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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Population growth and distribution; bearing on current economic, political and social problems. Prerequisite: SOC 101 or consent of instructor. Applicable to the BG Perspective (general education) social sciences requirement.
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Spring. Sociological causes and consequences of human fertility patterns with emphasis on trends and differentials in the United States, including: fertility decision making, value and costs of children, contraception and abortion, unplanned parenthood, voluntary childlessness, illegitimacy, sex education and related public policies. Prerequisite: SOC 101.
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3.00 Credits
Fall, Spring, Summer. Analysis of ethnic and minority groups in American society; conditions that favor and hinder acceptance of such groups as integral elements in national population. Prerequisite: SOC 101. Applicable to the BG Perspective (general education) cultural diversity in the United States requirement. Approved for Distance Ed.
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3.00 Credits
Spring. Inequalities in distributions of wealth, power and prestige in societies. Types of systems of inequality; caste, estate, class. Consequences of inequalities for society as a whole and for segments of society; educational-occupational opportunities, racial-ethnic relations, social mobility, social change. Prerequisite: SOC 101.
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Fall, Spring, and Summer. This course addresses the social aspects of alcohol abuse with respect to the incidence, causes, and social control of problematic drinking. Policy issues considered include those relating to harm reduction, prevention, treatment, and intervention strategies. Other topics include, fact and fiction about alcohol, the treatment of alcoholism as a disease, binge drinking, and new methods used to treat alcoholism in other countries. Prerequisite: SOC 101.
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Fall, Spring, Summer. History of attempts to define and explain deviant behavior. Social conditions and processes associated with careers of deviants; relationship of deviancy to problems of social control. Prerequisite: SOC 101. Applicable to the BG Perspective (general education) social sciences requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Fall, Spring, Summer. Analysis and processes of development, treatment, prevention and control of juvenile delinquency. Prerequisite: SOC 101. Approved for Distance Ed.
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3.00 Credits
Fall, Spring, Summer. Traditional and contemporary family types; current similarities and differences of family organization in various cultural environments. Prerequisite: SOC 101. Applicable to the BG Perspective (general education) social sciences requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Survey course on research methods in sociology: nature of science, theory construction, operationalization of a research problem, alternative research designs (including evaluation), instrumentation, data collection and data analysis. Prerequisite: SOC 101 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Fall, Spring, Summer. Data presentation, measures of dispersion, correlation, regression, probability, probability distributions, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing and analysis of variance. Prerequisite: SOC 101.
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