|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
This course is an in-depth study of the major problems confronting society. Some of the problems studied include crime and violence, sexual inequalities and discrimination, health and illness, poverty and affluence, population and pollution, and crises in the institutions of the family, religion, economics, education, and the political system. Prerequisite: SOC101.
-
3.00 Credits
An examination of the causes and consequences of inequality historically, cross-culturally, in America and around the world, including difference in wealth, power and prestige. Also considered are the factors of race, ethnicity, age, and gender in social inequality. Prerequisite: SOC101.
-
3.00 Credits
This course examines societal definitions and social evolution of female and male roles with emphasis on the social construction of gender roles. Implications for social location, aspiration, achievement, behavior, deviance, illness, and health are studied from an historical and cross-cultural perspective. Prerequisite: SOC101.
-
3.00 Credits
This course is concerned with the use patterns, distribution, and social control of drugs and alcohol in modern society. Special emphasis is given to heavy alcohol and drug usage and its impact on such areas as the family, health, crime and delinquency, and work. Cross-cultural comparisons are considered together with intra-cultural factors such as socio-economic patterns, ethnicity, gender, and urbanization. The approach is interdisciplinary and includes contributions from anthropology, social psychology, as well as sociology. Prerequisite: SOC101.
-
3.00 Credits
This course examines the physical, social, and psychological problems of the aging in contemporary society. Emphasis is placed on the concept of Sociology 203 aging from the early twenties throughout the life cycle. Specific attention is given to the relationship of aging to the family, work, and the community in historical and cross-cultural contexts. Prerequisite: SOC101.
-
3.00 Credits
This course examines the origin, causes, history, and theories of crime. Special emphasis is placed on the criminal justice system from arrest to imprisonment, the careers of law enforcers and criminals, organized "white collar" crime, organized syndicate crime such as the Mafia, and the "victimless crimes" of prostitution, drug addiction, e tc. Prerequisite: SOC10
-
3.00 Credits
This course presents "deviance" as endemic to society. Consideration is given to processes of social labeling and stigmatization of "deviant" persons and groups, the development of "deviant" identity, together with an examination of the theories of social organization and disorganization which seek to explain "deviant" beh Prerequisite: SOC101.
-
3.00 Credits
This course underscores the varieties of human organization and how extraordinary groups illustrate major sociological principles and meaningful sociological concepts in concrete form. Prerequisite: SOC101.
-
3.00 Credits
This course applies sociology to the field of medicine: social and cultural factors in the etiology of illness and wellness, the sick role, physician patient relationship, the social organization of the hospital, medical careers, and health care. Prerequisite: SOC101.
-
3.00 Credits
This course traces the development of sociological thought in the Western world from Comte to contemporary social theorists, including Durkheim, Marx, Weber, Simmel, Parsons, Merton, Goffman, Garfinkle, and Collins. Prerequisite: SOC101.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|