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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with American political institutions, political organizations, pressure groups, and the public's participation in political processes. Discussion focuses on current political issues from a sociological perspective.
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3.00 Credits
The primary focus of this course is on the interrelationships among business and production organizations, labor interests and struggles, and the state and state policies, from various theoretical and historical perspectives. In addition to critical evaluation of conventional political-economic perspectives, the course will examine recent sociological work on the state, the labor movement, and industry.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a detailed examination of major events and processes of the 1960's, especially the civil rights struggle, the Vietnam War and antiwar movement, and the counter culture, from a historical-sociological perspective that features the interplay of social change and social movements.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the historical development of work and employment relations in the United States. Topics covered include some of the persistent challenges of work, such as the balance between work and family life; inequalities in wages and employment; the struggle to find meaningful work; and the opportunities and challenges presented by the new economy, marked by a combination of high-end professional and technical occupations and low-wage service jobs.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the cultural and structural mechanisms that reproduce gendered outcomes in the workplace. It addresses occupational segregation, the wage gap, sex differences in promotions, unpaid family work, explanations of inequality, strategies for change and resistance to change, and the intersections of gender, race, and class.
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3.00 Credits
This course explains why and how social structure influences the distribution of health and illness and illustrates how the medical care system is organized and responds.
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3.00 Credits
This course represents the study of social psychology from a sociological perspective. Specifically, it is an analysis of the influence of groups and the individual on each other, including the study of norms, group pressure, leadership, motivation, and social personality.
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3.00 Credits
There have been scores of social movements in the U.S. and around the world in this century. This course explores the origins and organization of social movements, the dilemmas and challenges facing social movements, the relationship between social movements and political institutions, and the role of social movements in causing social change.
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3.00 Credits
This course critically examines the history, organization, strategies, ideology, opponents, culture, and future prospects of the global justice movement.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the interrelationship between the legal order and the social order. Limitations of civil and criminal law for conflict management and for implementation of social policy are considered.
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