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1.25 Credits
Exploration of nature, structure, and functionings of American society. Explores the following: social institutions and economic structure; the successes, failures, and intractabilities of institutions; general and distinctive features of American society; specific problems such as race, sex, and other inequalities; urban-rural differences. Fulfills lower-division major requirement. (General Education Code(s): IS.) M. Greenberg, J. Reardon
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7.00 Credits
Fundamental concepts in statistics. Introduction to measuring causation. Learn to use computer to analyze data efficiently. Emphasis on practical applications. Enrollment restricted to sociology, proposed sociology, and combined sociology majors. (General Education Code(s): Q.) H. Fukurai, D. Takagi
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7.00 Credits
The first part of the course focuses on basic ethical, political, and logical issues in social scientific inquiry. The second part develops a wide range of skills and methods appropriate to actual research. Course 103A, Statistical Methods, is strongly recommended. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; enrollment restricted to sociology and sociology combined majors, minors and proposed majors. (General Education Code(s): W, Q.) G. Sandoval
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1.25 Credits
This intensive survey course examines the intellectual origins of the sociological tradition, focusing on changing conceptions of social order, social change, and the trends observed in the development of Western civilization in the modern era. Readings are all taken from original texts and include many of the classical works in social theory with special emphasis on the ideas of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim which constitute the core of the discipline. Required for sociology majors planning on studying abroad (EAP). Enrollment restricted to sociology, proposed sociology, the combined Latin American and Latino studies/sociology, and the proposed combined Latin American and Latino studies/sociology majors and sociology minors. E. DuPuis, M. Traugott
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1.25 Credits
Surveys major theoretical perspectives currently available in the discipline including functionalism, symbolic in-teractionism, ethnomethodology, conflict theory, critical theory, neo-Marxism, feminist theory. Enrollment restricted to sociology, proposed sociology, the combined Latin American and Latino studies/sociology, and the proposed combined Latin American and Latino studies/ sociology majors and sociology minors. A. Szasz
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1.25 Credits
Examines child abuse and neglect, wife abuse, and sexual abuse in the family, using gender as a lens through which to understand domestic violence. Using a variety of sources, the course undertakes to understand the social, political, and cultural forces that contribute to abuse and to consider solutions. The Staff
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1.25 Credits
Focuses on the interaction between family and society by considering the historical and social influences on family life and by examining how the family unit affects the social world. Readings draw on theory, history, and ethnographic materials. W. Martyna
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1.25 Credits
Introduction to economic sociology using field visits to key sites of production and consumption to investigate sociological ideas about the modern economy. B. Crow
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1.25 Credits
An intensive examination of major substantive monographs representing pluralist, elite, and class theories of the state in industrialized capitalist democracies. The Staff
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1.25 Credits
Explores the interconnections between sports and society using sociological theories and methods. Topics include class, race, and gender; mass media and popular culture; political economy; education and socialization; leisure patterns (participants and spectators); globalization and cross-national comparisons. W. Goldfrank
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