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  • SOAN 222: City And Society

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    Goldman, Podobnik Content: The nature of urban social life. Studies ranging from the United States and Europe to the Third World. The complementarity of ethnographic studies and of larger-scale perspectives that situate cities in relation to one another, to rural peripheries, and to global political-economic processes. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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  • SOAN 225: Race And Ethnicity In Global Perspective

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    DasGupta Content: Sociological and anthropological analysis of how the notions of racial and ethnic groups, nations and nationalities, indigenous and nonindigenous groups, and states and citizenships have evolved cross-culturally. How they might be reconfiguring in the present context of economic globalization, mass migrations, and diasporic formations. Causes and consequences of the recent resurgence of ethnicity and the content, scope, and proposals of ethnic movements. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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  • SOAN 226: Law And Society

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    DasGupta Content: A comparative introduction to the relationship between law and society, as well as to several different sociological approaches to the law. Addresses both classical (Weber, Marx) and contemporary (e.g., Dworkin, MacKinnon) theoretical approaches, including critical legal studies. Case studies of landmark rulings, with particular attention to the Civil Rights movement, women's rights, and so on. Key questions include the following: How do individuals experience law? What is the relationship between social activism and rights protection? Can courts bring about social change? Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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  • SOAN 227: Radical Social Movements

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    Podobnik Content: Investigation of radical social movements that have struggled to change modern society, including anarchists, revolutionaries, terrorists, rightwing groups, and others. Introduction to the structuralist approach, resource mobilization theory, the social-network approach, and analyses that emphasize processes of framing and identity formation. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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  • SOAN 228: Class,Power,And Society

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    Goldman, Podobnik Content: The development of class structures and contemporary structures of classes and class relations. Classical and contemporary theories of class and inequality. Interrelationships of class, status, power, gender. Formerly Sociology/Anthropology 320. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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  • SOAN 240: The Family In Cross-Cultural Perspective

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    Staff Content: Kinship and descent: critical assessment of these organizing principles for the self and social relations in society. The family's theoretical "core"; conjugal, extended, and recombinant families. Recent feminist scholarship on the relationship between gender and kinship studies. Cross-cultural perspective on changing patterns in the family structure. The relationship between labor and changing family roles for men, women, and children. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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  • SOAN 244: Practicum

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    Staff Content: Community-based experience combined with bibliographic exploration of relevant literatures. With the help of a faculty advisor, students select placement from a variety of community organizations, shelters, and social agencies. Writing reflects field experiences in the context of literature reviews. Prerequisites: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110. Consent of instructor. Taught: Each semester, 1-4 semester credits.
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  • SOAN 245: Visual Anthropology

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    Hubbert Content: Representation in the study of culture. Explore and evaluate different genres of visual representation, including museums, theme parks, films, television, and photographic exhibitions as modes of anthropological analysis. Topics include the ethics of observation, the politics of artifact collection and display, the dilemmas of tourism, the role of consumption in constructing visual meaning, and the challenge of interpreting indigenously produced visual depictions of self and other. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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  • SOAN 249: The Political Economy Of Food

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    Goldman Content: Situating food at the intersection of political economy, society, and culture, an exploration of how food is produced and consumed. Topics include the relationships between society and agricultural forms; technologies of food production and ecological impacts; commodity chains and the industrialization of foods; food inequality and hunger; food and the body (e.g., diets, health, obesity, anorexia, fast food vs. slow food, farmer's markets vs. supermarkets); and cultures of food--from personal identity to ethnic identity to cuisine tourism to utopian visions Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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  • SOAN 251: Myth,Ritual,And Symbol

    3.00 Credits
    Lewis & Clark College

    Angst, Kosansky Content: Anthropological approaches to the study of myth, ritual, and symbol. The nature of myth and ritual in a variety of cultures, including the United States. Introduction to analytical approaches to myth, ritual, and symbolic forms including functionalism, structuralism, psychoanalysis, interpretive and performative approaches. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 100 or 110, and sophomore standing; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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