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3.00 Credits
This course will take a close look at the culturally diverse groups that make up the American people. It will inquire into their origins, their contributions, and their incorporation into American society. Among the topics that will be discussed are the merits of the melting pot theory and the concept of cultural pluralism. This course will deal in depth with the experience of Euro-American, African-Americans, and Latino-Americans. Prerequisite: Sociology 155 or 202 or permission.
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4.00 Credits
The central focus of this course is the modern city and its setting, demographic and ecological factors, social structures, institutions, and functional relationships among them. The problems of the city and social forces in the making and resolving of them are also considered.. Prerequisite: Sociology 155 or 202 or permission.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the study of gender roles. By examining what it means to be male and female, we will see how different and how similar the sexes are in terms of their abilities, advantages, and the work they do. Moreover, we will look at the methods and theories social scientists use to study and explain these differences. Prerequisite: Sociology 155 or 202 or permission.
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4.00 Credits
The role of social movements and collective behavior in social change is the main topic of consideration. How social institutions are maintained, modified and transformed through relatively unstructured social relations like mob and crowd reactions, fads, fashions, rumor, panic, protest groups, reform and revolution. Prerequisite: Sociology 155 or 202 or permission.
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4.00 Credits
This course is about population, the causes of population growth and change, and the consequences of population trends for human society. These issues will be analyzed from the point of view of the three components of population growth, i.e., fertility, morality, and migration, and the factors, especially social factors, which affect them. Finally, the course will investigate the ways societies and cultures respond to population change, with an emphasis on the socio-demographic future of the United States. Also listed as Management 251.
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3.00 Credits
Forms and functions of family life, using cross-cultural data to emphasize the particularity of the American family. The family as a social organization and dynamics of interaction within it. Prerequisite Sociology 155 or 202 or permission.
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3.00 Credits
Religious beliefs, practices, organizations all affect and are affected by the social order. The course content is on the social functions of religion, the nature of the variety of organizational forms of religion and trends of impact of each on the other, e.g., secularization, religious movements, and civil religion.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the indigenous cultures of Oceana. The region consists of Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, each containing its own unique set of environments, peoples and ways of life. An overview of the prehistory and ethnology of the region will act as a background for examination of representative cultures through readings and films. Cultural change resulting from both colonialism and development will also be discussed.
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4.00 Credits
From prehistoric hunter-gatherers to early civilizations to the Industrial Revolution, archaeology, a subfield of anthropology, is concerned with the study of the past through material remains. The objective of this course is to introduce the methods and theories that archaeologists use to understand past societies. It will also include a thematic discussion of some of the major events of the human past, such as the origins of tool use, the worldwide spread of the species, and the origins of agriculture and urban life.
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4.00 Credits
North American Indian cultures as they have been described since 1500 will be the subject of this course. Lecture material will follow a culture-area approach, moving historically and geographically over the North American continent (from northern Mexico up to and including Canada).
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