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A study of the application of statistics in social research, utilizing available computer technology. Descriptive and inferential statistics will be taught. This course fulfills the statistics requirement for Sociology majors and the research requirement for Social Science majors. Lab Fee. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social Science & Human Srv College Sociology Department
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A study of the social structures and processes that influence food production, distribution, consumption, and how each of these affect human populations in developed and developing societies. Malthusian, Marxist and Ecologically Sustainable perspectives will be examined. Subtopics include agriculture, diet and nutrition, genetically modified food, famine, corporate food promotion, and trade inequalities. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social Science & Human Srv College Sociology Department Course Attributes: GE TOPICS SOCIAL SCIENCE, SS-Sch Core-Sustainability
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A consideration of the ways in which society defines deviance and the deviant individual, starting with the major theoretical perspectives on why socially prohibited behavior occurs and how we make sense of deviance. The course will examine how social structures deal with deviants and the adaptive behavior of those identified as deviant. Of particular importance is the role which persons in political power or those who enforce the law play in the labeling of acts and actors as deviant. The course will focus on a specific social category of deviants and their "careers" each semester it is offered. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social Science & Human Srv College Sociology Department
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The Fieldwork in Sociology of Community does not meet as a class. Students must complete 96 hours of community work during the semester in a group or institution relevant to sociology. Each student will meet with the instructor individually during the semester to discuss his/her site work. As a final project, and based on their individual field practices, students will produce a paper that integrates both the field and classroom work. This course also fulfills the SSHS core fieldwork requirement. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social Science & Human Srv College Sociology Department
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This course studies communities and the ways in which they change. We will explore the claim by many scholars that the transition from agricultural to industrial society destroyed earlier forms of human solidarity. The course will present the environmentalist, sustainable perspectives on community and their relation to contemporary critiques of "progress". Special attention will be given to the impact of social class, race, gender, corporate economics, and culture on community life both nationally and globally. Finally, we will evaluate emerging alternatives for community change. This is a required course for Sociology majors and recommended for Social Science contract majors. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social Science & Human Srv College Sociology Department Course Attributes: MJ-LAWS-Law & Society Elective
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The course is an introduction to the contemporary debate about the objectivity of modern science in a multicultural and globalizing world. Current reconstructions of the interconnected origins of western modernity and science are examined and used to define different perspectives on the history and philosophy of science. Cultural studies of science approaches are presented that compare science and other knowledge systems. In these contexts assessments of the social and cultural impacts of scientific knowledge and scientized-technologies are examined. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social Science & Human Srv College Sociology Department Course Attributes: GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES, TS-Sch Core- SCP Category
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A sociological examination of the religious experience. This course studies institutional and non-institutional systems of belief, practice, organization, and the ways in which these systems shape the behavior of adherents through particular rules of conduct. Using examples from various religions as they have emerged historically, we will explore changes in interpretations of the sources of religion. Diversity of views has often led to internal discord and sometimes major conflicts within religious groups and organizations (i.e., feminist and liberation theologies) as alternatives to traditional approaches. The course will also look at how ideas of the sacred have permeated culture and informed the philosophies of so many social and political movements. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social Science & Human Srv College Sociology Department Course Attributes: GE TOPICS SOCIAL SCIENCE, SS-Sch Core-Consc & Society
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This course introduces the social theories of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber and illustrates how these theories have been renewed as ongoing research programs. Systematic attention is given to the issues of validating concept and theory formation and the debate about "objectivity" and ideology in social theory. These theoretical perspectives are also used to introduce the normative debate about the globalization of modern civil society in a multicultural world. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social Science & Human Srv College Sociology Department Course Attributes: GE TOPICS SOCIAL SCIENCE
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STUDY ABROAD. This course will describe the general political frameworks that secure peace and justice in India and analyze the impact of the different social movements on Indian political decision-making. The course will document how the constitution of India and the judicial system have also helped to defend the rights of aggrieved communities and the decentralization and democratization of the Panchayat system. Specific cases will include: pluralism and the rise of cultural nationalisms, the role of NGO's and empowerment innovations, the campaign against child labor, trade union movements, and Dalits, tribals and women's movements. The course will analyze how social movements aid India's experiments with democracy and continue to energize the processes of democratization in Indian democracy. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social Science & Human Srv College Sociology Department Course Attributes: GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
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This course will examine the changing nature of the family and the workplace with an emphasis on the impact of gender in these two spheres. We will focus on specific social and historical changes which have altered the structure of the domestic realms of work and the dynamics of the relationship between men and women. Special attention will be given to such issues as equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, pay equity (comparable worth), parental leaves, sexual harassment, and the effects of globalization on women's labor, in the United States and the developing world. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit Hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social Science & Human Srv College Sociology Department Course Attributes: GE TOPICS SOCIAL SCIENCE
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