You will then also give a quick verbal summary to the class and field their questions. Every week you will be responsible for completing a two part assignment worth a total of points. Avoid generic questions that do not apply specifically to the course material. We will use these questions to guide class on Thursday. You must submit the questions and participate in class to earn full credit for the week.
Each Friday you will be given a quiz consisting of five short answer questions. We will post the quiz to Canvas Friday morning and you will have until midnight to complete it. You are welcome to use your readings and notes to answer the questions. A substantial portion of your grade will come from a policy proposal and presentation that you will complete in assigned groups.
While you will need to complete a fair amount of work for this project outside of class, we will also carve out class time for you to work on it. This will allow us to offer guidance and answer questions as you work. The parameters of the project are as follows. Refer to the rubric at the end of the syllabus for specific grading criteria.
Stage Two — Identify relevant data and research to describe the scope of the problem. Stage Three — Identify the historical and contemporary factors that set the stage for this problem. I understand that sometimes things happen, particularly in the middle of a global pandemic.
If you need to makeup an assignment, contact us as soon as possible and we will try to make accommodations. I generally try to spare students the high cost of books, so I will provide all of your readings through Canvas. Each week, except those indicated on the syllabus, your TA will issue a quiz during your discussion section.
These quizzes will be a combination of short answer and multiple choice and measure your engagement with the reading and lecture content. Each quiz will be five questions, and we will issue a total of twelve quizzes over the course of the semester. That means that each question will be worth one percent of your final grade. The midterm will be a comprehensive take home exam consisting of 20 questions, a combination of short answer sentences and multiple choice.
While I do not issue formal study guides, I will reserve the Monday of the week of the midterm for students to ask any questions they have related to the test or concepts we have covered in class this is for clarification and elaboration only; do not expect me to repeat an entire lecture because you missed a day of class.
Shortly after class, I will issue the exam to students, and it will be due to their respective TAs by Friday at midnight. The final will also be a comprehensive take home exam of 20 questions, a combination of short answer sentences and multiple choice.
Focuses on how education is related to adolescents' transition to adulthood in modern society. Examines the structure of schooling and the life course stages of adolescence and early adulthood, societal stratification, and intergenerational mobility. May be counted toward either the education specialization or the family specialization.
Topic 4: International Issues in Education. Introduction to key theoretical and empirical work on education and social stratification from an international perspective. Focuses on studies of school access, educational attainment and achievement, and inequality of educational opportunity in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Includes discussion of comparative and case study readings that explore specific themes such as education and social mobility, gender, race and ethnicity, and school contexts. May be counted toward the education specialization.
Topic 5: Social Contexts of Education. Explores school as a social context by delving into the informal processes of education, such as socialization and the organization of social relations. Includes discussion of the school as a site of social relations, social psychological influences on educational trajectories, and the social psychological consequences of educational experiences. Topic 2: Marriage, Family, and Kinship. May be counted toward the family specialization. Topic 3: Family and Health.
May be counted toward the family and health specializations. Topic 7: Aging and the Life Course. Concepts and controversies about aging and the adult life course in the United States. Includes discussion of the biology of aging as it relates to current social issues and trends, population aging and related demographic trends, the economics and politics of aging, the trajectories and transitions of the adult life course, healthy aging, age as a social status, health care rights and responsibilities, retirement as a social institution, generational equity, and the conditions and choices at the end of life.
Examines gender and relationships from social psychological perspectives. Considers how and why intimate relationships differ for men and women as well as the gendered consequences of relationships for mental and physical health. Topic 3: Gender and Family.
Review of basic theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence concerning gender and family relationships. Considers how and why family relationships differ for men and women as well as the gendered consequences of relationships for men's and women's well-being. May be counted toward either the gender specialization or the family specialization.
Topic 4: Gender and Health. May be counted toward the gender and health specializations. Topic 5: Gender and Development. May be counted toward the gender and development specializations.
Topic 6: Gender and Work. Examines theoretical and empirical issues regarding gender inequality in the labor market. Includes discussion of changes in female labor force participation, gender segregation in the workplace, gender gaps in earnings and promotions, as well as gender differences in career processes.
May be counted toward either the gender specialization or the work, occupations, and organizations specialization. Topic 7: Feminist Theory. Examines social categories such as the state, citizenship, nationalism, and globalization from a feminist perspective. May be counted toward either the gender specialization or the theory specialization. Topic 8: Readings in Gender and Sexuality. Presents an overview of sociological theories of sexuality and provides a forum for discussion of recently published works in the sociology of gender and sexuality.
May be counted toward the gender specialization. Topic 9: Gender and Society. Examines the social construction of gender inequality, paying special attention to how divisions by race, class, and sexuality contribute to and occasionally undercut men's power and privilege over women. Emphasis is also placed on moments of resistance and change in gender arrangements. Topic Sociology of Sexual Violence.
Examines the different social forces and dynamics responsible for a variety of expressions of sexual violence existing in contemporary society. Designed to examine these processes promoting social violence from feminist-informed sociological perspectives; explore and analyze the historical, economic, and socio-cultural contexts responsible for these processes; study the issues and concerns with regard but not limited to gender, race and ethnicity, class, sexuality, and political activism associated with sexual violence research in the social sciences; and discuss and critique published sexual violence research based on qualitative methodologies across disciplines.
Topic Qualitative Methods and Sexuality Research. Examines major qualitative approaches to the study of sexuality from a sociological perspective; issues and concerns with regard to gender, race and ethnicity, class, same-gender sexualities, and activism associated with sexuality research in the social sciences; and published sexuality research based on qualitative methodologies.
May be counted toward either the gender specialization or the statistics and methods requirement. Topic Women and the Changing World of Work.
Explores the nature and causes of gender stratification in industrial societies. Includes changes in female labor force participation, gender segregation in the workplace, gender gaps in earnings and promotions, and gender differences in career processes.
Addresses how social institutions that vary from one country to another shape men's and women's economic opportunities and the degree of gender inequality in the society. May be counted toward the gender specialization and the work, occupations and organizations specialization in the sociology department.
Topic 1: Sociology of Health and Illness. May be counted toward the health specialization. Topic 6: Sociology of Mental Health. Examines the social causes of mental health. Explores what mental health and mental illness are and how they can be measured, contrasting the social view with the medical, psychiatric, and psychological views.
Topic 7: Health and the Life Course. Health across the life course; the timing and sequencing of life-course experiences and events with respect to health. May be counted toward either the health specialization or the demography specialization. Topic 8: Biosocial Approaches to Health. Examines the relationships between the natural and social environments and human health and behavior.
Explains how disease, functional problems, and disability are not simply biomedical problems but are reflective of a complex array of behavioral factors and social forces. Focuses on the biologically informed sociological models of health in order to understand how genetics and major biological systems interact with social conditions and experiences to influence health and health-related behaviors.
Topic Education, Socioeconomic Status, and Health. Examines why people with higher socioeconomic status have better health than lower status individuals. Explores the links between aspects of social status and health and how education influences health in ways that are varied, present at all stages of adult life, cumulative, self-amplifying, and uniformly positive.
Topic Gender, Health, and Society. Focuses on the gender dimensions of health, illness, and the medical care industry in the United States, with some international comparisons. Examines the role of women as major actors in changing the health-care system, reducing health risks for themselves and their families, and their roles as health-care providers, public administrators, and leaders in the health-care establishment.
Also examines the role of different levels and branches of government and the relative power of key nongovernmental actors and the media in the formation of public policy and the definition and framing of our health agenda. May be counted toward either the health specialization or the gender specialization. Sociological theories and findings concerning various aspects of race and ethnicity.
Topic 1: Comparative Perspectives in Race and Ethnicity. May be counted toward the race and ethnicity specialization. Topic 8: Race, Media, and Culture. Topic 9: Race and the Body. Explores theories and research methodologies in the sociological study of the body, with a focus on race, racism, gender, and sexualities. May be counted toward either the race and ethnicity specialization or the theory specialization.
Topic Critical Theories of Race and Racism. Introduction to global perspectives on race, ethnicity, and racism. Examines the historical relationship between the emergence of ideas about race and Western modernity: importance of slavery and European colonialism in producing modern understandings of race and racial difference; contemporary racial formation in the period after the anticolonial struggles of the mid-twentieth century.
May be counted toward the race and ethnicity specialization or the theory specialization. Topic Stratification and Social Mobility. May be counted toward the work, occupations, and organizations specialization.
Topic Nongovernmental Organizations in the Developing World. Explores how nongovernmental organizations reflect local and international initiatives related to human rights, the environment, sustainable development, health, education, and much more.
Topic Sociology of Poverty in the United States. Review of selected sociological literature on poverty and related aspects of inequality, mostly in the United States but with some comparisons made with other developed nations. Both quantitative and qualitative research on American poverty are considered. Topic Entrepreneurship and Incubation. Substantive issues and current topics in the study of crime, law, and deviance.
Topic 1: Criminology. Examines major topics in the social scientific study of crime, including the measurement of crime, profiles of criminals, criminal behavior across the life course, and public perceptions of and reactions to crime. May be counted toward the crime, law and deviance specialization. Topic 2: Theories of Crime Causation. Focuses on the major theories of criminal behavior and whether and in what ways empirical data support or refute various theoretical perspectives.
May be counted toward the crime, law, and deviance specialization. Topic 3: Criminal Justice. Designed to provide an overview of research on how the penal system works in practice by examining the empirical literature on sentencing, prisons, recidivism, and evaluation research of penal programs. Topic 4: Introduction to Law and Society. Focuses on the noncrime aspects of the legal system, especially civil justice; the pursuit of perceived legal entitlements and grievances; studies of legal professionals and legal decision makers; and the use of the legal system to advance social change.
Topic 5: Law, Legitimacy, and Control. Explores the interconnections between law, morality, and the sense of injustice. Examines the attributes of a moral system as they influence the collective assessment of legitimacy, the emergence of social movements for reform, and the resulting efficacy of law as an instrument of control. May be counted toward either the crime, law, and deviance specialization or the political sociology specialization.
Topic 6: Deviance. Examines the characteristics, causes of, and societal reactions to several types of deviant behavior. Topic 1: Political Sociology. May be counted toward the political sociology specialization. Topic 2: Social Movements. Topic 3: Social Change. Topic 6: Elites. Same as Government L Topic Elites. May be counted toward the political sociology specialization in the sociology degree program. Topic 7: Peace, Conflict, and Violence. Topic 8: Cultural Sociology. May be counted toward the political sociology and religion specializations.
Topic 9: Economic Development and Social Change. May be counted toward the political sociology, development, and globalization specialization. Sociology D Topic 1 and P Topic 9 may not both be counted.
Topic Introduction to the Sociology of Latin America. Same as Latin American Studies Topic Topic Mexican Political System in Transition. May be counted toward the political sociology, development and globalization specialization.
Sociology D Topic 3 and P Topic 11 may not both be counted. Topic Gender and Politics. Provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of women's entry into politics internationally, the current state of women's political representation across countries and regions, and contemporary debates on why and how women's access to political power varies across countries.
May include discussion of the ways in which gender intersects with other social identities, such as race, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation. May be counted toward either the political sociology specialization or the gender specialization. Same as Latin American Studies Topic 6. May be counted toward the political sociology, development and globalization specialization in the sociology degree program.
Topic Citizenship and Social Policy. Sociology D Topic 7 and P Topic 14 may not both be counted. Topic Economic Sociology. Sociology D Topic 8 and P Topic 15 may not both be counted. Topic Urbanization. Sociology D Topic 9 and P Topic 16 may not both be counted.
Topic Poverty and Marginality in the Americas. Review of the past and present ethnographic analyses of the nature and experiences of poverty and marginality in Latin America and in the United States. Examines some of the most controversial issues and debates, and explores emerging research topics north and south of the border. May be counted toward the sociology department's political sociology, development and globalization specialization in the sociology degree program.
Topic Bourdieu and the Craft of Sociology. Examines Bourdieu's key notions as they become articulated in the craft of research and writing in his work, and that of others, with an underlying objective of learning how to think and conduct sociological research with or against Bourdieu.
Topic Prosocial Behavior. Instruction steers away from traditional focus of sociology and considers pro-social behavior - actions intended to help or benefit others. Similar to the "positive psychology" movement, which asks what makes individuals resilient and happy rather than abnormal or depressed, examines what makes individuals, groups, and communities sacrifice, trust, volunteer, and generally work together.
A review of the requirements and responsibilities of professional sociologists. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in sociology. Prerequisite: For A , graduate standing in sociology, twelve semester hours of graduate coursework in sociology, and consent of the graduate adviser; for B , Sociology A.
Teaching under the close supervision of the course instructor for two semesters; weekly group meetings with the instructor, individual consultations, and reports throughout the teaching period. Prerequisite: Admission to candidacy for the doctoral degree. Skip to Content.
Introduction to the Study of Society. SOC P. Physical Activity and Society. SOC Introductory Topics in Sociology. American Families Past and Present. SOC D. Capital Punishment in America. Contemporary United States Social Problems. SOC F. Diversity in American Families. SOC G. Culture and Society in the United States. SOC J. Education and Society.
SOC K. Fertility and Reproduction. SOC L. Gender, Race, and Class in American Society. SOC N. Sociology of Development. Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Well-Being.
SOC Q. Environmental Inequality and Health. SOC S. Judaism and Christianity in Sociological Perspective. SOC T. Punishment and Society. Ethnicity and Gender: La Chicana. SOC E. Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Demography. Religion and Gender in America. Romantic Relationships and Family Formation. Social Change and the Future. Social Transformation of Love and Relationships. SOC M. Sociology of Identity. Comparative Religion, Politics, and Culture. Introduction to Health and Society.
Chicanos in American Society. SOC C. Creating the Sustainable Society. Women's Reproductive Health for Nonscience Majors. Social Determinants of Health.
Society, Health, and Happiness. Introduction to the Sociology of Religion. Introduction to Social Statistics. Juvenile Delinquency. Introduction to Social Demography. Topics in Sociology. Political Sociology. Qualitative Methods for Social Research. Consumption in Latin America. Demography of Crime and Punishment. Economy, Culture, and Society.
Fundraising and Philanthropy. All students should contact their academic advisor with any questions about how this course fulfills their degree requirements. Skip to main content. Textbooks and Materials: Feagin, Joe R. Social Problems , 6th ed. Prentice Hall, Race, Class, and Gender , 7th ed.
Wadsworth Publishing Company,
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