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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. This course examines the role of ideologies justifying persecution itself in the construction and change of national states. Four interrelated and interactive processes are analyzed: cultural construction of pollution, danger, and taboo; marginalization of stigmatized “Othersâ€; the roles of these processes in construction and change in national states; the responses to “Others†to the previously described processes.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. Various aspects of the criminal justice system are examined with special attention devoted to organizational and decision-making features. The discretionary powers of criminal justice agencies are explored in light of their effect on the composition and size of this society’s criminal population. Discussed are the legislature, police, courts, and corrections agencies.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. Is policing politically neutral in its goals and consequences? Is it inherently political in its processes, goals, and outcomes? What is political policing? How does it operate? Is politicized policing solely a problem of developing country settings? Does it decrease with societal development? What is the relationship of police to national states and their political agendas? What is the difference between low and high political policing? Under what conditions do the politics of policing become more or less visible? What is the relative political value of police or military action? What have been the consequences of political policing?
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. An examination of the intersection of psychosocial processes and the machinery of grammar and lexicon. Examination of the areas of aphasia, mental disorders, language acquisition, and cognition with an emphasis on cross-cultural methods and experimental design.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. An advanced theoretical and empirical analysis of the determinants of organized non-institutionalized forms of collective action. Topics include the interplay of structural conditions and voluntaristic actions, the logic of collective action, culture, and ideology as they shape social movement outcomes. The specific types or dimensions of collective action examined may vary from semester to semester.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. Course focuses on the applied methods required to determine whether an intervention (or policy) achieve intended ends. Relevant topics include: problem identification, needs assessment, values clarification, policy description, evaluative tools, ethical considerations, problems and pitfalls of applied evaluative research, and efficiency and cost-benefit analysis.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. Exploration and development of organizational structures, processes and consequences. Interdisciplinary focus drawing conceptual, theoretical, and methodological tools from sociology, management, economics, and applied fields such as law and public administration. The seminar will examine classic and current issues in the sociology of organizations and the influence of complex organizations on different contexts and institutions (e.g., economy, family, healthcare, politics).
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. Ethnographic and qualitative study of organizations, methods thereof, and research literatures thereon. Topics include qualitative data collection methods, application of these methods to organizations, and the contributions of recent ethnographic work to the study and practice of organizations. Course will take the form of comparative assessment of ethnographic and qualitative research on organizations.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. An examination of the implications of law in the persistence and change of social systems, the relation of sociological theory and research to legal institutions, and law as an organization and profession.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304 and SOCI 322 or approval of instructor. The overall relationships of the economy to other components of society and specific institutions: economy and government, economy and family, economy and gender. The social organization of the firm, the market, organizations and economic culture and how each affects the other.
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