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4.00 Credits
Considers the contemporary intersections of poverty and families in the U.S. Explores definitions of poverty, prevalent theoretical understandings of poverty, the impact of poverty on families and the strategies they use to cope, demographics, existing and proposed policies designed to mitigate poverty and their relationships to families. Pays particular attention to systems of race, class, and gender, to questions of causes vs. symptoms of poverty, and to political economic issues. May not be taken for credit by students who have received credit for SOC 486A. Recommended Preparation: SOC 303.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the prevalence, causes, and consequences of the various types of violence that occur within family and intimate relationships. Historical trends and proposed solutions to ending such violence will be explored. The nature of specific forms of violence within families-child abuse, domestic violence, and elder abuse-will be considered with emphasis on both the interpersonal dynamics and broader sociopolitical forces involved.
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4.00 Credits
A sociological understanding of social class, race, and gender differences in health and health care utilization. Historical and international comparisons of the organization and access to health care contribute to an understanding of the social and personal consequences of inequities in care delivery.
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4.00 Credits
Examines social and individual efforts to control disease and maintain health. Investigates public health efforts historically and cross-culturally, current U.S. public health efforts, public health as social control, self-responsibility and health, health economics and prevention, communityactivism and alternative-medicine approaches to health.
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4.00 Credits
Examines how emotions like pain, anger, love, envy, jealousy, shame, joy, anxiety, and happiness motivate human behavior. Emphasis on social aspects of emotions that are shaped by social interaction and social structure. Social construction of emotions and the interchange between social rules and affect is examined.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of women and health. Analysis of women's health maintenance and disease prevention; gender bias in medical treatment; medicalization of "natural"processes; women and the health system, medical-legal system, and bio-medical research. Subject matter may include: eating disorders, contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, fertility from pregnancy to birthing, stress and mental illness, menopause, breast cancer, alternative and traditional healing systems. Issues of social class, nationality, race, culture and sexual preference are emphasized throughout. Recommended Preparation: Previous coursework in the area of health and illness. Also offered as WMST 424. Students may not receive credit for both.
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4.00 Credits
Demographic trends, economic status, family relationships, physical and social needs of the elderly.
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4.00 Credits
Comparative analysis of the social, psychological, and organizational study of dying; ethical issues, cultural practices.
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4.00 Credits
Study of urban growth and its impact. Themes explored include metropolitan, suburban, and urban regional development and change; population density; diversity and migration; urban/suburban lifestyles; urban/suburban institutions and important societal trends. Local, national, and crossnational cases are examined.
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4.00 Credits
Through the lens of feminist theories of Marxism, Socialism, Critical Race Theory, and Post-Modernism, this class will explore issues of justice related to social, legal, ideological, and material conditions. Issues of education, health, public policy, children, labor and a critique of the feminist movement by women of color may be discussed.
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