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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six credits of sociology or permission of department. Structural and processual characteristics of organizations that make them effective for different purposes and in different environments. Effects of different institutional environments, small group processes, organizational networks, and leadership. Types of organizations studied include formal bureaucracies, professional organizations, and voluntary associations.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six credits of sociology or permission of department. Movements that seek change in the social and political structure of society. Origins, tactics, organization, recruitment, and success. Case studies come from such movements as labor, civil rights, student, feminist, environmental, neighborhood, and gay rights.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCY202, SOCY203, and one course in Organizations and Institutions. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. This is the special topics research course for Organizations and Institutions.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six credits of sociology or permission of department. The nature of the self-concept and the social forces that mold it. Major sociological, psychological, and psycho-analytic theories of the self-concept. Self-concept motives, mechanisms of self-defense, and the nature of a healthy self-concept. Empirical research dealing with the bearing of social interaction, social structure, social context and social institutions on the self-concept.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six credits of sociology or permission of department. Junior standing. The sociological study of social class, status, and power. Topics include theories of stratification, correlates of social position, functions and dysfunctions of social inequality, status inconsistency, and social mobility.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six credits of sociology or permission of department. Development of the family from pre-industrial to contemporary period. Emphasis upon class differences in family functioning and the roles of husbands and wives. Changes in these roles from pre-industrial to postindustrial period, and variations by race. Discussion of the emergence of dual-worker and dual-career families and the issues they face.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six credits of sociology or permission of department. Study of the family as a social institution; its biological and cultural foundations, historical development, changing structures and functions, the interaction of marriage and parenthood, disorganizing and reorganizing factors in present-day trends.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six credits of sociology or permission of department. Socio-historical analysis of the changing nature and meaning of childhood. Analysis of social psychological, demographic, and socioeconomic aspects of contemporary children's lives, with a focus on peer groups, gender relations, family change, macroeconomic conditions, poverty, health, and educational well-being of children.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCY201 or equivalent or permission of department. Analysis of small group structures and dynamics. Review of research on small groups in real life settings and in laboratories. Presentation of techniques used in small groups.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCY202, SOCY203, and one course in Social Psychology. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. This is the special topics research course in Social Psychology.
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