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  • SOC 266: Cities and Regions

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Examines how cities and regions are shaped and the social, political, economic, historical, technological, ecological and other forces that help shape them. Focuses on the spatial dimension of evolving societies. Topics include: the development of the U.S. North and South; the plantation complex; the emergence of the industrial Northern metropolis; suburbanization and post-suburbanization; the “crisis of the cities” and policy responses (such as urban renewal); gentrification; deindustrialization; and the debate over the future of cities and regions. Cintron.
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  • SOC 270: Deviance

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    An examination of theories of deviance from a sociological perspective. Particular emphasis is placed on the causes of deviant acts and on the social processes utilized in evaluating these behaviors. Theoretical applications are made to crime and mental illness. Novack.
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  • SOC 272: Social Revolutions

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: ANTH 101, SOC 102 or permission of the instructor. This seminar provides an in depth exploration of a variety of social revolutions. The overarching goal of the course is to discern whether or not a single “theory of revolutions” can be constructed. Are there common patterns to be observed in (and common causes behind) events as separated by time, place, and ideology as the 17th-century “Glorious Revolution” in England, the French Revolution, Latin American revolutions (including the Wars of Independence and the Mexican Revolution), the Russian Revolution, and more recent events such as the revolution that brought the current regime in Iran to power? To this end, students read and discuss a variety of such theories that have been put forward by sociologists, historians, and political scientists and then consider case studies of the aforementioned social revolutions in order to scrutinize these theories. Eastwood, Zarakol.
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  • SOC 274: Sociology of Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    This seminar introduces students to the field of the sociology of literature. After surveying a number of the classic problems of the field, the course focuses on several sociological theories of the emergence and development of the novel. In addition to reading theorists such as Benedict Anderson, Pierre Bourdieu, Wendy Griswold, Michael McKeon, and Ian Watt, among others, there is a sociological reading of several classic novels (for example, by Cervantes, Defoe, Austen, and Flaubert, among others). Eastwood.
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  • SOC 280: Gender and Sexuality

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    An anthropological and sociological investigation of sex roles in preliterate and modern societies. Special consideration is given to the role of innate sexual differences, cultural variation, technology, and power in determining patterns of male dominance. Emphasis is placed on real and mythical female and male power in the context of changing relationships between men and women in American society. Novack.
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  • SOC 281: Adolescence Under the Microscope

    4.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    This course focuses on adolescence through the lens of social psychology. Insights from sociology, anthropology, and psychology are employed to explicate the adolescent experience in the United States in contrast to other societies. Topics include: the impact of liminality on adolescent identity in cross-cultural perspective; adolescence as objective reality or cultural fiction; adolescence and peer relations, gender and suicide; and new technologies and virtual adolescence. Each student engages in a research project focusing on adolescence and identity through either interviews or observational techniques. The final project is a group analysis of adolescence as reflected in Facebook. Novack.
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  • SOC 289: Sociology of the Self, Self-Help, and the Pursuit of Happiness

    4.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: SOC 102, ANTH 101, or instructor consent. Beginning with a survey of sociological theories of modernity and modern identities, the course moves to a consideration of empirical scholarly claims that modern identity is somehow problematic, and modern persons somehow especially ‘world-open’ and incomplete. In trying to understand the emergence of social movements oriented toward ‘helping’ and ‘healing’ the self, the following questions are considered: What sociological conditions underlie these movements? Do they have analogues in other times and places or are they tightly linked to the conditions of ‘modern’ societies? If, in the end, ‘self help’ aims to address problems that are sociological at root, can we expect its remedies to be useful? Are any non-individualized solutions to the problems lying behind a felt need for ‘self help’ possible? PSYC 300:The Pursuit of Happiness; REL 205:Self Help and the Pursuit of Happiness; and SOC289: Sociology of the Self: Self-Help meet together each Friday in a seminar where students become teachers and lead a class in which we all discuss together the work we have done separately during the week. In this way, students become part of a broad learning community that cuts across the many disciplines and divisions that make up the university. Eastwood.
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  • SOC 290: Special Topics in Sociology

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    A discussion of a series of topics of sociological concern. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different. Topic for Winter 2011: SOC 290: Special Topics: Culture and Poverty (3). Some decades ago a number of social scientists came to argue that poverty is partially produced and maintained through culture. This view was criticized by other social scientists who argued that poverty is entirely a product of economic forces. Over the last decade, scholars in sociology, political science, anthropology, and related fields have carried on these debates. In this course, we work together as a research team, trying to resolve these questions. Does poverty reproduce itself culturally? To what extent and how does culture influence poverty? Is poverty, in the end, a cultural phenomenon? We approach these issues through producing critical studies of existing case analyses of poverty in the United States and in the developing world. Our goal in analyzing the case studies is to discern the extent (if any) and limits of culture’s role in contributing to poverty and “underdevelopment.” Finally, we are attentive to the implications of our findings for anti-poverty and development policy. NB: This course satisfies the social science requirement of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies minor if a student chooses one of the Latin American or Caribbean cases. Eastwood.
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  • SOC 305: Power and Society

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of the instructor. An analysis of the concept of power is followed by an examination of the distribution and exercise of power in hunting and gathering, agrarian, industrial, and post-industrial societies. Special attention is devoted to the neo-Marxist, elitist, and pluralist accounts of power in American society and their implications for social stratification. Staff.
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  • SOC 351: Sociological Theory

    3.00 Credits
    Washington and Lee University

    Prerequisite: Three credits in anthropology or sociology or permission of the instructor. An introduction to the main ideas of classical social theorists, who established the foundations of sociology, and to the basic theoretical concepts of modern sociology, covering the period from the early 19th century to the present. The origins of theorists’ basic ideas are studied, along with the nature of their basic works and their legacies to modern sociological theory. The major schools of sociological theory (functional, conflict, exchange, interactionist, and structural) are discussed, along with the possibilities for the integration of various theoretical perspectives. Cintron.
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