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3.00 Credits
Introduction to qualitative methods frequently used in social research including field based approaches such as participant observation, intensive interviewing and focus groups, and unobtrusive approaches such as content analysis and historical comparative analysis. Techniques and skills required for data collection and analysis and ethical, social and political dimensions of social science research.
Corequisite:
SOC 1303, SOS 2303 and junior standing
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3.00 Credits
Drawing on insights from women┐s studies, development studies, and demography as well as sociology, this course will examine the problems and prospects encountered by the women of industrializing nations in an increasingly interrelated world. Through readings and discussions, students will examine the changing realities of women┐s lives in nations undergoing the disruptions of industrialization, and will explore the meanings of solidarity and feminism as they are practiced in such nations. This course will demonstrate the complex ways in which women┐s lives are shaped by both gender expectations and economic change.
Corequisite:
SOC 1303 and junior standing
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3.00 Credits
Explores the social construction of meaning associated with concepts of minority/majority status, race, and ethnicity. Issues may include assimilation, pluralism, subcultural diversity, and intergroup relations in past and present American society. Various theoretical perspectives will inform discussion.
Corequisite:
SOC 1303 and junior standing
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3.00 Credits
US social and economic inequality, focusing on theory, analysis and data. Topics discussed include class system in the United States, differentials in economic levels, family, education, life-styles, class consciousness; racism and sexism as structures of inequality; the relationship between social class and political power and the future of inequality.
Corequisite:
SOC 1303 and junior standing
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3.00 Credits
Study of norm-violating behavior in contemporary society. Comparison and contrast of multiple theoretical perspectives used to explain social deviance.
Corequisite:
SOC 1303 and junior standing
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3.00 Credits
Historical and cross-cultural analysis of the social factors and coping mechanisms associated with health and illness. Topics may include the social production of illness, the social organization of health care, the medicalization of social problems, and current ethical and policy issues.
Corequisite:
SOC 1303 and junior standing
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3.00 Credits
Theory- and data-based exploration of biological, psychological, sociological, and cultural explanations for aggressive behavior, including its manifestation as violence. Prevention strategies will also be discussed.
Corequisite:
SOC 1303 and junior standing
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3.00 Credits
Employing perspectives of both sociology and social psychology, this course explores the use of legal and illegal substances, mainly with reference to the United States. Topics discussed will be: 1) the history of used and attitudes toward tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and other substances; 2) the political economy of drug production and distribution; 3) social psychological stages of substance used involvement; 4) contemporary approaches to substance use prevention among adolescence; 5) socio-cultural causes of substance use.
Corequisite:
SOC 1303 and junior standing
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3.00 Credits
Explores the social construction of gender, the consequences of gender stratification, and the theoretical explanations for gender development and inequality. Issues include the intersection of sex and gender with sexual orientation, class, race, and ethnicity.
Corequisite:
Junior standing and one of the following: ANTH 2301, ANTH 2302, PSY 1303, SOC 1303
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the social organization of political and economic power. Different theoretical views of the state are discussed as well as the ways different groups compete for power. Other topics include the relationship between economic inequality and political power and political participation.
Corequisite:
SOC 1303, 3 additional hours in sociology and junior standing
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