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4.00 Credits
Sociological overview of the causes and consequences of social inequality. Topics include the concepts, theories, and measures of inequality; race, gender, and other caste systems; social mobility and social change; institutional supports for stratification, including family, schooling, and work; political power and the role of elites; and comparative patterns of inequality, including capitalist, socialist, and postsocialist societies.
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4.00 Credits
Provides an orientation to classic and contemporary questions about cities. Examines four fundamental frameworks for explaining and interpreting different levels of urban life: experiential and psychological; Department of Sociology social and communal; ecological and spatial; and political and economic. Integrates these approaches into a study of evolving forms of urban inequality; the contested meaning of localism; the production and consumption of urban culture; the process of immigration; segregation and ghettoization; suburbanization, fragmentation, and sprawl; the problem of environmental injustice; the spread of insecurity related to disasters and perceived health crises; and the challenge of unchecked metropolitan growth.
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4.00 Credits
How sociologists view the world compared to common-sense understandings. Exposes students to the intellectual strategies at the center of modern sociology, but also shows that sociological analysis does not occur in a historical vacuum. Sociology attempts to explain events, but it is also a historical product like other human belief systems. Addresses the human condition: where we came from, where we are, where we are headed, and why. Same topics as SOC-UA 1, but more intensive. Recommended for students who would like to be challenged.
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4.00 Credits
Examines emotional experience and expression; language and communication; self, identity, and biography; time conceptions, experiences, and practices; and the variations in the character of the "individual," historically and culturally. Each area of discussion and analysis is concerned with processes of social interaction, social organization, and the socialization of persons. Focuses special attention on organizational, historical, and ideological contexts. Sex, Gender, and the Family
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4.00 Credits
Why and how do people form groups to change their society? Analyzes reformist, revolutionary, and nationalistic struggles; their typical patterns and cycles; and the role of leaders as well as symbols, slogans, and ideologies. Concentrates on recent social movements such as civil rights, feminism, ecology, the antinuclear movement, and the New Right; asks how these differ from workers' movements. Examines reformist versus radical tendencies in political movements.
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4.00 Credits
What forms does gender inequality take, and how can it best be explained? How and why are Department of Sociology the relations between women and men changing? What are the most important social, political, and economic consequences of this "gender revolution"? The course provides answers to these questions by examining a range of theories about gender in light of empirical findings about women's and men's behavior.
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4.00 Credits
Original thinkers in sociology-their pathbreaking works and challenging views. Critical explanation and analysis of the principles and main themes of sociology as they appear in these works. Topics include the social bases of knowledge, the development of urban societies, social structure and movements, group conflict, bureaucratic organization, the nature of authority, the social roots of human nature, suicide, power and politics, and race, class, and gender. courses Department of Sociology Methods of Inquiry
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4.00 Credits
Examines the several methodologies employed in sociological analysis. Studies the relationship between the sociological question raised and the method employed. Some methods covered include survey design and analysis, unobtrusive measures, historical sociology, interviews, content analysis, and participant observation. Introduction to methods of quantitative data processing.
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4.00 Credits
Gives students in the social sciences (sociology, anthropology, political science, and metropolitan studies) an introduction to the logic and methods of descriptive and inferential statistics with social science applications. Deals with univariate and bivariate statistics and introduces multivariate methods. Problems of causal inference. Computer computation. Sociological Theory
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4.00 Credits
Examination of the controversies and research concerning the development of welfare states and public social provision. Special attention to the U.S. public social spending system, in historical and comparative perspective. Explanations of developments in social policies and an assessment of their applicability to the American welfare state and those of other societies.
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