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3.00 Credits
Formal bureaucratic organizations such as government agencies, hospitals, and colleges are a distinctive feature of modern industrialized societies. Analysis of types of formal organizations, their goals, structure, and consequences for intra- and inter-organizational behavior helps to understand how to deal with a complex world. Students cannot receive credit for both SOC 483 and SOC 583. (YR).
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3.00 Credits
Examination of problems and issues in selected areas of sociology. Title as listed in the Schedule of Classes will change according to content. Course may be repeated for credit when specific topic differs.
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3.00 Credits
TOPIC: Diasporas and (Trans) Nationalism: Gender, Race, and Post/Coloniality. An interdisciplinary and comparative inquiry into historical & contemporary linkages between gender regimes, national formations, and legacies of colonialism as they interact at "home" and in "diasporas." Using multi-media and multi-genre pedagogical tools (conceptual and methodological writings; narratives and biographies; guest lectures; films), we study & critique different perspectives on how the dialectics of geography, positionality, and social structures shape the ways in which we imagine "home", "homeland", and "back home." We examine gendered politics of the colonial project 1) in early days of colonialization; 2) during struggles of decolonization; and 3) "post-colonial" geographies' While becoming familiar with "classics" in nationalism/transnationalism, gender, colonialism, and diaspora, we will explore their applicability to specific case studies in European and American contexts as well as in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
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3.00 Credits
TOPIC: Traditional Constraints and Routine Controls: Violence against Women. Course examines social violence against women outside family and other intimate relationships. Emphasis will be on violations against women's human rights through the life cycle, which are often sanctioned under the guise of cultural practices and misinterpretations of religious tenets. Topics willl include, but not limited to: Sex-selective abortion and female infanticide; female genital mutilation and cosmetic surgeries; prostitution and pornography; trafficking in women; sexual harassment; and women as "verbs" between men in war. We will examine both institutionalized sexism and racism, as part of political, economic, and social systems, and sexism and racism realities affecting individual women's lives.
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3.00 Credits
Topic: The New Americans: Contemporary U.S. Immigration. Immigration reform legislation passed in 1965 has rekindled mass immigration to the U.S. This new stream is largely composed of groups from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. This course examines the processes of and variability in societal incorporation for racial and ethnic immigrant groups within the stratified and racialized society of the U.S. Additionally, the course focuses on the impact of these new immigrant populations on U.S. social institutions (economy, education, health care, social services, religion, criminal justice/legal, etc.) at the national and local levels.
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended as the culmination of a student's prior work in sociology. Each student will conduct an applied research project that draws upon sociological concepts and issues. The product of this research will be an essential component of the student's concentration portfolio.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Analytical assignments in sociology. No more than a total of six credit hours of SOC 398 and SOC 498 may be applied toward concentration. Permission of instructor required. (F,W,S).
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3.00 Credits
The status of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States with particular reference to the social dynamics involved with regard to majority-minority relations. Topics of study include inequality, segregation, pluralism, the nature and causes of prejudice and discrimination and the impact that such patterns have upon American life. Additional reading assignments or projects will distinguish this course from its undergraduate version SOC 403. Students cannot receive credit for both SOC 403 and SOC 503. (AY)
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3.00 Credits
Have you ever been dissed? Why are some people targets of disrespect? This class examines the unequal distribution of power - social, economic, and political - in the United States and other countries that results in favor for privileged groups. We will examine a variety of institutional practices and individual beliefs that contribute to disrespect. We'll look at ways that beliefs and practices, like viewing inequality as consequence of a 'natural order', obscure the processes that create and sustain social discrimination. We will engage in the intellectual examination of systems, behaviors, and ideologies that maintain discrimination and the unequal distribution of power and resources. Students will not receive credit for both SOC 404 and SOC 504. This course is distinguished from its 400-level counterpart by the requirement of additional assignments, including a required additional paper.
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3.00 Credits
This course will offer an overview of sexual differences including: the socio-cultural construction of gender, sexual behavior, and orientation; sex and sexualities in language and literature; and diversity by race, class, and cultural heritage. (F)
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