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Three Credits LA This course addresses the moral implications of some of the recent advances in science and medicine. Major ethical approaches to making responsible decisions are explained by the case-study method. Prerequisites: PHIL 300 and senior status, or permission of instructor
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Three Credits LA Students are introduced to three major sociological theories, conflict, functionalism, and symbolic interactionism, within an ongoing holistic analysis of contemporary society. Emphasis is on how the major social institutions, the economy, government, education, religion, and the family, profoundly shape individuals’ personal identities and everyday lives.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA An analysis of persistent and developing problem areas in an American or global context: family, education, politics, economics, ethnic, and gender issues. Prerequisite: SOC 101
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Three Credits LA Formal and informal definitions of deviance and deviants, differentiation of deviant populations, and the organization of social-control activities and people-processing institutions. Special emphasis is placed on analyzing deviance in relation to conflict theory and social-learning theory. Prerequisite: SOC 101
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Three Credits LA Dual Listed as REST 219 An introduction to the specific study of religion which is anthropological, psychological, and sociological. A study of how cultural systems, human individuals, and social structures influence religion, and how religion in turn influences them. Prerequisite: SOC 101
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits LA Definitions of delinquent behavior and contributing social problems. Adolescence as a subculture. The philosophy and practice of the adjudication process for juveniles as well as treatment procedures. Prerequisite: SOC 101
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Dual listed as REST 320 See REST 320 for course description. This course will fulfill requirements for the minor in Sociology or the minor in Public Praxis.
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Dual listed as REST 325 See REST 325 for course description. This course will fulfill requirements for the minor in Sociology or the minor in Public Praxis.
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Three Credits LA This course investigates those processes whereby members of society are placed into higher and lower status based on differential access to wealth, power, and prestige. Emphasis is on the historic and contemporary institutional organization and reproduction of social inequality according to social class, gender, ethnicity, age, and perceived handicap in America within the global context of the modern world system. Functionalist, conflict, and interval explanations of these processes are fully considered. The integration of theories of social inequality with direct experience through the classroom simulation of the social-class structure in American society is a major dimension of the course. Opportunities for involvement aimed at lessening social inequality in community-based sites are also available. Prerequisite: SOC 101; priority to Social Work majors
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Three Credits LA This course reviews the history and sociology of social inequality in America within the global context of the modern world system. But its major emphasis is on how political, economic, and technological processes transform the family, religion, and individual character, as well as on forms of collective and individual resistance to such transformations. The nature of historic and contemporary social movements such as the labor movement, the civil rights movement, the women's movement, and the "new right" as collectively organized activity that encourages or discourages social change are prominently considered. Students form "social change groups" in an identified campus or community-based site. Course content is enriched by a concurrent field education experien Prerequisites: SOC 101, SOC 336; priority to Social Work majors
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