt.-III.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour or term paperor research project. Prerequisite: advanced standing in the social sciences or one year of course work in agricultural and environmental sciences. Development of agriculture as a major enterprise in modern society with the concomitant reduction in the labor force and family farms. Analysis of issues including mechanization, migrant labor, corporate farming, and public resource policy. Offered in alternate years.-(I.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour. Prerequisite:course 1; upper division standing. Introduction to theories and contemporary issues in the sociology of development. Topics such as urbanization, rural/ agrarian change, class, status groups, international division of labor, sectoral shifts, international capital, informal economy, gender, and political processes are analyzed within a comparative-historical framework. GE credit: Div, Wrt.-II. (II.)
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4.00 Credits
Seminar-4 hours. Prerequisite: course 1; upper division standing. Political-economic analysis of women and work during the process of socioeconomic change in the world with particular attention to the family/household context. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: Div, Wrt.-(II.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour or term paperor research project. Relationship between social structures and religions. The social setting of the major world religions. Religious innovators and institutionalization (churches, sects, cults). Secularization in the modern world and the rise of secular ideologies. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.-II.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; discussion-1 hour or term paperor research project. Sociological theories and concepts applied toward understanding East Asian society. Emphasis on the political structure, stratification, and economy in China and Japan. Analysis of historical and contemporary similarities and differences. Offered in alternate years.-(III.)
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