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3.00 Credits
This course examines the role of religion in constructing human realities. It emphasizes how human understandings of the world and of reality are constructed socially through collective action with religion playing a prominent role. It looks at how religion influences individual and collective action; the intersection of religion with politics and media; religion’s connection to race, gender, class, and sexual orientation; and the connection between religion and science.
Prerequisite:
Any lower level course or 2000-level sociology course
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to explore contemporary issues for Asian Americans through a sociological lens. To do so, we will place contemporary Asian American experiences within the larger social context by examining the social, political, and economic institutions that have shaped the Asian American experience. As such, students will explore sociological concepts of immigration, adaptation, and assimilation while also examining issues of race, ethnic conflict, education, gender, sexuality, social movements, and media representations.
Prerequisite:
Any lower level or 2000-level sociology course
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3.00 Credits
The topics will vary and cover areas not covered by the current roster of classes. Please consult with the instructor for details.
Prerequisite:
Any lower level course or 2000-level sociology course
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3.00 Credits
The topics will vary and cover areas not covered by the current roster of classes. Please consult with the instructor for details.
Prerequisite:
Any lower level course or 2000-level sociology course
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3.00 Credits
Theory is the narrative account, the explanatory framework, that underlies and
grounds all knowledge. Sociological theories are accounts of the fundamental
principles and relationships that organize society. This course focuses on the most
successful sociological theories, emphasizing the work of scholars, mostly
European and American, who contributed the most influential ideas to modern
sociology. Attention is also paid to the social and historical context in which the
major theories emerged.
Prerequisite:
Any lower level course or 2000-level sociology course
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States. It investigates the use of race and ethnicity as institutionalized, official categories that shape individual identity and experience, as well as opportunities and resource distribution. The course will analyze the formal procedures and informal interactions that define race and ethnicity as socially meaningful categories for individuals and groups. The course seeks to make the connections between the macro social organization of race and ethnic categories and the micro social interactions that shape race and ethnic experience.
Prerequisite:
Any lower level course or 2000-level sociology course
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3.00 Credits
The central theme of the course is conflict as a basic social process and the
organization of mass movements to alter political and social conditions. A variety
of social movements are studied: reformist and revolutionary movements;
nationalist, messianic, and populist movements; identity politics and issue-oriented
movements. Organizational strategies and ideological orientations of the
movements are also examined.
Prerequisite:
Any lower level course or 2000-level sociology course
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3.00 Credits
For most of human history, humans have interacted with one another only in the context of corporeal copresence, where they meet face to face in a common physical locale. Now, modern communications technologies, which include the Internet, enable human individuals to contact one another from separate locations in real time. The purpose of this course is to study the ways in which individuals interact with one another under non face-to-face conditions of co-location, and the effects that the new modes of human interaction produce on communities, interpersonal relationships, and the psychological wellbeing of the individuals. Besides reading and discussion, you will have the opportunity to engage in sociological research on the uses and effects of web sites, bulletin boards, chat rooms, and other online social domains. Through these activities, you will gain a better understanding of online human interaction and its impact on individuals and society.
Prerequisite:
Any lower level or 2000-level sociology course
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3.00 Credits
Duplicate Course: This course is not open to students who have taken Sociology 2145 (0145).
This class surveys many topics in the field of family studies: the history of the
American family as an institution; families in cross-cultural setting; ethnic and class
variations in American families; the state and public policy as it relates to family
formation; sexuality, intimate relations and parenting; the division of labor and
social power within families; and more. Students conduct a semester-long project
developing and analyzing, with sociological concepts, a three-generational
genogram (family tree) of one or several families. This project involves interviewing
family members and comparing these families to kinship trends studied in the
course. We use genograms for researching how our own family histories fit into the
broader social history of American families.
Prerequisite:
Any lower level course or 2000-level sociology course
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3.00 Credits
A sociological look at the conditions which have contributed to Japan’s emergence as a world economic force. How do culture, social organization, life style, ideology, and global politics affect Japan’s rapid rise to power? Is Japan a closed society? What significance do factors such as racism, religion, education, family, the military, class, and population changes hold for understanding what has happened in Japan and in Japan’s relations with outsiders, particularly the U.S.? What significance does this analysis have for the future of Sociology in the U.S.?
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