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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Sociology 250 with a grade of C (2.0) or better. Social inequality as an institutional process. Patterns of unequal distribution of wealth, power, privilege and prestige, their causes, and impact this has on communities and societies.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Sociology 101. Social, cultural, and political factors in definitions of health, disease, healing, and provision of services. Comparative study of medical practices and organizational structures in America and selected international settings. Emphasis on change, socialization of practitioners, relationships between health related occupations.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Sociology 101. Social, cultural, historical, and political factors involved in definition of "madness" and theories of mental illness in various societies. Review of research about incidence, prevalence, and social epidemiology of mental illness, as a community problem, and its distribution by social class, gender, age, geographical region, and country.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Sociology 101. Characteristics and distribution of murder, including historical and cross-cultural comparisons. Social psychological, structural, cultural and situational explanations of causes and consequences of juvenile, gang, domestic, mass, serial and sexual murders.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Sociology 101. Social origins, forms, and functions of criminal law. Sociological theories about causes and consequences of crime. Measurement and distribution of violent crimes, property crimes, victimless crimes, white collar crime, and their impact on communities and society.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Sociology 101. Sociological theories about causes and consequences of juvenile delinquency. Social origins of juvenile justice system, with attention to methods of control and prevention at community and national levels.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Sociology 101. Conformity and nonconformity; the relationship between individual liberty and social control; stigma and the labeling of deviant behavior such as prostitution, alcoholism, drug addiction, and crime.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Sociology 101 and completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations II.B., Social and Behavioral Sciences required for nonmajors. Social change at the interpersonal, institutional, and societal levels of analysis. Major economic, political, technological, and demographic forces that have shaped the contemporary world. Topics may include modernization, industrialization, urbanization, revolution, and prospects of social change in rich and poor nations.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Sociology 101. Processes of social behavior in masses and groups, including crowd behavior, mass hysteria, riots, mobs, fads, fashions, crazes, panics, rumors, and scapegoating. Sects and cults; social movements; the effects of mass communications and propaganda.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Sociology 101. Revolutionary and reform movements in relationship to the larger society. Conditions leading to development of social movements, emergence of leadership, ideologies, strategies, recruitment of members, and social consequences; case studies.
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