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4.00 Credits
American Studies, Political Studies Contemporary domestic battles over controversial issues such as same-sex marriage, abortion, and affirmative action have led many to charge that the "Culture Wars" of the early 1990s havereturned to the forefront of public attention. This course examines iterations of the Culture Wars as they became manifest during the 2004 election season. Attention is given to the historical sources of the moral and cultural conflicts at issue; empirical debate about the validity of the CultureWar thesis itself; the charting of various factions of the contemporary conservative movement; and a survey of various policy arenas targeted by cultural warriors, including environment, law, science, welfare, education, sexuality, and public art.
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4.00 Credits
Political Studies Do classifications of "left" and "right" really heus to classify conflicting outlooks on globalization or other aspects of the North-South divide? What about political teachings associated with one or another kind of intense religious commitment? Where/how does "identity politics" fit inthe familiar scheme? This course provides a historically grounded account of the ideological spectrum from left to right and demonstrates how extremes of ideology dominated political discourse and sociological analysis in the 20th century. It also considers whether that picture of the ideological field still applies as we move into the current epoch.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, GSS, SRE What is the role of education in preparing students for the next stages of life? How do schools serve the needs of other social institutions, such as the family and the labor market?What are the long-term consequences of gender, racial, and ethnic differences in education? This course aims to introduce students to sociology of education as a field of study, to present the relationships between education and other social institutions, and to develop critical thinking regarding the educational issues studied. After an overview of the main sociological theories of education, the class examines topics such as education and socialization; achievement and social success; education and ethnic inequality; segregation and desegregation; parental resources and achievement; gender roles and gender inequality; and education, marriage, and family formation.
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights, SRE, STS This course revisits the study of race and ethnicity in the context of emerging genetic research. It is structured historically, beginning with examination of the history of the race concept in anthropology, the eugenics movement in the United States, and eugenics in Nazi Germany. Next, more recent anthropological and sociological accounts of race are surveyed in relation to the genomics revolution. This revolution has witnessed the rapid growth in the development of technologies for genetic analysis, a technical change that has led to achievements such as the completion of the human genome sequences. Finally, we consider the implications and potential social consequences of this emerging research on human genetic variation across scientific domains such as health and disease (including racialized medicine), genetic screening, and forensics.
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4.00 Credits
Since the end of the 19th century, political theory has grappled with the question of whether politics can be reduced to a science. This course compares major 19th- and 20th-century proposals for institutionalizing rationality in the political system, including those advanced by Mill, Engels/Marx, Weber, Mannheim, Dewey, Marcuse, and Habermas, as well as some outstanding critics of the project, such as Nietzsche, Hayek, and Foucault.
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights This course first examines the character of punishment and the rationales for punishing in a variety of different historical circumstances. Cases are drawn from studies of primitive societies, Puritan New England, 18th- and 19thcentury Western Europe, the American South, and the recent period in the United States and Great Britain. Comparisons among such disparate cases are meant to suggest broad development patterns in punishing and more specific queries about the connections between culture, social structure, and penal strategies. The case materials also offer a historical perspective on such contemporary issues and controversies as the appropriateness of retribution, the declining concern for rehabilitation, the rationales for and uses of the death penalty, and the scope of criminal responsibility.
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4.00 Credits
Africana Studies, American Studies, Human Rights, SRE Although it is popular today to celebrate the existence of a "postracial" world, race continuesto affect us in multiple ways. Given the sheer ubiquity of race matters, it is more crucial than ever to carefully understand the variety and particularity of meanings and uses with which racial concepts have been historically associated. This course, by situating the study of race and ethnicity within its own historical and intellectual context, exposes students to the broad diversity of scholarship in the field and conveys the excitement and challenge of the enterprise. Key concepts surveyed include race formation, ethnic identity, assimilation, racism, race and science, racial categorization, race and politics, gendered racism, segregation, discrimination, and whiteness.
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4.00 Credits
How do we choose the people we date and eventuallymarry? Why do people divorce and remarry? What effect does marital separation have upon the success of children later in life? This course uses sociological literature to study these questions. Focusing primarily on family patterns in the United States, the course examines the processes of partner selection, the configuration of gender and family roles, and the interrelationships among family and household members. Topics include explanations of religious and racial/ethnic intermarriage, household and work roles, divorce and remarriage, parenthood and single parenthood, and intergenerational relationships.
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights This course explores the workplace as a site for civic action in our society. Starting with the debate overWal-Mart and criticisms of its workplace practices, the class discusses some of the strategies being debated for mobilizing workers and community allies to action, both here in the United States and around the developing world in the factories where Wal-Mart buys its products. Initial topics examined include the structural, economic, and cultural factors acting as a barrier to organizing in workplaces like Wal- Mart; the role of workplace organizations in our economic and civic life; and the rise of different organizations in the workplace, from worker cooperatives to labor unions. The goal of the course is to give students both the theoretical and practical tools to analyze the limits on labor power and options for expanding the civic role of workplace action in our society.
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4.00 Credits
GSS, Human Rights, LAIS Students examine four social movements: the black civil rights movement of the 1950s-60s, the Chicano movement of the 1960s-70s, the gay and lesbian movement of the 1970s-90s, and the Vieques antimilitary movement of the 1990s. Beyond the fact that each movement sought different goals and that each occurred under different circumstances, the course focuses on two main areas: it identifies and studies the tactics, strategies, and decisions taken by organizers, and it reviews the types of actions and protests and how these related to the environment (political and social), the movements' goals (long and short term), and to their success or failure.
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