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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on historic and ethnographic accounts of patterns of group life. Topics include race relations, economic and cultural discrimination, the intersection of race, ethnicity, social class and gender, and the dilemmas of assimilation and acculturation. Prerequisite, 101 or 110. Irons.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the primary theories and concepts of the sociology of religion. In particular the course will emphasize how sociologists explain the organization and experience of lived religion largely in the context of North America. Topics include secularization and sacralization; the restructuring of American religion; religion and popular culture; gender, sexuality and power; race; ethnicity and immigration; and religion in the public sphere. (Writing-intensive.) (Same as Religious Studies 288.) Maximum enrollment, 20. Ellingson.
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3.00 Credits
Reading and discussion of major thinkers in the development of modern Western social thought. Authors include Machiavelli, Rousseau, Burke, Marx, Darwin, Weber, Freud, Mannheim and de Beauvoir. Emphasis on class presentations, debates, book notes and class protocols. Works examined from historical, sociological, psychological and philosophical perspectives. (Oral Presentations.) Prerequisite, one course in history or sociology. May count toward a concentration in either history or sociology. (Same as History 290.) Maximum enrollment, 24. A Kelly and Chambliss.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of classic and contemporary sociological concepts and perspectives. The theorists covered include Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Freud, Mead, Berger and Luckmann, and Foucault. (Writing-intensive.) Prerequisite, two sociology courses. Maximum enrollment, 20. Ellingson.
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3.00 Credits
Formulation of a research problem, choice of an appropriate research strategy, execution of that strategy and interpretation of the results. Both qualitative and quantitative methods presented. (Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning.) Prerequisite, two sociology courses or consent of instructor. Ellingson.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar will examine how cultural, structural, and political dynamics shape the process of reproduction in the contemporary United States. Topics to be discussed include: competing discourses and practices of childbirth; technologies of reproduction; issues of risk, choice, and responsibility; debates surrounding the "fitness" of mothers; the impact of law and institutional policies on the experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood; the meanings of pregnancy and childbirth; and variation in practices, norms, and experiences by race, class, gender, and sexuality. Prerequisite, one sociology course. Maximum enrollment, 12. Irons, Jenny.
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3.00 Credits
Critical examination of key works of contemporary sociological theory and research. Topics include current issues in sociological theory as well as new directions in principal substantive areas of the discipline. Prerequisite, Consent of Instructor. Maximum enrollment, 12. Chambliss.
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3.00 Credits
How do culture and consumption practices interact and inform one another? In this course we will discuss each, broadly defined, and their implications for the social constructions of race, gender, class, and other facets of our personhood. We will also discuss current trends in local and other forms of ethical purchasing as social movement and personal identity marker. Prerequisite, 1 Sociology course or permission of instructor. Maximum enrollment, 12. Elizabeth Lee.
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3.00 Credits
What role does work play in our lives? How are different kinds of work
valued in American society, and what does that mean for people who
perform them? This seminar examines daily experiences on the job and
the meanings that we -- and others -- make from our work. Prerequisite, 1 sociology course. Maximum enrollment, 12. Elizabeth Lee.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on how inequality is experienced in contemporary American society. We will study how scholars explain social mobility, class reproduction, and the ways class intersects with race/ethnicity and
gender, and economic segregation. Prerequisite, 1 sociology course. Maximum enrollment, 12. Elizabeth Lee.
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