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Examines sociological approaches to the production, circulation, and consumption of cultural objects and practices in their many forms. Emphasizes the complex relations between culture and social structure, and introduces students to a variety of strategies for studying culture sociologically. 3 Cr.
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Prerequisite: SOC 100. Considers the process of urbanization and its social consequences. Focuses on contemporary urban issues, including suburbanization, and also examines urbanization from an historical and cross-cultural perspective. 3 Cr.
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Prerequisite: SOC 100. Compares and contrasts three social processes that have connected distant people and places in the modern era: colonialism, development, and globalization. Students will explore the theoretical and cultural foundations of those processes, the social institutions involved in maintaining them, their impacts on people around the world, and the major social issues that they bring to the fore. 3 Cr.
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Prerequisite: SOC 100. Explores the process and logic of research, the range of research designs, and specific research tools for the collection and analysis of social data, with a focus on quantitative analysis. Statistics (SOC 200) not required, but preferred. 3 Cr.
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Cross-listed as AAS 314. Explores the sociocultural, political and economic conditions that affect black family life. Confronts the pejorative tradition as the primary modality for examining black family life, and explores the African antecedents and continuities that have influenced the black family in the US. 3 Cr.
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Cross-listed as AAS 317. Examines the historical and social conditions in which prejudice arises; social functions of prejudice and its psycho-social manifestations; the impact of prejudice and discrimination upon social and race relations in mass societies; and theories of prejudice. 3 Cr.
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Prerequisite: SOC 100. Explores the nature, causes and consequences of inequalities of social class, wealth and power. Also examines major theories of social stratification and mobility in industrial nations. 3 Cr.
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Prerequisite: SOC 100. Examines the social relations surrounding the production, distribution, preparation and consumption of food. Explores how food relates to individual and group identity, family, work and leisure, social inequality, globalization and social change. Throughout we consider the consequences of food production and consumption on social relationships and population health. 3 Cr.
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Prerequisite: SOC 100. Explores the dynamic qualities of race and ethnicity in terms of definition, meaning and experience. Studies the role of race and ethnicity in social relations. Examines major theoretical orientations toward racial and ethnic stratification, as well as the consequences of inequality for both majority and minority groups. 3 Cr.
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Prerequisite: SOC 100. Examines assumptions about medicine, health, and illness; and current knowledge about the relationship between society, the individual, and the social structure of the medical system. 3 Cr.
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