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2012-2013 Catalogue

Courses in Sociology

SOC 001 - Introduction to Sociology: Fundamental principles and problems in the sociological analysis of the structure and dynamics of modern society.; Credits: 3.
SOC 011 - Social Problems: Introduction to sociology through detailed examination of a selected number of major structural problems characteristic of contemporary societies. Problems treated may vary.; Credits: 3.
SOC 014 - Deviance & Social Control: Analysis of the causes and consequences of social behavior that violates norms. Examines patterns of deviant socialization and social organization and forms of deviance control.; Credits: 3.
SOC 019 - D1: Race Relations in the US: Analysis of racial prejudice, discrimination, and other dominant group practices directed toward Native, Asian-, and African-Americans and their social movements for integration, accommodation, and separatism.; Credits: 3.
SOC 020 - Aging: Change & Adaptation: Individual and social meanings of aging and old age; physical, physiological, psychological, and sociological changes accompanying aging; individual, family, community, and societal adaptations to aging. Crosslisted with HDFS 020.; Credits: 3.
SOC 029 - Sociology of the Family: Description and analysis of contemporary patterns in American sexual, marital, and familial behavior; their historical development, variants, and the evolving alternatives to traditional normative forms.; Credits: 3.
SOC 032 - Social Inequality: Introduction to structured class inequality in the U.S., causes and consequences. Focus on wealth, prestige, and power. Inequalities of age, gender, and ethnicity also examined.; Credits: 3.
SOC 043 - Survey of Mass Communication: The historical development of the socioeconomic, political, educational, and religious impacts of the press, film, radio, and television in American society.; Credits: 3.
SOC 049 - Science Fiction & Society: Explores works in science fiction and sociology as an introduction to core sociological questions and critical thinking.; Credits: 3.
SOC 057 - Drugs & Society: Patterns of illicit drug distribution, use, abuse, and control in contemporary society. Examines the interaction of cultural, social, psychological, and physiological factors in prohibited drug-taking.; Credits: 3.
SOC 090 - Intro to Soc Theory/Methods: This course, required for Sociology minors, introduces students to important theoretical perspectives and research methods in sociology that social scientists use to answer sociological questions.; Credits: 3.
SOC 095 - Introductory Special Topics: See Schedule of Courses for specific titles.; Credits: 1-18.
SOC 096 - Introductory Special Topics: See Schedule of Courses for specific titles.; Credits: 1-18.
SOC 100 - Fund of Social Research: Introduction to research methods in social science. Includes examination of research design, measurement, data collection, data analysis, and the presentation and theoretical interpretation of research findings. Prerequisite: Three hours of sociology or six hours in a related social science, or instructor permission, plus STAT 051 or higher. Cross-listed with POLS 181.; Credits: 4.
SOC 101 - Developm't Sociological Theory: intensive. Prerequisites: Six hours of sociology or equivalent preparation in another social science with instructor's permission. female theorists such as Martineau. Reading and writing Classical sociological theory including Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Mead, as well as DuBois and early; Credits: 3.
SOC 102 - Population, Environment & Soc: Analysis of the causes and consequences of varying relationships among population size, distribution and composition, social organization, technology, and resource base. Prerequisite: Three hours of sociology.; Credits: 3.
SOC 103 - Environ Crises Modern Society: Examines global, national, and local ecological crises both empirically and theoretically. Emphasis on economic processes, political/legal aspects, and social activism. Prerequisite: Three hours of sociology.; Credits: 3.
SOC 105 - The Community: Comparative examination of patterns of social interaction in social groups with common territorial bases in contemporary societies and the analysis of community structure and dynamics. Prerequisite: Three hours of sociology.; Credits: 3.
SOC 109 - The Self & Social Interaction: Analysis of the roles of sociocultural and situational factors in individual behavior and experience and the social genesis, development, and functioning of human personality. Prerequisite: Three hours of sociology or Psychology 1.; Credits: 3.
SOC 114 - Sociology of Punishment: This course explores the concept of punishment from sociological perspective. Focus is on analysis of formal and informal punishment, and the ironies of punishment/social control. Prerequisite: 3 credits sociology; Credits: 3.
SOC 115 - Crime: Analysis of the nature and types of behavior that violates law, the mechanisms for defining such behaviors as criminal and their causes and consequences. Prerequisite: Three hours of sociology.; Credits: 3.
SOC 118 - Race, Crime & Criminal Just: A comprehensive examination of race, gender, and class on racial minorities' participation in criminal activities and how individuals are treated by the criminal justice system. Prerequisite: Three hours of sociology.; Credits: 3.
SOC 119 - D1: Race & Ethnicity: (Same as Anthropology 187.) Description and analysis of ethnic, racial, and religious groups in the U.S. Examination of social/cultural patterns in the larger society and in these groups themselves. Prerequisite: Three hours of sociology.; Credits: 3.
SOC 120 - Aging in Modern Society: Analysis of contemporary needs and problems of the elderly, including discrimination, poverty, health care, and loneliness, and the evaluation of services and programs for the elderly. Prerequisite: Three hours of sociology or professional experience working with the elderly.; Credits: 3.
SOC 121 - Sociology of Disaster: Examination of disasters (natural, technological, intentional) using a sociological, critical lens. Analysis of research, theories, and current debates in the field of disaster sociology. Pre/co-requisites: Three hours of sociology or equivalent with intructor permission; sophomore standing.; Credits: 3.
SOC 122 - D2:Women & Gender in Society: Examination of the construction of gender in women's lives with an emphasis on the relationship between gender, race, sexuality and class in contemporary society. Pre/co-requisites: Three hours of sociology or WGST 73. Cross-listing: WGST 101.; Credits: 3.
SOC 128 - Sociology of Childhood: Examination of socio-historical changes in the construction of childhood and experiences of children; applications of interpretive approaches in contemporary sociology to analyze children's peer cultures. Prerequisites:three hours Sociology.; Credits: 3.
SOC 130 - Sociology of Heterosexuality: Examination of heterosexuality as cultural production with attention to how heterosexuality works along side other forms of social power especially gender, race, and class. Pre/co-requisites: Three hours of Sociology, preferably Sociology 1 or WGST 73 or 75. Crosslist: WGST 130.; Credits: 3.
SOC 132 - Affluence & Poverty in Mod Soc: Examination of structured social inequality in contemporary American society with special attention to the distribution of wealth and its relationship to power, prestige, and opportunity. Prerequisite: Three hours of sociology.; Credits: 3.
SOC 145 - Youth and Popular Culture: Examination of the historical and contemporary development of children's popular culture, its sociocultural significance, and children's perspectives on various cultural forms. Prerequisites: three hours of Sociology.; Credits: 3.
SOC 148 - Sociology of News: Explores sociological processes that shape the news, controversies about the news, and ways to interpret the news critically. Prerequisites: 3 hours of Sociology; Credits: 3.
SOC 150 - Popular Culture: Analysis of social significance of a selected range of contemporary non-elite cultural forms in the U.S., such as rock music, television programming, and popular literature. Prerequisite: Three hours of sociology.; Credits: 3.
SOC 151 - Sociology of Religion&Ideology: Beliefs and value systems and their institutional arrangements, focusing on relationships between these systems and the larger social structure, in cross-cultural and historical perspective. Prerequisites: Three hours of sociology or six hours of religion.; Credits: 3.
SOC 154 - Social Org of Death & Dying: Comparative examination of sociocultural adaptations to mortality with special attention to family, medical, legal, religious, and economic responses to fatal illness and death in contemporary society. Prerequisite: Three hours of sociology.; Credits: 3.
SOC 155 - Culture, Health and Healing: Introduction to medical anthropology. Social and cultural perspectives on health and illness experiences, doctor-patient interactions, healing practices, and access to health and health care. Prerequisites: three hours of Sociology or ANTH 21. Crosslist: ANTH 174.; Credits: 3.
SOC 156 - Sociology of Freakishness: This course considers how American popular culture was born of the display of racial, cultural, sexual and bodily "freaks." Prerequisite: Three hours of sociology; Credits: 3.
SOC 160 - Our Consuming Society: A critical look at the things we buy and our motivations for buying them, and a consideration of collective action solutions to over-consumption. Prerequisites: three hours of sociology.; Credits: 3.
SOC 161 - Sociology of Leisure: Analysis of the sociocultural organization of nonwork activity, emphasizing the relationships of class, life style, education, and work to contemporary recreation and leisure use patterns. Prerequisite: Three hours of sociology.; Credits: 3.
SOC 171 - D2:Soc Chng&Dev Persp 3rd Wrld: Perspectives on development in the Third World. Prerequisite: Three hours in sociology.; Credits: 3.
SOC 195 - Intermediate Special Topics: See Schedule of Courses for specific titles.; Credits: 1-18.
SOC 196 - Intermediate Special Topics: See Schedule of Courses for specific titles.; Credits: 1-18.
SOC 197 - Readings & Research: Credits: 1-6.
SOC 198 - Readings & Research: Credits: 1-6.
SOC 202 - Population Dynamics: Analysis of the factors affecting human population growth and distribution, migration patterns, and the relationship between economic activity and population trends. Prerequisite: Six hours of sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 203 - Adv Environmental Sociology: Examination of theoretical interpretations of environmental problems, sources, and solutions, focusing on the social conditions under which problems arise. Emphasis on writing and individual research projects. Prerequisite: Six hours of sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 205 - Rural Communities in Mod Soc: The changing structure and dynamics of rural social organization in context of modernization and urbanization. Emphasis on rural communities in the U.S. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101 or instructor permission. Crosslist: CDAE 205.; Credits: 3.
SOC 206 - Urban Communities in Mod Soc: The changing structure and dynamics of urban social organization in context of modernization and urbanization. Emphasis on cities and metropolitan areas in the U.S. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 207 - Community Org & Development: Communities as changing sociocultural organizational complexes within modern society. Special attention given to problems of formulation and implementation of alternative change strategies. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission. Cross-list: CDAE 218; Credits: 3.
SOC 209 - Small Groups: Examination of the structure and dynamics of small groups and the interpersonal, informal network of relations that characterize the interaction of members. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 211 - Soc Movements&Collective Behav: Examination of origins, development, structure, and consequences of crowds, riots, crazes, rumors, panics, and political and religious movements and their relationships to cultural and social change. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 212 - D2: Int'l Migration & U.S. Soc: A comparative approach to the migration of people from the rest of the world to the United States with an emphasis on Mexican immigration. Prerequisites: 6 hours of Sociology including SOC 001 and SOC 100, instructor permission. or SOC 001 and SOC 101, or; Credits: 3.
SOC 213 - Women in Dev in 3rd World: An examination of the meaning and measurement of development, sociodemographic characteristics, sex stratification, and effects of Colonialism and Westernization on women's issues in the third world. Prerequisites: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission. Crosslist: WGST 205.; Credits: 3.
SOC 214 - Delinquency: Analysis of the nature and type of juvenile behavior that violates law, the mechanisms for defining such behaviors as delinquent, and their causes and consequences. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 216 - Criminal Justice: Analysis of the social structures and processes in the arenas of criminal justice, the labeling of criminal offenders, and other issues related to crime, punishment, and justice. Prerequisistes: SOC 001 and SOC 100 or SOC 101; Credits: 3.
SOC 217 - Corrections: Analysis of the social structures and processes involved with individuals designated as offenders of criminal law: probation, prison, parole, and programs of prevention and rehabilitation. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology, including 1 and 100 or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 218 - D2:Disability as Deviance: Analyzes constructions of disability as deviance in current and historical contexts such as American eugenics, Nazi sterilization and "Euthanasia" crimes, and present national policies. Prerequisites: Six hours of Sociology including SOC 001 or HST/HS 190 (History of the Holocaust); or HST/HS 139 (History of Germany); or instructor permission. and SOC 100, or SOC 001 and SOC 101;; Credits: 3.
SOC 219 - D1: Race Relations: Examination of American racial subordination in social and historical perspective. Analysis of interracial contacts, racial subcultures and social structures, and responses to racial prejudice and discrimination. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 220 - Internship in Gerontology: Supervised service or research internship integrating theoretical and practical gerontological issues. Prerequisites: 6 hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101 or instructor permission or 20, 120; 221 or 222; or equivalent gerontological preparation; Credits: 3.
SOC 221 - Disaster & Vulnerability: This seminar explores disaster events in depth, paying particular attention to how differential vulnerability affects impacts and recovery. Prerequisite: SOC 001 and SOC 101, or SOC 001 and SOC 100, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 222 - Aging & Ethical Issues: Analysis of selected ethical issues posed by an aging society and faced by older persons, their families, health care and service providers, and researchers. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 223 - Sociology of Reproduction: Examines reproduction of cultural values in relation to social conduct of reproduction of human life (childbearing) under advanced capitalism. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology to include one of 29, 122, or 229. Crosslist: WGST 201.; Credits: 3.
SOC 224 - Health Care and Aging: Health and health care issues in aging and old age with emphases on chronic illness and health care institutions, occupations, financing, and long-term care. Prerequisite: 6 hours of Sociology including SOC 001 and SOC 100, or SOC 001 and SOC 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 225 - Organizations in Mod Society: Examination of basic classical and contemporary theory and research on the human relations, internal structures, environments, types, and general properties of complex organizations and bureaucracies. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 229 - Family as Social Institution: Examination of the institution of the American family in cross-cultural and historical perspective. Theories and research on family continuity, change, and institutional relationships explored. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 232 - Social Class & Mobility: Comparative and historical analysis of causes, forms, and consequences of structured social inequality in societies. Examination of selected problems in contemporary stratification theory and research. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 240 - Political Sociology: Examination of the social organizations of power and authority in modern societies and the dynamics and institutional relationships of political institutions, interest groups, parties, and the public. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including SOC 001 and SOC 100, or SOC 001 and SOC 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 243 - Mass Media in Modern Society: Intensive examination of selected topics in the structure of media organizations and their relationships to and impacts upon the major institutions and publics of contemporary issues. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 250 - Sociology of Culture: The relations of cultural forms and subjective experience to social structure and power; in-depth applications of interpretive approaches in contemporary sociology. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 251 - Sociology of Ideology&Religion: SOC 001 and SOC 100, or SOC 001 Beliefs and value systems and their institutional arrangements, focusing on relationships between these systems and the larger social structure, in cross-cultural and historical perspective. Prerequisites: 6 hours of Sociology including and SOC 101; or instructor permission; Credits: 3.
SOC 252 - Sociology of Emotions: and explores the existence of emotions in non-human animals. Prerequisites: 3 hours Sociology including 1 and 100, or Studies the theoretical premises of a sociocultural explanation of emotions; examines specific emotions such as respect, shame, hatred, love and compassion in humans; 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 253 - Sociology of Animals & Society: This course provides a sociological perspective on the human/animal relationship in late modernity. Cross/cultural, philosophical, and animal rights/welfare issues will also be studied. Pre/co-requisites: SOC 001& SOC 100; or SOC 001& SOC 101.; Credits: 3.
SOC 254 - Sociology of Health & Medicine: The social organization and institutional relationships of medicine in society and the role of sociocultural factors in the etiology, definition, identification, and treatment of illness. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 255 - Soc of Mental Health: Analysis of the social structures and processes involved in the identification, definition, and treatment of mental illness and its sociocultural etiology and consequences. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 258 - Sociology of Law: Analysis of the sociocultural structure of the legal institution and its relationships to other institutions: the social organization of the legal profession, lawmaking, and the courts. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 272 - D2: Soc of African Societies: Current social, cultural, political, and economic changes occurring in African societies, including issues of development, the state and civil society, social class, ethnonationalism, and democratization. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 274 - Qualitative Research Methods: Principles of qualitative research design and ethics and data collection, analysis, and presentation. Students will complete a research project over the course of the semester. Prerequisites: 6 hours of sociology including SOC 001 and SOC 100, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 275 - Meth of Data Anyl in Soc Rsch: Quantitative analysis of sociological data; includes table, regression, and path analysis, scaling and factor analysis, and the analysis of variance emphasizing multivariate techniques. Prerequisite: 6 hours of Sociology including SOC 001 and SOC 100, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 279 - Contemporary Sociological Thry: Critical examination of contemporary functional, conflict, exchange, interactionist, and structural theoretical approaches. A number of other theoretical approaches selected by seminar participants also examined. Prerequisite: 6 hours of Sociology including SOC 001 and SOC 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 281 - Seminar: Presentation and discussion of advanced problems in sociological analysis. Prerequisites: Twelve hours of sociology, instructor's permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 282 - Seminar: Presentation and discussion of advanced problems in sociological analysis. Prerequisites: Twelve hours of sociology, instructor's permission.; Credits: 3.
SOC 285 - Internship: Prerequisite: Twelve hours of sociology including at least one 200-level course in substantive area relevant to field placement, departmental permission.; Credits: 1-6.
SOC 286 - Internship: Prerequisite: Twelve hours of sociology including at least one 200-level course in substantive area relevant to field placement, departmental permission.; Credits: 1-6.
SOC 288 - Rsch Meth Teaching Sociology: The development and evaluation of the teaching of sociology. Prerequisites: Twelve hours of sociology, permission of department. Open only to students who serve concurrently as teaching assistants in the Department.; Credits: 3.
SOC 289 - Rsch Meth Teaching Sociology: The development and evaluation of the teaching of sociology. Prerequisites: Twelve hours of sociology, permission of department. Open only to students who serve concurrently as teaching assistants in the Department.; Credits: 3.
SOC 295 - Advanced Special Topics: See Schedule of Courses for specific titles. Prerequisites: 6 hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 100, or instructor permission.; Credits: 1-18.
SOC 296 - Advanced Special Topics: See Schedule of Courses for specific titles. Prerequisites: 6 hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 1-18.
SOC 297 - Readings & Research: Prerequisites: 6 hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 1-6.
SOC 298 - Readings & Research: Prerequisites: 6 hours of Sociology included 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, or instructor permission.; Credits: 1-6.

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