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This course addresses the question, "What is a man?", in various historical, cross-cultural, and contemporary contexts. A major focus on the social and cultural factors that underlie and shape conceptions of manhood and masculinity in America as well as in a variety of societies around the globe. (AY).
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3.00 Credits
Qualitative research methods involve the observation and study of people in their everyday lives, in their taken-for-granted worlds. Qualitative research seeks to combine close empirical observation with analytic techniques that demand (and teach) personal and social self-consciousness as necessary to an understanding of the social worlds of ?others?. This course in qualitative methods is designed to acquaint students with field research theories and techniques. Students will gain hands on experience in participant observation, interviewing and the use of sociological scholarship. Qualitative Research Methods will prepare students to gather data, focus the data in a social scientific manner, analyze the data, and then organize it in reportable form.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the institutional structure of American society, with a view of determining the degree of its integration. Students cannot receive credit for both SOC 442 and SOC 522. (YR).
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3.00 Credits
Stratification of American communities and society; a review of the findings of major studies and an introduction to methodology. Students cannot receive credit for both SOC 423 and SOC 523. (YR).
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3.00 Credits
Personal, interpersonal, and institutional significance of aging and age categories. Sociological dimension of aging based on social, psychological, and demographic factors. Attention to social networks and institutionalization. Students cannot receive credit for both SOC 426 and SOC 526. (YR).
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3.00 Credits
Social causes and consequences of population structure and change. How variations in fertility, mortality, and migration arise and how they affect society. Illustrations from the United States and a variety of developed and underdeveloped countries. (YR).
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A descriptive study of the form and development of the urban community with respect to demographic structure, spatial and temporal patterns, and functional organization. The relationship of city and hinterland. Social planning and its problems in the urban community. Students cannot receive credit for both SOC 435 and SOC 535. (YR).
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3.00 Credits
Deals with the forms and modes of change of personality, social structure, and culture; examines their interactions with body/population, niche/environment, and technology. (YR).
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Course begins with a review of the sociological literature on the professions. It will then focus on the medical, legal, and business/managerial professions as case studies of the development of professions in post-industrial society. Intrinsic to the definition of profession is "autonomy." The course will explore what is happening to professions and professional autonomy in highly bureaucratized and corporatized societies, where we speak of deprofessionalization and proletarianization of professions. (YR).
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of health and illness behavior from the point of view of the consumer, as well as of medical professionals, the structure, strengths, and weaknesses of the medical care delivery system in the U.S.; the impact of culture and personality on illness behavior; and a study of the institution of medicine and activities of health care professionals. Students cannot receive credit for both SOC 440 and SOC 540. (F,W,S)
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