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  • SOC 2004: Poverty in the United States

    3.00 Credits
    Yeshiva University

    The American Dream highlights opportunities for individuals to achieve sucess based on their own merits. Yet for large portions of the population the dream is more myth than reality. This course focuses on the experiences of poor people in the U.S, examining the causes and consequences of poverty and the social policies that have been implemented or may be in the future to address it, including the various forms of public assitance (Welfar) available at different periods of U.S. history, such as Mothers Aid programs, Aid to Dependent Children and Temporary Assitance to Needy Families.
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  • SOC 2005: Housing & Suburbanization

    3.00 Credits
    Yeshiva University

    Examines urban/suburban development disparities taking an historical perspective to understand 20th century United States suburbanization and current urban/suburban trends. We explore transportation, and housing policies, the roles of banks, mortgage brokers, real estate developers and government institutions. We will examine how government policies, economic forces, and social attitudes affect the way regions grow and develop, and how metropolitian change affects residents by income and race. Other topics include: gentrification, schools, urban and suburban sprawl, and the concentration of poverty.
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  • SOC 2006: Crime, Class, Gender & Justice

    3.00 Credits
    Yeshiva University

    Examines the link between social structure and the criminal justice system. We will look at gender, class, crime and the criminal justice system. This course introduces students to current empirical research and theories on gender, crime and justice issues as they relate to criminology and the justice system.
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  • SOC 2102: Gender & Society

    3.00 Credits
    Yeshiva University

    Exploration of the relationship between sex, gender, sexuality and society are explored. How sex and gender shape the way individuals experience the world and how these identities are shaped by social structures and processes.Topics include: sexual inequality, gender and work, gender and the state and masculinity.
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  • SOC 2110: Sociology of Race and Racisim

    3.00 Credits
    Yeshiva University

    This course will explore race and racism from a sociological perspective, looking at the social construction of race in the U.S. and focusing on Blacks and Whites. We will discuss individual and institutionalized racism, including governmental policies, as well as the effects of racism on income and wealth, education, housing and employment
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  • SOC 2148: Urban Sociology

    3.00 Credits
    Yeshiva University

    What is it about cities that facinates and repulses tourists and politicians, attracts migrants, and enthralls scholars? This course will explore the rise and transformation of metropolitan life from a sociological perspective. Topics include classical and contemporary theories of urbanism, the history of cities, suburbanization, and related policies, urban poverty, race relations and segregation, employment, and inequality.
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  • SOC 2150: Globl Dev and Inequality

    3.00 Credits
    Yeshiva University

    This course first examines development in the first three decades of the post World War II era. We look next at Soviet style communism as a failed attempt to create an alternative to this development project, and then at East Asisa as a regional aberration within it. We examine Mexico and post colonial southern Africa as regional variations of development. We complete the course by examining the shift from development to globalization in the last quarter century, the mounting ecological challenge to globalization early in the twenty-first century, and the specter of terrism and finacial distress in the politics of globalization.
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  • SOC 2161: Race & Criminal Justice systm

    3.00 Credits
    Yeshiva University

    Explores the role in the United States criminal justice system has played in African American lives. It examines African Americans as offenders, victims and workers in the criminal justice system. Theories that explain overrepresentation of African Americans in the criminal justice system are discussed.
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  • SOC 2210: The Family

    0.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Yeshiva University

    Analysis of the family in historical context; functions of the family; analysis of popular myths of the family; changes in gender roles and family relationships; cross-cultural perspectives on the family; divorce rate and the family; the idealized family and attitude formation. .
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  • SOC 2220: Sociology of Children

    3.00 Credits
    Yeshiva University

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