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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the field of memory studies, and is centered in particular on the concept of “collective memory.” What are the varieties of practices¿including commemoration, recollection, collecting, museification, monument building, reminiscence, etc¿through which we represent the past, and what difference do these practices make? Further topics include reputations, public history, transitional justice, and trauma.
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3.00 Credits
Over the past few decades the concepts of self and identity have been at the center of considerable intellectual debate in the social sciences and the humanities. In this course, we’ll explore classic and contemporary perspectives on the self and society, culture and the category of the person. Among other questions, we will consider human agency, reflexivity, self presentation, identity formation, memory, pathology, emotion, and embodiment.
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3.00 Credits
Studies the distribution of rewards and punishments and the resulting social inequalities in cross-cultural and historical perspective. Analyzes negative liabilities such as arrest, imprisonment, unemployment, and stigmatization, and positive assets such as education, occupation, income, and honor. Draws on the literature of both stratification and deviance/criminology. Focuses on the distributive aspects of power and the resulting social formations such as classes, and status groups.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of sociology.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the most recent theoretical and methodological developments in the sociology of culture. Examines the influence of structuralism, phenomenology, critical theory, and cultural anthropology on contemporary sociological theory and practice. Considers the ways cultural analysis can be applied to a variety of pressing empirical problems. (Y) Credits: 3 SOC 559 - Sociology of Science [Print Course]
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3.00 Credits
Topics include science as a major institution in modern society; interrelations of science and society; social organization of science; the scientific career (socialization and professionalization); status, roles, and characteristics of science; science policy studies as an emerging discipline; and technological assessment. (IR) Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: SOC 512 or instructor permission. Credits: 3 SOC 562 - Social Demography [Print Course]
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3.00 Credits
Topics are announced and vary each semester.
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3.00 Credits
Topics are announced and vary each semester.
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3.00 Credits
International study of population structures, emphasizing comparison of developed and developing societies, and the way in which differing rates of population growth effect the patterns of social and economic change in these societies.
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3.00 Credits
A consideration of some of the principal theories and concepts of nationhood and nationalism, with special focus on a number of case studies drawn from Eastern and Western societies.
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