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3.00 Credits
The European integration and its institutional result, the European Union, is one of the most outstanding political constructions of modern history. But geopolitical, social, ecological, conditions have changed dramatically. The aim of the course is to make students familiar with the construction process, exploring internal and external obstacles and deficiencies as well as unutilized potentials.
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3.00 Credits
The course will focus on intertwining processes of transformation and the construction and de-construction of social trust in East Central Europe before and after 1989. The introduction to the course clarifies the conceptual and theoretical framework of analysis with special regard to theories of civil society, democracy and social trust and provides a historical background of social and political change in East Central Europe from 1968 through the fermenting decade of the '80s to the present.
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3.00 Credits
Instrumental in the formation and transformation of the social order, food is an indicator of collective as well as individual aspirations and assumptions. We shall look at the production and consumption of food, both material and symbolic, from the eating in the Bible to globalization in the 21st century.
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3.00 Credits
The immigrant experience in the United States. Topics include ideologies of the melting pot; social, cultural, and economic life of earlier immigrants; the distinctiveness of the African-American experience; recent surge of new immigrants (Asians, Latinos, West Indians); Proposition 187 and changing American views of immigration.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOCI BC1003 or equivalent social science course and permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Identification of the distinctive elements of sociological perspectives on society. Readings confront classical and contemporary approaches with key social issues that include power and authority, culture and communication, poverty and discrimination, social change, and popular uses of sociological concepts.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the contours, causes, and consequences of social inequality in contemporary American society. Our objective is to put contemporary American inequalities into sharper perspective by comparing them to inequalities in other contemporary societies and in American history. Our comparisons will focus predominantly on other wealthy democratic societies, those most like the United States. However, the theoretical concepts developed in the course will be useful for students with an interest in a range of other countries.
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3.00 Credits
Required for all sociology majors. Prerequisite: at least one sociology course or the instructor's permission. Theoretical accounts of the rise and transformations of modern society in the 19th and 20th centuries. Theories studied include those of Adam Smith, Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Max Weber, Roberto Michels. Selected topics: individual, society, and polity; economy, class, and status; organization and ideology; religion and society; moral and instrumental action.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOCI W1000 The Social World or Instructor Permission Required for all Sociology majors: introductory course in social scientific research methods. Provides a general overview of the ways sociologists collect information about social phenomena, focusing on how to collect data that are reliable and applicable to our research questions. Discussion Section Required.
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3.00 Credits
Examines social forces contributing to changes in U.S. family formation including declines in marriage, increases in nonmarital childbearing, and women's labor force participation. Analyzes forces affecting growth of "non-traditional" families including lesbian/gay, multigenerational families. Particular attention given to urban, suburban, rural contexts of poverty. Discussion Section Required.
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