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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. Crosslists: Nursing 20 and Early Childhood and Human Development 20/Education.; Credits: 3.
SOC 029 - Sex, Marriage & 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 095 - Introductory Special Topics: See Schedule of Courses for specific titles.; Credits: 1-3.
SOC 096 - Introductory Special Topics: See Schedule of Courses for specific titles.; Credits: 1-3.
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. Crosslist: Political Science 181.; Credits: 4.
SOC 101 - Developm't Sociological Theory: Classical sociological theory including Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Mead, as well as DuBois and early female theorists such as Martineau. Reading and writing intensive. Prerequisites: Six hours of sociology or equivalent preparation in another social science with instructor's permission.; 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 - D1: 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 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 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: 1-6.
SOC 196 - Intermediate Special Topics: See Schedule of Courses for specific titles.; Credits: 1-3.
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 213 - D2: 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 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 1 and 100, or 1 and 101; or HST/HS 190 (History of the Holocaust); or HST/HS 139 (History of Germany); or instructor permission.; 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 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 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 publics. Prerequisite: Six hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 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: 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 1 and 100, or 1 and 101; or instructor permission; Credits: 3.
SOC 252 - Sociology of Emotions: Studies the theoretical premises of a sociocultural explanation of emotions; examines specific emotions such as respect, shame, hatred, love and compassion in humans; and explores the existence of emotions in non-human animals. Prerequisites: 3 hours Sociology including 1 and 100, or 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 1&100; or Soc 1&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 - Research Seminar: Principles of research design, data gathering, ethics, measurement, data analysis, and data presentation. Students will complete a research project. Prerequisites: 6 hours of Sociology including 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, 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 1 and 100, or 1 and 101, 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 1 and 100, or 1 and 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: 3.
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: 3.
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.