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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322, or approval of instructor. An advanced sociology course on sexuality. The core theme of the course is to explore how the way we think about and experience the erotic, sex, and sexuality are constructed through and shaped by social processes. Considerable time will be spent on sexuality as a system of stratification that is separate from but intersects with inequalities on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, and class.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. Explores the perspective within social psychology known as symbolic interactionism. Includes discussion of the work of pioneering scholars in the field, as well as recent theoretical and empirical studies. Topics to be covered include the self, socialization, identity, social interaction, the dramaturgical metaphor, human nature, social structure, and the definition of the situation.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. An examination of social and psychological factors affecting the prevalence and incidence of disease in human populations. Topics also considered include the organization of the health professions, comparative medical systems, social change and health care, and social factors affecting the utilization of health services.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. An historical analysis of both the forms and the functions of work from ancient times to the present, with emphasis on Western cultures. Projections of the nature and purposes of work in the post-industrial era.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. Sociological examination of the dynamics of race and ethnic relations in the United States. This course provides an opportunity for students to read about, think, and discuss issues of racial and ethnic relations in society. Topics include the social construction of racial classification systems, the historical record of the interaction between the races in America, public policy, and possible mechanisms for dealing with some of the issues that many consider most problematic in our society.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. Examination of science as a social institution and the processes of research as sociological phenomena. Special attention to factors accounting for scientific productivity and a case analysis of sociology as an emerging scientific specialty.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. Consideration in depth of one or more current problems of theory and research in the sociology of deviance: societal reaction theory, organizations for management of deviance, the design of prevention. Independent student research projects encouraged. Note: May be repeated for credit provided it’s a different topic.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. Using case studies from Japan (Samurai-to-Tonin-to-Yakuza), the gangster-era United States (1920s and 1930s), modern Colombia (narcotraffice) and Brazil (Favela gangs), and contemporary urban U.S. ethnic gangs, this course explores through text and film, the social construction and social control of groups deemed “public enemies.†Course analysis uses several theoretical contexts: Social constructionist sociology, theories of political and social power, conceptualizations ethnic stranger/“Others,†and the role of classification in ordering social worlds. These processes are explained in terms of longer-term historical developments involving constructing and reshaping urban identities, distinguishing urban from rural ones, and the internationalizing of these processes and struggles.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. Consideration in depth of one or more current problems of theory and research in sociology in inequality: Poverty, Homelessness and the Cities; The American Underclass; Labor Markets. Note: May be repeated for credit provided it’s a different topic.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. Theories of stratification, status systems in various societies, measurement and research of social classes in the United States.
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