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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: any Soc 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269. Social causes and consequences of inequality in America. Social distribution of wealth, power and status; emphasis on poverty and racial social inequality.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: any Soc 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269. Sociological and social-psychological significance of work; factors affecting contemporary career patterns/ life cycle changes; sex, race, ethnic and social class differences; structural characteristics of selected occupational areas.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: any Soc 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269 or equivalent, preferably 268 or a course with equivalent content concerning gender. Examines the relationship between gender and education within the U.S. context and internationally. We will consider girls and boys, women and men, in various levels of schooling. The ways in which race and class interact with gender in educational attainment and achievement also will be examined.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: any SOC 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269 or equivalent, preferably in minority relations. Provides a review of historical, theoretical and empirical work in the sociology of race and ethnicity. Emphasis on primary material in the areas of ethnic assimilation, racial attitudes, and racial and ethnic inequality in the United States.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: any Soc 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269 and 302. Historical sociology is cross-disciplinary in theory and method, examining the interrelation of historical attention to detail and the sociological focus on general patterns. The application of conceptual frameworks and quantitative methods to specific historical events are elaborated to this end.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: Any Soc 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269. Introduces students to some of the central theoretical perspectives on communities, cities, and the processes of urbanization and offers an overview of the challenges facing contemporary urban dwellers. Focuses on how political, social and economic forces have helped to shape processes of urban development and how this urbanization has reshaped the physical form, social structure, and functions of communities. Contemporary urban challenges such as concentrated poverty, residential segregation, riots, structural deterioration, and economic and political restructuring will receive central attention, as will issues of global urban development and theories about the future of cities.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: Any one of Soc 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269. Examines the sociological studies of criminal justice policy formation and change. Outlines connections between criminal justice policy planning, program design, organizational structure and process considerations, and various methods used to assess change processes and to evaluate program outcomes.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: any Soc 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269. Sex and age status definitions and role-taking; historical, institutional and social process aspects of maturation, with special emphasis on Western industrial society from the 18th century to the present.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: any Soc 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269. Critical analysis of the history and structure of formal social control, including the asylum and corrections. Emphasizes the role of institutions in regulating the poor and marginal populations; contemporary control practices; men's versus women'sprisons; failure of community corrections; probation and parole; and the future of therapeutic and correctional institutions.
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5.00 Credits
Prereq: any one of SOC 221, 251, 255, 260, 268, 269. An analysis of families in their institutional context through the comparative study of family life in one or more societies outside the United States. This analysis could be of a single society or of multiple societies with the goal of enhancing our understanding of the diversity of family life and the ways in which family life is shaped by and helps shape other institutions.
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