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R. Levine This course analyzes social structure and social stratification, emphasizing economic class, life styles, differential prestige, and inequality. The theory of social class and its measurement is discussed, and the change and stability of social class is considered. Comparative examples of stratification are examined, although the emphasis is on the American class system. No first-year students are admitted. Prerequisite: SOAN 101.
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This course is crosslisted as GEOG 314. For course description, see the Geography section on the Courses of Study page
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3.00 Credits
M. Moran This course focuses on gender as a culturally constructed, historically variable, and politically contested category rather than an immutable biological "given." This course has two major objectives: first, to develop a cross-cultural understanding of femininity, masculinity, androgyny, and gendered phenomena generally by examining and comparing gender relations and gender ideologies in a wide variety of human societies, ranging from small bands of hunters and gatherers to post-industrial states; and second, to develop a critical understanding of the types of theories, methods, and data that are relevant to the study of gender and sexuality - including heteronormativity, same-sex relations, transgender practices and identities, "third sexes," "third genders" - in anthropology and related disciplines. No first-year students are adm
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N. Ries This course explores the symbolic practices through which people create and negotiate cultural value and meaning. It takes as its starting premise the idea that all social activity is symbolic as well as pragmatic and that, through ethnographic observation, one can gain insight into the cultural meanings implicit in the things people do and say. Students examine formal, traditional rituals and folkloric myths, while looking equally at the diffuse symbolic practices of contemporary life. The course involves active participant observation as well as substantial engagement with theoretical questions anthropologists have posed about myth, ritual, and symbol over the last century. Prerequisite: SOAN 102 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course is crosslisted as GEOG 318. For course description, see the Geography section on the Courses of Study page
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3.00 Credits
Staff The sociology of deviance provides students with a general understanding of the historical development of the study of deviance, the main theoretical perspectives on deviance, and some of the substantive concerns in the study of deviant behavior. This includes conceptualizations and definitions of deviance, the construction of deviant categories and actors, the institutional production of deviance, accommodations to deviance, the social control and formal regulation of deviance, deviant subcultures, the emergence and management of deviant identities, and deviant careers. The course is especially designed to explore the various theoretical perspectives in the sociology of deviant behavior. Specific deviant groups looked at include alcoholics, criminals, drug addicts, prostitutes, serial murderers, death-row inmates, suicide victims, and the mentally ill. No first-year students are admitted.
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3.00 Credits
L. Prisock This course considers the attempts made by black people after the Civil War and up to the end of the 20th century to establish and maintain thriving communities in different parts of the United States. Grounding our analysis in the works of various sociologists and other scholars the course examines the many challenges African American communities face entering into the 21st century. No first-year students are admitted. This course is crosslisted as ALST 321.
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3.00 Credits
M. Loe This course introduces students to the uniqueness of sociological perspectives in understanding health care, and the social factors that influence health care. The course employs several levels of analysis: social history, social interaction, work roles, organizations, organizational relationships, and social policy. The framework for this course will be that of social organization. The primary objective is to show that the social organization of a society influences, to some degree, the type and distribution of disease, illness, and death found in that society. The social organization of a society also influences, to a significant degree, how the system of medical care responds. The values and assumptions underlying the medical definition of health are not necessarily the same as those underlying the sociological definition of health. A focus of the course is to examine race, class, and gender issues that influence the delivery of healthcare in this country. Attention will be given to such topics as social epidemiology, the social demography of health, social stress, and illness behavior. The course also reviews the sick role, doctor-patient interaction, medical health professionals, hospitals and other health care agencies, and the healthcare delivery system in the United States and other countries. No first-year students are admitted. Prerequisites: SOAN 101 and 102, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
C. Hsu This course focuses on the sociological literature on nationalism. The question of the relationship of nationalism to ethnicity, state, society, community, language, religion, social class, and war is analyzed in the context of the study of nationalist social movements, the history of the development of the nation state, wars of national liberation, and the evolution of national consciousness in relation to language and territorial areas. This is applied to current revivals of nationalism and nationalist conflicts, including recent struggles in Canada, Sri Lanka, and the former Yugoslavia. No first-year students are admitted.
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3.00 Credits
L. Prisock This course analyzes the impact of corporations on U.S. society in the context of changing technologies, the growing importance of service industries, and the need to remain competitive in the international economy. This course explores the effects of corporate strategies and decisions on industrial structure, employment, and social welfare. No first-year students are admitted.
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