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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Examines how various social institutions function to organize and regulate society. Topics include family, education, ideology, law, media, work, governmental planning, and stratification. Serves as a foundation of many specialized courses offered by department, especially those that focus on control of crime and delinquency. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Focuses on causes and meaning of crime, with emphasis on adults. Patterns of criminal behavior, including property crimes, violent crimes, organized crime, white-collar crime, and victimless crime. Critical assessment of criminal justice system as a response to crime. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Examines social factors involved in development of delinquency, including family, political economy, schooling, community environment and culture. Examines various theories of delinquency; rates of delinquency in relation to age, race, gender and social class; and legal system that addresses causes, consequences, and policies of punishment and rehabilitation. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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4.00 Credits
Credits: 4 Introduces empirical design in sociological research: historical development, research design, sampling, methods of gathering data, sociometric scales, analysis and interpretation of results, and research reporting. Prerequisites SOCI 101 or 102, or permission of instructor. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 2
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Credits: 3 Analysis of how societies structure work and allocate economic functions among different groups and classes. Topics include historical and cross-cultural variations in work, human consequences of industrialization, and impact of transition to post-industrial society. Special emphasis on changing position of professional employees and social factors that affect distribution of opportunity among various groups, and growing significance of technology for the nature of work. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Characteristics, structure, and processes of small group dynamics; theories and models of group analysis, techniques of observation and research in small groups; research theory and application of small group knowledge to such natural groups as mutual aid self-help groups, families, juvenile delinquent gangs, and task groups in work sites. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Explores process by which people organize to resist current social arrangements and create alternative institutions, policies, or leadership. Historical and contemporary case studies of domestic and global change used to explore how, why, and to what effect various groups have organized to reject status quo and create social change. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 How race and ethnicity have been shaped by the policies and practices in Western and non-Western societies. Background given on evolution of racial and ethnic sentiments from Western colonial period in African, Asian, Middle Eastern, and Latin American countries as well as contemporary U.S. racial and ethnic relations. Explores how changing demographic racial patterns may affect future definitions of race and ethnicity. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Focuses on family in history and family forms in contemporary societies. Looks at interaction within families and relationship between society and families. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Analyzes macro- and microlevel deviance-producing processes, meaning and control of deviance, and major theoretical approaches to deviance. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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