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4.00 Credits
The social consequences of race, ethnic, and other minority identities as they affect racism, power, and privilege. Racism and ethnic relations are seen as manifestations of stratification and of the competition and conflict that develop over social rewards. Race, power, and privilege are intertwined themes in dominant-minority interaction in conjunction with contemporary social issues regarding age, class, and gender. Minority identity as social phenomenon having broad consequences and considered in historical and comparative perspective.
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Organizations are the fundamental unit of modern society and an important area of contemporary sociology. This course considers various theories of different kinds of organizations, public and private, for-profit and non-profit, voluntary and involuntary, small and large with a specific focus on local not-for-profit organizations. In this class, students will apply their knowledge to organizations in the community and will gain a greater understanding of how modern organizations have an impact on our society and themselves.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the sociological concept of community and then applies it in two modern contexts: the city and the suburb. Studies of the city attend to current urban problems, such as de-industrialization, poverty, crime, globalization, migration, and urban environmental problems. The suburbs are addressed in terms of cultural homogenization, isolation, segregation, and sprawl. The study of cities and suburbs emphasizes race and ethnicity as prominent features in shaping culture and landscapes in the United States.
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4.00 Credits
How human populations grow and decline, with emphasis on urban areas. Impact of fertility, migration, and death rates are examined.
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4.00 Credits
This course is intended to engage students in critical thinking about social responses to the idealized images of women and men around them, as well as the individual decisions they make affecting their own bodies. It is, simultaneously, a case study in the dynamics of social power.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the significance of gender in different areas of contemporary American life. Covers basic concepts, germinal issues, and historical and current perspectives on gender. Topics include socialization, mass media, love and marriage, work, and religion. Particular attention is given to changing patterns in attitudes and behavior in interpersonal relations between women and men.
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4.00 Credits
Comparative analysis of familial institutions. Historical development of the Western family; sex/gender roles, intra-familial interaction; child-rearing patterns.
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4.00 Credits
The dimensions, demands, and directions of modern societies are juxtaposed against the reality of developing societies. Capitalism, socialism, technological growth, progress, and tradition are examined within a critical framework.
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4.00 Credits
Class, status, and power inequalities are seen as prevailing conditions of modern societies. Critical, interpretive, and functional analysis are examined within a comparative and historical framework. A hierarchal analysis of life-styles clusters will occur as they relate to each other and the larger society in general.
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4.00 Credits
Environmental sociology applies the sociological imagination to human interactions with the non-human environment. Topics addressed include: social/environmental theory, the social origins of environmental problems (such as ozone depletion, deforestation, and water pollution), environmental inequality, environmental racism/environmental justice, and the social history of land use, both in New Jersey and around the world.
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