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  • SOC 260: Class,Status,and Power

    4.00 Credits
    CUNY College of Staten Island

    4 hours; 4 credits Historical and comparative analysis of social classes and strata—their emergence, persistence, and change—in different types of societies. The effects of class, status, and power on the quality of life and social relations. Recent changes in class structure. (p&d) (social science) (cont. wld.) Prerequisites: ENG 151, COR 100
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  • SOC 270: The Community

    4.00 Credits
    CUNY College of Staten Island

    4 hours; 4 credits Processes of neighborhood identity formation, cohesion, conflict, decline, and revitalization. The role of women, and ethnic and class-determined groups in community institutions and community organizing. Staten Island as a case study. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100; and SOC 100 or permission of the instructor
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  • SOC 274: Social Welfare

    4.00 Credits
    CUNY College of Staten Island

    (Also SWK 274) 4 hours; 4 credits The social welfare system in the contemporary state. Social functions and the historical, economic, and political foundations of the welfare system, including the structure of transfer payments and the social relations that it establishes. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100, SOC 100
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  • SOC 275: Sociology of Education

    4.00 Credits
    CUNY College of Staten Island

    4 hours; 4 credits The changing social and cultural context of contemporary American education. The relationship between education and social inequality, social mobility, and social change. Issues and debates regarding contemporary education. This course does not meet New York State requirements for teacher certification. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100
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  • SOC 280: Sociology and Politics

    4.00 Credits
    CUNY College of Staten Island

    4 hours; 4 credits The social background of political elites and movements, bureaucracy and the problem of political power, conflict and social class, and industrial and postindustrial society. Readings from classical theorists and contemporary empirical work. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100, SOC 100
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  • SOC 292: The Individual in Society

    4.00 Credits
    CUNY College of Staten Island

    4 hours; 4 credits The social context and meaning of individual behavior and face-to-face interaction. An examination of sociological theory and research, from the classic writings of Mead to recent phenomenologists and critics of psychotherapy. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100
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  • SOC 301: Computerized Research Analysis

    4.00 Credits
    CUNY College of Staten Island

    4 hours; 4 credits This course will help students to acquire quantitative research skills by introducing them to important computer applications in the social sciences. It covers data management and analysis using appropriate software packages such as SPSS. Topics on social statistics will focus on the understanding of principles, selection of procedures, and interpretation of results. Prerequisites: SOC 201; MTH 102, MTH 113, or a higher-level mathematics course
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  • SOC 302: Contemporary Sociological Theory

    4.00 Credits
    CUNY College of Staten Island

    4 hours; 4 credits Theoretical traditions and schools of thought within contemporary sociology including those of functionalism, conflict theory, exchange theory, neo-Marxism, feminism, ethnomethodology, world-systems theory, and historical-comparative theory. Underlying assumptions and cultural biases in social thought. Prerequisite: SOC 200
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  • SOC 312: Food,Self,and Society

    4.00 Credits
    CUNY College of Staten Island

    (Also ANT 312 and WMS 312) 4 hours; 4 credits A sociological and anthropological examination of the ways in which the production and consumption of food shape and are shaped by the self and the social world. A major theme of the course will be the gendering of food through topics such as women’s traditional roles as home cooks, women laborers in global food production, and female body image. Particular attention will be given to the meaning of practices of eating, preparing, and sharing food for the individual, family, community, and nation, and how these practices are influenced by larger forces such as social inequality and globalization. Students are expected to conduct primary research. Prerequisites: ENG 151, ANT 201 or SOC 201, or by permission of the instructor
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  • SOC 325: Social Thought

    4.00 Credits
    CUNY College of Staten Island

    (Also SLS 325) 4 hours; 4 credits Analysis of key trends in social theory from ancient times to the present. Includes the study of thought concerning the early organization of human society, the development of agricultural and feudal societies, the effects of industrialization and the modern age, and the already-significant impacts of the computer age and the Internet. The course is especially concerned with major social questions in science, philosophy, urbanism, and political economy. Emphasis on reading and discussing original sources (social science) Prerequisites: A minimum GPA of 2.75, ENG 111, ENG 151, and a 200-level Social Scientific Analysis course
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