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1.25 Credits
An introduction to social sciences inquiry, stressing what is common as well as what is different in the techniques and procedures employed in the different disciplines. The course seeks to develop the student's skill in designing original research and in evaluating the significance of already published research findings. Topics include: the interdependence of theory and research; ways of formulating research problems and hypotheses; the variety of research designs (introducing the ideas of statistical as well as experimental control); and an overview of the major procedures of instrument construction, measurement, data collection, sampling, and data analysis. Required laboratory sessions offer experience in each step of the research process. 1.25 units, Lecture
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0.00 Credits
Critical examination of the major theoretical perspectives current in sociology (structure functionalism, interactionism, conflict theory, exchange theory, and ethnomethodology) and consideration of their implications for core problems: such as social order and social change that concern all sociologists. Also, emphasis upon the methods of theory construction, the relationship between theory and research, and the significance of the classic (e.g., Durkheim's Suicide) for sociologists now. Prerequisite: Prior Sociology course. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
Diverse sociological perspectives on the causes of social problems will be analyzed. Crime, police behavior, collective violence, poverty, welfare and other topics relating to deviance and inequality in American society are considered in light of these perspectives. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
This is a special program designed for those students who want to be involved in and learn about community organizing. In addition to working as an intern in a Hartford neighborhood. Not open to first-year students. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
The family as a basic group in human societies; its development; its relations to other institutions; historical changes in its structure; its place in modern industrial society. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
A cross-national comparison of racial and ethnic differences as sources of conflict and inequality within and between societies. We will also consider the role of race and ethnicity as a basis for group and national solidarity. Topics will include the persistence of ethnic and racial loyalties in regard to language, marital choice, and politics; a comparison of social mobility patterns among various ethnic and racial groups; ethnicity and race as reactionary or revolutionary ideologies; the issues and facts regarding assimilation and pluralism in different societies. 1.00 units, Lecture
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0.00 Credits
The successful first democratic election and the ascendancy of the African National Congress to political power have substantially changed the socio-political environment of South Africa. This course explores systematically the forces that shape South African society now and in the future. Topics include the prospects for multiracial coexistence, bridging extreme class distinctions through development policies, power struggles with in and between factions, and dealing with the social and economic legacy of Apartheid, especially its effects on yourth who have been brutalized by the experience of violence. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor signed by the Department Chair. Enrollment limited. (Same as International Studies 218.) Prerequisite: Prior Sociology course or permission of instructor. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
The 21st century is truly a global urban age characterized by the simultanious decline and revival of post-industrial cities in the United States and the co-existence of boom and poverty in the rapidly industrializing cities in developing countries, as well as by how globalization is exerting growing impact on urban places and processes everywhere. This course adopts an integrated and comparative approach to studying the local and global characteristics, conditions, and consequences of the growth and transformation of cities and communities. Using Hartford-Trinity's hometown-as a point or place of departure, the course takes students to a set of world or global cities outside the United States, especially a few dynamic mega-cities in developing countries to explore the differences and surprising similarities among them. 1.00 units, Lecture
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