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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six credits in sociology or permission of department. Also offered as AAST424. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: AAST424 or SOCY424. Analysis of race-related issues, with a primary focus on American society. The historical emergence, development, and institutionalization of racism; the impact of racism on its victims; and racially based conflict.
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Prerequisite: six credits of sociology or permission of department. Current theories of the genesis and distribution of deviant behavior, and their implications for a general theory of deviant behavior. Definitions of deviance, labeling theory, secondary deviance.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCY202, SOCY203 and one course in Stratification and Inequality. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. This is the special topics research course for Stratification and Inequality.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: six credits of sociology or permission of department. Theoretical issues in social psychology, focusing on social construction of identity. Identity formation and transformation in social process. Structural and cultural dimensions of social identity.
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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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