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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Examination of the sociopsychological, political, economic, ethnic, and legal factors relating to drug use and abuse. Theories of causation and methods of rehabilitation will be critiqued. Cross-listed as CJA 340.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the effects of social welfare programs and policies on women’s lives. Analyzes and critiques the ideologies that shape these policies and their implementation. Considers how gender intersects with race/ethnicity, family, age, religion, and place to affect policy outcomes. Specific topics will vary by semester.
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4.00 Credits
Analyzes family as a social institution. Examines the interconnections between families and other institutions, with a focus on family change. Considers how families are affected by structures of race/ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. Examines and challenges ideologies about families.
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4.00 Credits
An overview of stratification in the United States. Analysis of the effects of this system on those who participate in it, through the study of theoretical, ethnographic, and community studies. Analysis of how class affects power, prestige, opportunity, culture, and consciousness, as well as the interaction of ethnicity, gender, and class.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of the social psychology of urban and community life. Particular attention will be paid to the analysis of the culture of public life, place and place attachment, patterns of interaction in urban and neighborhood settings, and the sociological debate surrounding loss of community.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the relationship between talk and social organization in a range of contemporary work contexts. The course uses actual recordings of institutional interaction as data to identify the tasks, goals, constraints, and inferential frameworks that characterize work settings such as emergency services, medicine, courts, news interviews, and political speech. Page 338 Sociology Sonoma State University 2006-2008 Catalog
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4.00 Credits
An overview of sexuality across institutions of society. Uses theoretical, conceptual, and empirical tools to analyze sexuality as a social fact. Explores the social construction of sexuality and how sexuality is socially created, organized, and constrained.
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4.00 Credits
Examines race and ethnic relations in the U.S. from a theoretical, historical, and comparative perspective. Explores the emergence of racial and ethnic minorities through such historical processes as colonialism, slavery, and immigration. Studies the current relations among racial and ethnic groups in the U.S.
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4.00 Credits
Preparation for sociological practice in human service agencies, both public and private nonprofit. Includes training in such skills as organization planning, grant writing, volunteer management, report writing, communication consulting, and group dynamics. Discusses the ethics and professional responsibility of sociologists.
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of the nature and extent of juvenile delinquency, with emphasis on serious or violent crime. The major theories of delinquency causation will be reviewed. The course will be devoted to the juvenile justice system and how it processes youths accused of crime. The nature and function of all major segments of the juvenile justice system will be discussed, including law enforcement, juvenile court, and corrections. The legal rights of juveniles will also be reviewed. Finally, the current policy issues in juvenile justice will be explored. Cross-listed as CJA 497.
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