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3.00 Credits
Distribution of disease among and within populations is a crutial subject in today's society. Explores trends in medical practice; politicization of health care; contemporary social and ethical issues in health care: genetic engineering, right to die, living wills, and consumer movements in health care.
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3.00 Credits
An intro duction to sociological perspectives on families and US public Policies aimed at families. Focusing on the contemporary United States, the course includes an overview of family patterns and changes over the past several decades, examining family formation and dissolution, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, remarriage and fertility with attention to variation in families by gender race ethnicity and class. We will explore how the worlds of work and family intersect and conflict considering both paid and unpaid labor Ie: Housework/childcare. We will discuss the private family the one in which we live most of our personal lives as well as the public family in which adults perform tasks that are important to society. We will examine how society provides for families that cannot provide for themselves and how society regulates family behavior
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Family role, expectations, hostility, and accommodation in relation to mental disorders; rationale for community care and kin support; preventable stressors; stress responses to war, social transitions, anomie, social isolation, social disintegration; tools of evaluation; prevalence and incidence of mental illness in the community.
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2.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the reciprocal relationship between food and society, culture, geography as well as history; exploration of body image, eating disorders, cannibalism, food taboos, technologies to store and transport edibles, culinary and gastronomic rituals, and genetically engineered food, among other issues. Study of the role food plays in physical and mental health, how environmental traumas such as famine and drought impact on survival, and in which ways recipes are adapted when they migrate to other countries.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This course maps patterns of social change bound up with the rise of modern capitalism and democracy. In this way, contemporary changes in American society are shown to be recent phases in a long process triggered by the internal social in European societies that began over two centuries ago, as well as by European colonization of the non-European world.
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3.00 Credits
The gap between rich and poor is wider in the US than in any other modern western country and it is widening. This course will examine the nature, extent, and consequences of economic inequality in America. The course examines different "life chances" available to different members of society in an effort to understand the question of Who gets what and why?" Students will be exposed to social theories as tools for understanding and explaining social inequalities.
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3.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the nature, extent, and consequences of economic inequality in America. The intent of the course is to begin to unpack the complexity of social inequality from a sociological perspective emphasizing explanations for the distinct Life Chances available to different members of this society. Students will learn how to think, talk, and write critically about social theories as tools for understanding and explaining social inequalities.
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