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This course examines the variations in modern societies. Particular attention is given to the development of kinship and family practices and structures, to the practices of marriage and divorce, and to variations in human sexual behavior. This course will trace the emergence of the modern family from its simpler sociocultural origins. SOSCI, Fall semester.
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A sociological approach to social psychology. Questions to be addressed include: the origin and nature of self; the social dimensions of ideas, perception and sensation; the role of language in experiencing the world; knowledge of other minds; knowledge of one's own mind; attitudes, roles, interpersonal relations, and conformity; and individual free will versus social determinism. SOSCI. Spring semester.
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A seminar course which examines the history and evolution of social inequality in human society. The course will specifically examine the evolution of political-economic institutions and the relationship of these institutions to the development of social classes. Fall semester.
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A study of the principal American and ethnic minority groups. SOSCI, Spring semester.
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This course examines the social causes and consequences of drug use, and theoretical frameworks used to explain drugs in society. It also explores the social, cultural, political, and economic processes that shape U.S. drug policy and our understandings of it. Spring semester.
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Globalization has become one of the defining world processes, as nations, communities, and regions are being linked through the world economy. The course will familiarize students with various theoretical perspectives proposed to explain globalization. Attention will be given to the politics and economics of globalization as well as to key issues, such as global crime, information technology, and the environment. NWEST, Spring semester.
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This course will offer in-depth analysis of selected topics in sociology and anthropology, such as economic anthropology, rural sociology, and geographical area courses. Offered occasionally.
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Sociologists have traditionally studied the strange, usually finding it in people who are "different," e.g., criminals, crazy people, unusual religions, odd cultures, etc. In this course students are invited to discover the strangeness, the oddness, the hard-to-fathom in the routine activities of our own everyday lives, i.e., in our "normal" activities-including such things as walking through doors, buying popcorn, planning parties, and following rules. Students will discover that these activities only seem to be normal, seem to be understandable, seem to be easy to explain, because we take them for granted and in doing so make them appear normal. In other words, we actively hide our own strangeness from ourselves and from each other. Offered occasional
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This course draws on sociological, interdisciplinary, and feminist perspectives to consider the regulation, control, and experience of the body in U.S. culture. Emphasis is placed on theories that view bodies as products of discourses (medical knowledge and practice, media representations, and institutional regimens) and as agents of social activities and interactions in daily life, including identities, relationships, differences, bases for inequalities and forms of oppression, and sites of resistance and struggles for change. Offered occasionally.
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Consideration of qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry as applied to social situations. Design of research project after review of relevant literature. Prerequisites: S/A-112 or permission of instructor. Fall semester.
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