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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Presents an historical analysis of the meaning, function, and commitment to work of people in industrial societies, emphasizing the United States. Also studies the extent of job satisfaction and alienation from work.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Examines popular culture and mass media through their relation to social processes. Introduces the tradition of cultural studies, especially the Frankfurt School of Sociology and the Birmingham School. Further considers contemporary approaches including cultural criticism, postmodernism and semiotics. Studies media culture as institutionalized in the film, music, television, advertising and publishing industries. Analyzes the relationship between popular culture and subcultures, especially adolescent subcultures.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Explores social processes and the socialization of children and adolescents, including current patterns of generational conflict, generational succession as a social problem, and age gradings and the status system.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Examines patterns of communication implied by senders or inferred by receivers drawn from media. Also explores categories and rules for interpreting and creating patterns; the genesis of patterns in social science, conventional thought, practical experience, and imagination; and their effects on class, ethnic, sex, and age groupings.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Studies the organizational emergence of legal institutions to treat, isolate, and punish the criminal offender.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: SOC 101 recommended Corequisites: None Type: LEC An overview of current theoretical and empirical approaches to the sociological study of sexuality. Sexuality is discussed at both the micro-level, including sexual practices and sexual identities of individuals, and at the macro-level, with a focus on how sexuality is shaped within institutions and by the historical context.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Considers urban and metropolitan communities and their problems, including housing, transportation, urban renewal, race relations, poverty, and suburbanization.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Explores the development of sociological theory and the forerunners of sociological thought, including contributions of Saint-Simon and Comte, Spencer, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and others.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Introduces contemporary sociological theories; studies the historical background of and systematically analyzes sociological perspectives, such as functionalism, symbolic interaction, systems approaches, structuralism, and contemporary Marxism.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Explores religious behavior as it relates to the larger social system, including American religious phenomena and its cross-cultural perspective.
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