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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits). Studies survey research methods and puts them into practice. Students construct a survey, choose a sample of respondents, administer the survey and analyze the data. Explores the process of data analysis using SPSS and reflects on the strengths and limitations of quantitative research to understand social life. Prerequisites: SOAN 100, SOAN 102 or 104, and two SOAN courses at the 200-level or above, or permission. Offered as needed. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Focus on the definition of the individual and the meaning of individuality in society. Concentration on the study of the "self"allows students to see how the individual is both created from, and a creator of, the social order. Language and basic processes of social interaction are explored. Prerequisite: SOAN 100 or 102 or permission. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). Designed to deepen our understanding of homelessness in the U.S. and hunger world wide. Through classroom study and field experience, the course explores the social, economic, and political cause of these problems. Prerequisite: SOAN 100, 102, permission. Offered as needed. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Theoretical and substantive analysis of the major dimensions of economic inequality in industrial societies. The theoretical contributions from Marx and Weber to contemporary theory are used as context for the study of social stratification, social mobility, and changes in these processes in the United States, Western Europe, and socialist states. Prerequisite: SOAN 100 or 102 or permission. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits). Introduces political relations and the relationship between culture and power through the detailed examination of politicized forms of power and their manifestations at the global, state, national, local, and personal level. Central themes will be equality and inequality, practices of belonging and exclusion, strategies and forms of domination and resistance, and shifts in legal and bureaucratic effects and practices. Prerequisites: SOAN 102 and junior standing. Offered in alternate years. NU only.
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Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Examination of the determinants of racial and ethnic relations in the United States and other countries. Analysis of socio-historical development and politico-economic structures that produce patterns of oppressive relations and minority reactions. Prere - quisite: SOAN 100 or 102 or permission. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Exploration of definitions of crime and delinquency and various explanations of criminal behavior. Emphasis on political and economic aspects of the criminal justice system as well as the history and application of different philosophies of punishment. Alternatives to the existing system are explored. Prerequisite: SOAN 100 or 102, or GOVT 111, or permission. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Critical examination of the process of urbanization and the consequences for social life in the United States and globally. Examination of classical and contemporary theories of urban social change alongside current urban ethnography. Prerequisite: SOAN 100 or 102 or permission. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Sociologists have long been interested in religions because they tell about the forces shaping society. Examines several contemporary American religions with an eye to understanding religious and social change. Examines what is happening to the religious landscape as a whole and what that might mean for other parts of society. Prerequisite: SOAN 100, 102, or a course in Religious Studies. Offered as needed.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits), or May Term (3 credits). Examines the family as a social institution shaped by systems of class, race, gender, and sexuality. Investigates social norms about gender roles, domesticity, the tensions between work and family life, and how they are experienced in the context of family rituals and relationships. Studies policies addressing contemporary family problems. Prerequisite: SOAN 100, 102, and one 200- level SOAN course. Offered as needed. NU and EV only.
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