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4.00 Credits
Provides an overview of global development with a focus on the social consequences of development practices for people living in developing countries. Also examines the ways in which consumption patterns in industrialized countries affect global development. Case study approach used to consider the effects of general practices on specific locales, such as the role of powerful forces (economic, political, ideological, religious) in shaping living conditions at the local level. Prerequisite: Sociology 111 or permission of instructor. STAFF.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines sociological theories and perspectives on issues of conflict, violence, and conflict management in contemporary societies, with attention to the role of third parties in conflict resolution and peacemaking. Topics include person-to-person negotiation, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques, restorative justice, peace processes in wars and ethnic conflicts, and principles of conflict management at the micro and macro levels. Prerequisite: Sociology 111 or permission of instructor. MCCLELLAND.
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4.00 Credits
This survey of contemporary social movements focuses on the processes of social and cultural change, collective group behavior, and the process and critiques of reform revolution and social movement change. We will examine definitions and theories of reform, revolution, and social movements and make comparative analyses of goals and ideologies, and their development, inside and beyond the boundaries of the United States. Our central paradigms will focus on race, class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nationality. Prerequisite: Sociology 111 or permission of instructor. SCOTT.
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4.00 Credits
Analysis of the causes and control of deviant behavior, e.g., alcohol and drug abuse, suicide, assault, and sexual deviance. Topics include how definitions of deviance change, how people become deviant, how deviant groups are organized, and how transactions among deviants occur. Prerequisite: Sociology 111 or permission of instructor. HUNTER.
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4.00 Credits
The study of human social interaction. Focuses on how people interact in small groups, change their beliefs, interpret behavior, develop a sense of identity, and construct their social worlds. Attention to the social psychology of collective behavior and of everyday life. Prerequisite: Sociology 111, or Psychology 113, or permission of instructor. HUNTER.
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4.00 Credits
Analysis of social inequality in groups and society. Topics include why inequality occurs, its consequences for individuals and societies, how social stratification systems operate, and how social status is attained by individuals. Theories of stratification are evaluated. Prerequisite: Sociology 111 or permission of instructor. McCLELLAND.
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4.00 Credits
How do individuals develop attractions, make sexual choices, define and enact their own sexuality? How do institutions and organizations influence, shape, and constrain sexual attitudes and behaviors? This course will examine the social construction of human sexuality in the United States with particular attention to gender, sexual orientation, commercial sex, and sexual education. Prerequisite: Sociology 111 or permission of instructor. ERICKSON.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the social contexts of health, illness, and medical care, focusing on the debates and contrasting perspectives of medical sociology. Topics include the social, environmental, and occupational factors in health and disease; the politics surrounding breast cancer and the AIDS epidemic; the patient's perspective on illness; the development of the health professions and the health work force; ethical issues in medicine as they relate to medical technology; and alternatives to current health care organizations. Emphasis is given to how the social categories of gender, race, social class, and sexual orientation affect both illness and health care. Prerequisite: Sociology 111 or permission of instructor. FERGUSON.
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4.00 Credits
A sociological analysis of how gender is constructed and transformed in American society. This course will explore how both men and women come to know themselves as gendered beings, how gender is produced through interactions, in the media, in the workplace, and in families. Prerequisite: Sociology 111 or permission of instructor. ERICKSON.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to sociological perspectives on race, ethnicity, and racial inequality in American society. Examines the historical development of racebased barriers to achievement, the emergence and persistence of racial inequality, the character of racial beliefs, resistance to racial oppression, and current problems in American race relations. Emphasis on understanding individual attitudes and behaviors in relation to the structure of social institutions. Prerequisite: Sociology 111 or permission of the instructor. SCOTT.
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