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3.00 Credits
The primary aim of this course is to understand the role of class, gender, race, and ethnicity in shaping women's political mobilizations in selected Third World countries and women of color in the U.S. Students study how, when, and why women in Third World countries have organized around certain issues (e.g., national liberation vs. violence against women) and the forms of their political mobilizations, such as revolutions, cooperatives, etc. The secondary aim of the course is to analyze the continuities and discontinuities in women's mobilizations and feminism in the Third World and the First World. Prerequisites: SOC 100, as well as an introductory sociology or women's studies course or permission of instructor. (Staf f, offered occasionally
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3.00 Credits
What is the relationship between how we think about "gender" and how we think about "development," "tradition," and "modernity" Many years of feminist intervention in social processes have provided important insights into this question. We now know that patriarchy is not limited to underdeveloped areas of the world. Women are not the only ones who are affected by it, nor is its effects limited to the home. Patriarchy is not a static tradition but an evolving concept and reality. This course pushes students to see the dialectical relationship between visions of progress and the future and the making of gender relations. Students study how gender relations were formed as a product of the powerful 20th century ideas, policies, and practices of development. They juxtapose women's place in the development project in relation to (academic, activist, and daily) feminist interventions and their distinctive understandings of social transformation, progress, and justice. Prerequisite: SOC 100. (Staff, offered alternate
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an "applied" sociological analysis of the major trends shaping business in the United States and worldwide. Students explore the nature of business organization and management, at the micro level in its institutional forms and the business and management environment, at the macro level as it operates within economic and cultural systems, and within global contexts. The issues of demographic effects, ethical concerns, technological innovation, the role of producers and consumers, and the changing role of government are considered. Prerequisite: SOC 100. (Harris , offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
course focuses upon religion in American society from the post World War II era to the present, using sociological theory and empirical research to form the basic analytical perspective. A survey of the major religious traditions is provided along with an introduction to contemporary cults, sects, and new religious movements. Topics such as civil religion, processes of secularization and revival, social and demographic influences on belief and practice, organizational structures, church and state relations, and political activism of religious groups are examined. Discussion concerning the theological, ethical, and political implications of sociological claims about religion is also encouraged. Prerequisite: SOC 100. (Perkins, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
The study of capitalist and pre-capitalist forms of human labor, and the changes in social organization that accompany changes in the mode of production are covered in this class. Students consider non-wage as well as wage labor in contemporary industrial America. Prerequisite: SOC 100. (Mason, Moodie, offered occasionally)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to explore the impact that technologies have on human beings and their societies. It examines the history of technological development, and particularly the industrial revolution and the current cybernetic revolution. A broad range of topics are covered, including such issues as family relations, work patterns, energy and the environment, domestic and international social stratification, and social organization. The course also concentrates on the empirical effects that such inventions as moveable type, compasses, steam engines, automobiles, washers and dryers, telephones, radio, television, rockets, transformers, and computers (to name several) have had on human beings. Prerequisite: SOC 100. (Mason, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
than 80 percent of Americans and 50 percent of the world's peoples now live in urban areas. Such figures show that the city has become one of the most important and powerful social phenomena of modern times. As a result, it is imperative that we understand the city's influence on our lives. This course provides a basic introduction to urban life and culture by examining the development of the city in Western history. Classic and modern theories are examined in an attempt to grasp what the city is and what it could be. Prerequisite: SOC 100. (Spates , offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
in numbers unheard of before, people are flocking to the world's cities, in many cases, regardless of the fact that when they arrive there, they find living conditions awful or even worse. Why What do people want from cities This course attempts to provide an answer to these questions, first, by considering some of the most important theoretical material on the nature of cities and, second, by analyzing extensive interview data collected in four world cities: San Francisco (USA), Toronto (Canada), Cairo (Egypt), and Kandy (Sri Lanka). The objective, in the end, is to develop a viable general theory of the city, its reason for being, its purpose in human affairs. Prerequisite: SOC 100. (Spates, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
course develops an analysis of power and subordination within civil society: whether or not such power is institutionalized in state structures, whether it confirms state institutions or contradicts them. The distribution of power in society tends to be taken for granted by political scientists, politicians, and state officials, even activists. This course is to develop a theory of power in civil society and to understand how it relates to state rule. Of particular interest are the imperatives of government and what happens to social movements when they achieve state power. Examples are drawn from fragile new democracies in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and South Africa, as well as the United States. Prerequisite: SOC 100. (Moodie, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
The focus of this course is the examination of fundamental social problems confronting contemporary American society. How social problems have emerged or have been perpetuated in recent years, and how social problems are defined and perceived by particular social groups are important issues for this course, as is the analysis of possible solutions to these problems. Poverty, racism, care of the aged, alcohol and substance abuse, the AIDS epidemic, pornography, juvenile delinquency, prostitution, family violence, abortion, children's rights, church and state conflicts, gun control, and capital punishment are some examples of topics for this course. Prerequisite: SOC 100. (Mason, offered annually)
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