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3.00 Credits
This course undertakes a survey of gender systems across societies. An examination of gender in the United States, Latin America, Africa, Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, and other countries reveals the extent to which gender is a result of social shaping. Diversity across countries in the way that gender is structured into economic, religious, family, and political institutions is a major focus.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to a sociological approach to studying organizations. Organization studies include business firms, governmaent agencies, health providers, trade unions, political parties, religious bodies, and voluntary associations. Organizations are social structures invented to accomplish complex tasks in modern society. They are designed, goal-oriented systems with structures and routines but also are engaged in dynamic processes of organizing and re-organizing. Structure and process of organizing will be analyzed in the context of cultural-institutional environment of a society.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will learn about various types of violent crimes in both North American context and on a comparative basis with European violent crime rates. The course will expose students to theoretical approaches to understanding the use of violence in crime and to a variety of forms of violent crimes including occult crimes, serial killers, gang violence and crimes, and domestic terrorism among others. Students will gain an understanding of the root causes of these crimes and of the various control approaches that have been tried including gun control.
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3.00 Credits
Religion and Terrorism is an undergraduate course that will explore the relationship between religious movements and terrorism. After a brief examination of various definitions of terrorism, the course will analyze whether violence motivated by religion always fits within these definitions. Included in the class will be a detailed examination of religious terrorism, and the tactics and strategies employed by terrorists who are motivated by religion. Finally, the class will conclude with an in depth analysis of religiously motivated terrorism in the modern world.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of society's hierarchical groupings of people on the basis of biological or social differences: economic/class, race/ethnic, sex/gender to accord them status according to these groupings. Analysis of how these groupings become embedded in social structure to form the bases of inequality in society.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the different roles prescribed to individuals on the basis of gender. Socialization experiences at different stages in the life cycle. Consequences of gender roles for home and family life, work roles, achievement, mental health, and physical health.
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3.00 Credits
How various components of society are rearranged, reorganized, and reconfigured in a variety of cultures, incuding the United States, the former U.S.S.R., Germany, and Iran. Topics include breakdown of rural life and growth of cities; the undermining of authority systems, moral codes, and established values; the stimulation of discontent; cultivation of new tastes and aspirations; formation of new standards of living; changes in family structure, class structure, religion, education, and industry.
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3.00 Credits
A proseminar treating conflict at various levels of social life as inherent in the social process, but also as increasingly hazardous in a pluralistic yet interdependent world in the nonviolent management and resolution of conflict, and related issues of justice. Some applied projects (field work, role-playing exercises, etc.). Final course in the Peace and World Order Studies subconcentration. Faculty.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of cities of Europe as a cradle of the processes of modernity, transition to capitalism, centralization of modern social structures and institutions. Examination of the city as scene and product of complex struggles for domination, and as a laboratory for balancing spontaneous and uncontrollable processes of growth against attempts to control the environment through planning.
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