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  • SOCI 572: Health Care and Social Policy

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Aiken. This course is an area study or survey of social policy issues in contemporary health care. Topics include social contexts of health care and health policy; the organization and financing of health services; the health professions; health and illness over the life cycle; achieving equitable access to health services; the interface between health and social services. Health problems of national significance will be addressed including infant mortality, teenage pregnancy, AIDS, the chronically mentally ill and homeless, and health impaired elderly.
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  • SOCI 577: Professions and Society

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Jacobs. This course will examine the role of the professions in contemporary society. The first third of the class will cover classic studies of professional autonomy, self-regulation and professional power. In the middle third we will read and discuss studies of the transformation of the professions over the last 30 years. The final third of the class will focus on issues of access to the professions by women and minorities, and individuals from working class and poor backgrounds. Requirements: active participation in class, three memos and a term paper.
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  • SOCI 580: Social issues in Contemporary China

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Hannum. China's transition to a market-oriented society has effected fundamental changes in the lives of citizens. This class will consider pressing social concerns that China must struggle to address as it continues down the path of market reforms. Using topical problems to illustrate broader issues of social inequality along lines of gender, ethnicity, residence status, and poverty status, we will consider questions such as the following: How are women and men faring differently in China's new labor market and workplaces Are rural peasants and the emerging underclass of urban laid-off workers being left behind by market transition How are minorities faring in China's transition How does the emerging digital divide play into the dichotomies of east-west and urban-rural in China What is the plight of millions of "floaters" migrating into China's cities, with minimal legal rights and protections Can China's rapidly-changing public health system handle emerging diseases such as SARS and AIDS How has the one-child policy affected women, children, and society in China Who are the "missing girls" of China, and what are the social implications of their disappearance How was the welfare of children and adolescents changed with market reforms The class will combine lectures, academic readings, case studies, films, and discussions.
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  • SOCI 583: Sociology of Medicine

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Bosk. Health and illness, and medical care, education, and research are examined in a social, cultural and cross-cultural perspective, with special attention to present-day American society. The course is developed around lectures and class discussion.
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  • SOCI 586: Organizations I:Theory

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. Theoretical and empirical issues in studies of formal organizations. Among the issues joined: (1) the pros and cons of rational-legal ('bureaucratic') structures deducible from empirical studies; (2) the private and social costs and benefits of large scale industrial "for profit" organizations; (3) the attacks on corporate structures by reformers in the social sciences, 1930-1980s, and by "corporate raiders" (1980s and 1990s); (4) organizations' members' "informal" mechanisms for contending with their circumstances; (5) organizations as labor markets; (6) organizations as commodities; and (7) 'post modern' organizations' "stakeholders". In a final section we will read and discuss a timely recent volume on theory about and research on organizations with the author. Among "organizational" types" we will consider are those found in education, industry, government, unions and social movements.
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  • SOCI 591: Racial Justice and the Sociology of the Law I

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. A critical examination of the law in perpetuating and eradicating racial injustice. The semester covers the period from the inception and rise of slavery during the colonial period through the Civil War.
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  • SOCI 594: History of Population

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. The aim of this course is to present a view of how western populations in the past were coping with demographic issues for survival, reproduction, and social organization. The focus of the course will be on demographic mechanisms rather than on methodology; on the transmission of ideas on disease and reproduction rather than on quantitative estimates of mortality and fertility. 1. How do we know: A discussion of sources 2. Mortality: Homeostatic mechanisms 3. Epidemiology, then and now 4. The Mortality transition 5. Family and marriage 6. Pre-industrial fertility control 7. Ideology and technology in family limitation 8. Marital, pre- and extra- 9. The fertility transition.
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  • SOCI 595: Media,Culture,and Society

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. This course will begin by surveying approaches to culture that are characteristic of general theory in sociology. We will then deal in depth with theories of recorded culture that have developed within the sociology of culture and related disciplines, including the role of the media in constructing social reality, the interpretation and reception of texts, recorded culture and the creation of symbolic boundries, the social construction of art, the organization of cultural industries, sacred symbols and political integration, and the relationship between culture and the state.
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  • SOCI 596: Sociology of Education

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Kao. This graduate seminar will introduce students to some of the key theoretical and empirical work in the sociology of education. We will focus around the question of stratification and how systems of schooling maintain or alleviate inequality. The class will examine classical approaches to schooling, schools as organizations, schools and their effects on social mobility, (class, race, and gender) stratification in achievement and attainment, tracking/ability grouping, theories and empirical work on social and cultural capital, school choice, and cross-national expansion of education.
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  • SOCI 601: Contemporary Social Theory

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Collins, Gibson. This is a graduate-level seminar structured around the main theoretical debates of contemporary sociology, including the interplay of rationality and emotion, the relationship between structure and agency, the nature of power, and the role of chance and contingency. In condisering alternative positions on these debates, we will encounter the major theorists of the past fifty years, including Parsons, Merton, Goffman, Homans, Schutz, Coleman, Bourdiew, Luhmann, Habermas, Collins, and Giddens. Requirements include intensive primary source reading, writing, and participation. The course assumes, and does not provide, prior familiarity with the main theoretical perspectives, and thus does not substitute for the undergraduate theory course (Soci 126)
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