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3.00 Credits
Did you know that SAT scores, and other standardized tests, vary by parents’ education? In this course we examine the many ways students’ social positions shape educational experiences and educational outcomes. We learn about the ways in which students’ race, gender, and social class origins shape school experiences. We also examine an important question: how much does education provide a pathway for social mobility for American children? We will also address a number of other topics including current proposals for improving American education. Students will engage with a local high school by aiding high school seniors with senior graduation projects.
Prerequisite:
Any lower level course or 2000-level sociology course
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4.00 Credits
Students spend a semester working in a public or private agency or organization where they gain sociologically relevant experience and participate in applied sociological research. Interns will learn about a substantive sociological issue through reading, writing, and hands-on experience. Students will be required to write a term paper that includes a review of the sociological literature relevant to the internship and an analysis of the data they gathered.
Prerequisite:
SOC 3201 (C201) and 3261 (0260) and instructor’s permission
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3.00 Credits
Did you know that SAT scores, and other standardized tests, vary by parents’ education? In this course we examine the many ways students’ social positions shape educational experiences and educational outcomes. We learn about the ways in which students’ race, gender, and social class origins shape school experiences. We also examine an important question: how much does education provide a pathway for social mobility for American children? We will also address a number of other topics including current proposals for improving American education.
Prerequisite:
Any lower level course or 2000-level sociology course
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4.00 Credits
Duplicate Course: This course is not open to students who have taken Psychology 2168 (0122).
This course provides a non-mathematical introduction to descriptive statistics and statistical inference. Computer-based, the course provides instruction on ideas such as statistical independence, sampling distributions, the central limit theorem, and the use of interpretation of confidence intervals. The course also provides instruction in correlation and regression analysis. Note: This course can be used to satisfy the university Core Quantitative Reasoning B (QB) requirement. Although it may be usable towards graduation as a major requirement or university elective, it cannot be used to satisfy any of the university GenEd requirements. See your advisor for further information.
Prerequisite:
Completion of Core Quantitative Reasoning A
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses upon the development of Philadelphia as a City of Neighborhoods. We examine the city’s history, the changing location and type of
economic activities, and the corresponding development and emergence of communities. Included is the analysis of the industrial working class areas of Kensington and Manayunk, the immigrant way station of South Philadelphia, the higher status bedroom suburbs, and the gentrifying center city neighborhoods. Racial integration, neighborhood transition, and community conflict are examined in terms of their historical contexts.
Prerequisite:
Any lower level course or 2000-level sociology course
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses central questions relating to the new immigrants entering the United States since the 1960s. It examines: 1) why people move and the policies by which foreign “outsiders” become integrated; 2) what determines the economic, political, cultural, linguistic and psychological adaptation processes of different types of immigrants and refugees, and of their children; 3) the changing ethnic and generational composition of the American population; 4) the influence of gender and race on immigrant identities; 5) the struggle of second-generation youth with their backgrounds; and 6) new meanings around sexuality and romance emerging in transnational families that straddle generations and international borders.
Prerequisite:
A lower level (or 2000-level) sociology course
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the complexity of Latino identity in the U.S. The course will analyze the ways in which pan-ethnic (Latino/a, Hispanic, etc.), geographical (South Americans, Central Americans, Caribbeans, etc.), national (Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, etc.), regional and intra-ethnic identifications impinge on the way Latinos and Latinas understand who they are in relation to the different others they build in their process of identity construction. The course seeks to make the connections between the macro social organization of race and ethnic categories and the micro social interactions that shape the race and ethnic experience of Latinos in the U.S.
Prerequisite:
Any lower level or 2000-level sociology course
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3.00 Credits
Socialization is the process by which individuals become members of society. We
look at this process as ongoing, starting in infancy and continuing through
adulthood. This implies constant re-socialization and discussion of the ways early
childhood learning influences adult lives. This research-intensive course is
organized around the important socialization agents of family, friends, school,
work, and the differences in socialization and therefore life histories by race,
gender, and social class. Students undertake individual research on the
socialization of children as they begin grade school. This involves developing a
research question, developing questionnaires, simulating interviews, and analyzing the findings. The course includes instruction on each
phase of the research.
Prerequisite:
Any lower level course or 2000-level sociology course
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the latest wave of globalization - its basic causes, the benefits it promises, and the discontents it produces in its way. We will follow both a politico-economic approach to the globalization process and pay attention to the issues of cultural globalization (for example, the debate over the formation of a global hegemonic culture). The course will explore the previous two phases of capitalist industrialization (competitive and Fordist/oligopolistic) before moving to the present third phase which has been variably called Post-industrial, Informatic, or, simply, Global. We will study in detail the post-World War II causes of rapid globalization from both a neo-classical and a neo-Marxist perspective, and analyze the assessments and predictions they make regarding its benefits (e.g. economic growth) and/or costs (e.g. growing North-South gap, effects on environment). We will pay attention to the effects of globalization on American society - cities, jobs, the safety net, immigration, gender and race, public and private debt, etc. Finally the course will cover the economic, environmental, and cultural consequences of globalization for the Third World and the reactions (including the forms of Jihad) of the Third World. We will end with a discussion of the emerging geostrategic triad of the U.S., European Union, and East Asia (led by China) and the various scenarios about social, political, and cultural changes in the next 30-50 years.
Prerequisite:
Any lower level or 2000-level sociology course
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the sociology of economic development and social, political, and cultural change. We will study the concepts, theories, historical processes, and issues regarding the interrelations and transformations of the social groups, economies, political systems, and cultures of developing societies – and their relationships with developed countries – over time. Thus, our focus will be on developing countries, our scope will be global and long-term, our perspective will be sociological but interdisciplinary, and our methodology will be historical-comparative. The primary questions we will address are: What is development? How do “developing societies” differ from “developed societies”? What are the relationships of “developing” and “developed” societies? How can we best approach an understanding of why the historical experiences of “developing” countries seem to differ so much from those of “developed” countries”? In the first half of the course, we will focus on understanding, largely through case studies, the main theories of development: modernization theory, dependency, world-system analysis, and neoliberalism. In the second half of the course, we will expand our empirical and theoretical understanding by examining development and globalization, gender, ethnicity, ecology, and global social movements. Note: Course formerly called “Sociology of International Development.”
Prerequisite:
ENGLISH 0802 or equivalent
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