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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes the dominant ideology and values that have shaped American culture - namely the Protestant ethic - and how and why these values are changing.The course also analyzes major institutional trends that have transformed and continue to transform America and the modern world - bureaucratization, industrialization, urbanization, the rise of the business corporation, science, and technology - and the effects of these institutions in producing new personality types, mass society, and rapid social change.The course provides a macro-sociological framew ork.This course meets the U.S. diversity requireme nt. Three credit
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The family is a basic social institution of all societies.This course, which examines family systems as they exist in other cultures and in times past, focuses on understanding the contemporary American family system.Students consider American patterns of dating, mate selection, sexual behavior, marriage, parenting, and aging, as well as alternative life styles and family instability.Three credits.
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This course explores the social construction of human sexual behavior, examining the influence of social institutions on sexuality, social responses to variations in behaviors, and the organization of sexual identities.Three credits.
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This course offers a combined theoretical and empirical treatment of the sociology of religion, the character of religious institutions, the relations of religious institutions with other institutions in society, and the internal social structure of religious institutions.It gives particular attention to the process of secularization in the modern world and the crisis this poses for traditional religion.Cross-referenced with RS 241. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. Three credits.
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This course examines the roots and structure of class in the United States and the consequences of this hierarchical arrangement on everyday life.It focuses primarily on social class; however, the dynamics and consequences of social class cannot be fully under-stood without addressing the complex interconnections between class, race, and gender. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. Three credits.
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This course analyses sociological and social psychological dimensions of race relations, ethnic interaction, and the changing role and status of women.It focuses on the American scene but also examines problems of women and minorities in other parts of the world and their importance for world politics.It also considers what sociologists and social psychologists have learned about improving dominant/minority relations. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. Three credits.
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This course explores the nature of the city and growth of metropolitan regions in the contemporary world; the ecological approach and the use of demographic data in the analysis of modern urban communities; social organization of metropolitan regions and the emergence of urban-suburban conflict; big-city politics, community control, and regional government as dimensions of organization and disorganization in city life; and city planning and urban development at local and national levels as efforts to solve the urban crisis.Three credits.
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The geography of cities is in constant flux.People move in and out, businesses open and close, city government institutes social policy in response to existing changes in different communities.Many of the changes in cities have been influenced by racial-ethnic and economic dynamics.In this course we will examine the ways race has shaped our perceptions of and responses to community.Why are urban areas "racialized" Why does talk of the underclass imply black Americans and Latinos We will focus primarily on black Americans, but will also consider white ethnic groups and other ethnic groups in discussion.In our examinations we will focus on case studies of urbanization and race such as post-Katrina New Orleans, southern migration to Chicago, and Bridgeport.Three credits.
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This course provides an introduction to the study of gender through a feminist lens.The central themes of the course are the changes and continuities of gender roles within the United States, the social processes that influence our gender identities, and the connections between gender, power, and inequality.The course addresses the ways in which the media, popular culture, work, and schools have been pivotal sites for the creation and maintenance of gender performances, and explores sites of resistance in art and activism.The course pays special attention to the ways in which race, class, and sexualities intersect processes of gender relations and social change.Three credits.
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Sex and gender stratification exists in most areas of everyday life throughout American society.This course concentrates on women in the workplace and in sport.It analyzes women's occupational status and the accompanying roles from the colonial period to the present from a variety of theoretical perspectives.Since sport is a microcosm of society, the course treats the perceptions and experiences of female athletes in 20th-century America as a mirror of the inequality within the larger world .This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. Three credits.
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