Several courses serve as a good introduction to the major:
SOC 001 Introduction to Sociology
Students are exposed to major sociological perspectives, methods of research, and substantive discussions of culture, socialization, groups, formal organizations, institutions, social inequality, and social change. Offered spring and fall.
SOC 014 Deviance and 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.
SOC 019 Race Relations in the U.S.
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. Offered spring and fall.
SOC 20 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.
SOC 029 Sex, Marriage, and 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. Offered spring and fall.
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. Offered spring and fall.
SOC 057 Drugs and 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. Offered in the spring; check schedule of courses.
Note that Sociology 001 is the only Gateway course that is required of all Sociology majors and minors.
Thomas Streeter, Chair
Department of Sociology
Phone: (802) 656-3236
Email: soceval@uvm.edu
Department Website: http://www.uvm.edu/~soceval/
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