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3.00 Credits
Study of the nature, causation, and consequences of social and cultural change in diverse social settings; processes of change, including adoption and diffusion of innovation, social movements, and instigated, directed change; visions of desirable futures. Focuses on the U.S., but also examines the structure and dynamics of global interdependence as they relate to processes of social and cultural change in the U.S.
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Examination of the social and cultural dimensions of health, illness, and health care delivery; foci include the hospital, the medical professions, attitudes and beliefs about health, and social and demographic factors in the distribution of illness. Examination of debates about the financing and organization of health care and alternatives to the traditional practice of medicine.
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Seminar that examines the major concerns surrounding gender and health; focuses on how gender, age, class, and race/ethnicity interact to create particular definitions of health/illness; to shape health/illness behaviors and the use of health care services; and to determine health care policy, programs, and research.
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Study of law as a social phenomenon, including the development of legal norms and how they are related to social institutions. Emphasizes such areas as courts, judges, lawyers and legal training, prisons, as well as the social perception of the validity of law and legal definitions.
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3.00 Credits
Opportunity to explore a substantive area of sociology in an applied setting; setting, structure, requirements, and outcomes are negotiated with the individual instructor guiding the internship. Prerequisite: major status and permission of instructor. Students may take more than one SY396 or 496 course during their career with different titles and contents.
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Brief survey of the founders and founding ideas of European and American sociology in the nineteenth century; concentration on American sociological theories and theorists since 1920, with major focus on developments since World War II. Examination of theory construction and models and paradigms from the standpoint of systematic, metasociological criteria, including their utility in research. Offered every fall semester; should be taken in the junior year. Prerequisites: SY300 and nine hours of sociology. Co-requisite: SY430. Prerequisite to SY435, SY440, and SY450.
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Study of the processes of social inquiry and an introduction to research methods for the social sciences, with attention to the design and execution of quantitative and qualitative social research, including the nature, goals, and logic of social research and the structure and processes of inquiry. Topics include problem formulation; causation; the role of theory in social investigation; conceptualization, operationalization, and measurement; reliability and validity; sampling; quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection; coding; introduction to data analysis; and ethical and political issues of social research. Offered every fall semester; should be taken in the junior year. Prerequisites: SY300 and nine hours of sociology. Co-requisite: SY410. Prerequisite to SY435, SY440, and SY450.
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3.00 Credits
Writing course that emphasizes various types of social science documents (such as book and journal reviews, abstracts, annotated bibliographies, and the required proposal for the research thesis); communicating with lay audiences; and delivering professional presentations of scholarly work. A major component of the course is preparation of the research proposal that serves as the basis for the senior research project in SY450. Students orally present their proposals for departmental approval. Offered every spring semester; should be taken in the junior year. Prerequisites: SY300, SY410, and SY430. Co-requisite: SY440. Prerequisite to SY450. (This course is also open to other social science majors and minors; for them, PE325, PSY322, or an equivalent course (to be approved by the instructor of SY435) is a prerequisite for SY435.)
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Introduction to applied statistical concepts, with emphasis on the use of bivariate and multivariate statistical procedures for the analysis of data from sample surveys. Offered every spring semester; should be taken in the junior year. Prerequisites: SY300, SY410, and SY430, or permission of instructor. Co-requisite: SY435. Prerequisite to SY450.
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3.00 Credits
Research course in which students execute the research project they proposed in SY435 and present the findings of their studies in an oral presentation and in a final report which contains an abstract; a problem statement and research objectives or hypotheses; identification of the main concepts and variables, including their definition, operationalization, and measurement; a review of the pertinent theoretical and empirical literature; a description of the study design and execution; findings and their interpretation; summary, conclusions, implications, and suggestions for further research; a bibliography; and a copy of the research instrument. Offered every fall semester; should be taken in the senior year. Prerequisites: SY300, SY410, SY430, SY435, and SY440.
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