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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 The first of a two-semester core sequence devoted to the philosophical, historical, theoretical, and methodological dimensions of public and applied sociology within the United States. Traces the evolution of the field during the 20th century, from its inception in the Chicago school and the studies of W.E.B. DuBois to more recent formulations, as these bear on the interplay between social scientific knowledge and public decisions and debates. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 The second in a two-semester sequence that provides students with an introduction to the theories, methods, and practice of public and applied sociology as they are relevant to issues of societal and community importance. Builds on the historical and contextual understandings of the first semester by examining contemporary issues and challenges such as university and community relationships, activism and research, ethical dilemmas of engaged research, and methodological debates. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Analyzes the interrelations between social inequalities and institutional structures, including markets, the press, prisons, mental institutions, cultural organizations, and corporations. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Addresses the social, political, cultural, and economic process of globalization. Explores the limits on globalization during the precapitalist era, the relation between empire and the internal structure of imperialist societies, theoretical debates over the contemporary world system, the relation between cities and globalization, and the link between globalization and social inequality within both developed and developing societies. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Examines the social, organizational, and cultural processes that account for the differential distribution of job rewards along class, gender, and racial and ethnic lines. Topics include the historical evolution of the management worker relationship, job segregation by race and gender, the effect of new technologies on social inequality, the relation between gender and professional careers, the efficacy of governmental efforts to ensure equal opportunity, and the effect of organizational change on racial and gender inequalities at work. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Uses sociological perspectives to understand the various ways in which popular youth culture, schooling processes, and consumer culture intersect in contemporary American cultural life. Examines the social, economic, and political realities of youth as a group and the formation of distinct youth cultures within and outside formal school settings, including schooling and commodity culture, how markets promote and hinder particular educational ideologies, and how coner markets operate as spaces of cultural learning. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Exposes students to the major theories, debates, and findings within the sociology of education, emphasizing the reciprocal influences of schooling and social inequalities within contemporary societies. Emphasis on the historical evolution of public schooling in the United States, the complex relation between schooling and economic institutions, class differences in educational opportunity, and the politics of educational reform. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Analyzes socioeconomic and political change, focusing on the poor countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Offers a basic descriptive understanding of processes of change in these countries and an introduction to major theoretical perspectives on development and globalization, from classical theories of comparative advantage to theories of imperialism, modernization, dependency, and globalization. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Analyzes current issues in the study of social movements, with an emphasis on the ways in which globalization shapes and in turn is shaped by social movements. Emphasis is placed on the relations among the strategies, identities, and organizations bound up with transnational social movements and the relation between the dynamics of global political and economic developments and protest movements in core and peripheral societies. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Examines the scholarly literature on cities and globalization with a focus on the impact of globalization on urban environments and the effects of urbanization on the processes of globalization. Emphasis on the ways in which globalization restructures urban life in the core and periphery of the world economy with attention paid to the effects of spatial dispersion on the character of economic institutions within the advanced societies, the shifting nature of crime and security, immigration, and the cities of the Global South. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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