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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sociology 201 or consent of instructor. This review of the uses of sociology in practical affairs includes providing theory and data for public policy, institutional reform, social action programs, and social inventions. Sociology's contributions to architectural design, industrial engineering, community planning, and the marketing of goods and services will also be explored.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sociology 201 or consent of instructor. This course acquaints participants with the geography, population, and languages of the major regions of Asia. It is a general survey of cultural traditions, social patterns, economic developments, and contemporary political issues that people in the Orient confront in their own countries as well as in relation to other nations of the world.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sociology 201 or consent of instructor. The focus of this course is on the analysis of minority group relations, especially in the United States. Issues include the nature/range of problems and prejudices as viewed in relation to economic and social class organization; political alignments; regional traditions; and psychological tensions. Course work includes a comparative study of world race relations; the geography and ecology of race relations; the idea of race; and racial conflict.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sociology 201 or consent of instructor. This course offers an ethnographic consideration of Japanese culture. During the first part of the semester, primary consideration is given to major cultural eras (pre-historical, Kyoto, Kanto Plains, Restoration, and Post-WWII). The second part of the course focuses more closely on the kinship system and political, economic, and religious institutions. The approach is meant to develop an understanding of a major Asian culture contrasted against the background of our own society.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sociology 201 or consent of instructor. Contemporary American marriage and family patterns are viewed in historical and cross-cultural perspectives and interpreted against the modern urbanized environment in light of current value systems. Analysis is made of the cultural, psychological, and social factors involved in the changing American family.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sociology 201 or consent of instructor. This course uses a sociological frame of reference to examine the interrelationships between aging and society. The primary objectives are to familiarize the student with (1) the field of aging, (2) the issues and problems of aging, (3) the theories and methods of gerontologists, (4) the approaches, attitudes and social conditions relative to the aging process and experience, and (5) individual aging experiences. The course provides the foundation for the gerontology minor and for future courses in gerontology.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sociology 201 or consent of instructor. Asociological study of the impact of society on the individual, this course analyzes the social development of personality including attitudes, values, and individual differences in social behavior and the processes of socialization.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sociology 201 or consent of instructor. This course investigates ways in which gender structures human lives and relationships and approaches gender stratification from interpersonal, interactional, institutional, historical, and cross-cultural points of view.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sociology 201 or consent of instructor. A cross-cultural examination of the social aspects of human sexual behavior, the course analyzes types and patterns of sexual behavior contrasted with social mechanisms which prescribe or proscribe such activity.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCI 201 or consent of instructor. The course provides a broad overview of theoretical treatments of deviance, deviant careers, and societal reaction to deviance. Attention is given to the role of power relations in the social construction of deviance and social control. The course will entertain such topics as the medicalization of deviance, drug use, sexual deviance, religious deviance, and the simulation of deviance in popular culture and media.
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