Sociology (SOC)
Anthropology (ANTH) and Sociology (SOC) courses are listed in separate sections.
SOC 5161 Principles of Sociology (3 cr.) Nature of interpersonal relationships, societies, groups, communities, and institutional areas such as the family, industry, and religion; social process operating within those areas; significance for problems of personality, human nature, social disorganization, and social change. (Fall, Spring, Summer I, Summer II)
SOC 5163 Social Problems (3 cr.) P: SOC 5161. Major social problems in areas such as the family; religion; economic order; crime; mental disorders; civil rights; racial, ethnic, and international tensions. Relation to structure and values of larger society (Fall, Spring, Summer I, Summer II)
SOC 5164 Marital Relations and Sexuality (3 cr.) Analysis of courtship, marriage, and its alternatives and the basic issues of human sexuality, with an emphasis on contemporary American society (Fall, Spring, Summer I, Summer II)
SOC 5210 Social Organization (3 cr.) P: SOC 5161 or consent of instructor. An examination of the question of social order, including the perspectives of structure and function, conflict and change, social systems and institutions. (Occasionally)
SOC 5215 Social Change (3 cr.) P: SOC 5161 or consent of instructor. Introduction to theoretical and empirical studies of social change. Explores issues such as modernization; rationalization; demographic, economic, and religious causes of change; reform and revolution. (Fall, Summer)
SOC 5218 Eyewitness to the Civil Rights Movement (3 cr.) This course probes the connections between individual biography and history by examining the experiences of activists in the civil rights movement, brought out through interviews of these activists in class. Each week a new participant is interviewed in front of the class. (Occasionally)
SOC 5230 Society and the Individual (3 cr.) P: SOC S161 or consent of instructor. Introduction to the concepts, perspectives, and theories of social psychology from the level of the individual to collective behavior. (Fall, Spring, Summer I)
SOC 5254 Qualitative Field Research (3 cr.) P: SOC S161, SOC 5261, and two courses in anthropology including either ANTH A104 or ANTH A304. Covers the most salient aspects of field research, including taking field notes and coding, engaging in participant-observation, taking on a variety of research roles, creating topical guides and conducting in-depth interviews, and writing a publishable- quality research paper. Students must find a suitable setting in which to conduct their semester-long research project. (Fall)
SOC 5261 Research Methods in Sociology (3 cr.) P: 5161 or consent of instructor. The logic of scientific work in sociology; theory construction; major research designs, including experiments, sample surveys, and ethnographic field studies; methods of sampling; measurement of variables. (Fall)
SOC 5262 Statistics for Sociology (3 cr.) P: 5261 and MATH M100. This is a general introduction to the logic of statistics, both descriptive and inferential. Students learn how to use sample date to reach conclusions about a population of interest by calculating confidence intervals and significance tests. SPSS software is used to produce the appropriate calculations. (Spring)
SOC 5309 The Community (3 cr.) P: SOC 5161 or consent of instructor. Introduction to the sociology of community life, stressing the processes of order and change in community organization. Major topics include the community and society, the nonterritorial community, analysis of major community institutions, racial-ethnic differences in community behavior, community conflict, and community problems. (Occasionally)
SOC 5310 The Sociology of Women in America (3 cr.) P: SOC 5161 or consent of instructor. A brief survey of the history of women's changing role in America with particular emphasis on women's legal status in this century, persistence of occupational segregation, the organization and growth of the women's movement since 1960, the impact of those changes on the nuclear family, and the female self- image. (Occasionally)
SOC 5311 Political Sociology (3 cr.) P: SOC 5161 or consent of instructor. Interrelations of politics and society, with emphasis on formation of political power, its structure, and its change in different types of social systems and cultural-historical settings. (Occasionally)
SOC 5313 Sociology of Religion (3 cr.) P: SOC 5161 or consent of instructor. The nature, consequences, and theoretical origins of religion, as evident in social constructions and functional perspectives; the social origins and problems of religious organizations; and the relationships between religion and morality, science, magic, social class, minority status, economic development, and politics. (Occasionally)
SOC 5314 Social Aspects of Health and Medicine (3 cr.) P: 6 credit hours of sociology. The effects of group characteristics in the causation, amelioration, and prevention of mental and physical illness, and social influences in medical education, medical practice, and hospital administration. (Occasionally— Two-year rotation)
SOC 5315 Sociology of Work (3 cr.) P: SOC 5161 or consent of instructor. Treats work roles within such organizations as factory, office, school, government, and welfare agencies; career and occupational
mobility in work life; formal and informal organizations within work organizations; labor and management conflict and cooperation; problems of modern industrial workers. (Occasionally)
SOC 5316 Sociology of the Family (3 cr.) P: SOC 5161 or consent of instructor. Structure and process of the conjugal family in modern and emerging societies. Focus is on relationships of the family to other subsystems of the larger society and on interaction within the family in connection with those interrelationships. Stress on development of systematic theory. (Fall, Spring, Summer I, Summer II)
SOC 5317 Social Stratification (3 cr.) P: SOC 5161 or consent of instructor. Nature, functioning, and maintenance of systems of social stratification in local communities and societies. Correlates and consequences of social class position and vertical mobility. (Occasionally)
SOC 5320 Deviant Behavior and Social Control (3 cr.) P: SOC 5161 or consent of instructor. Analysis of deviance in relation to formal and informal social processes. Emphasis on deviance and respectability as functions of social relations, characteristics of rules, and power and conflict. (Occasionally—Once per year)
SOC 5325 Criminology (3 cr.) P: SOC 5161 or consent of instructor. Factors in genesis of crime and organization of criminal behavior from points of view of the person and the group. (Occasionally—Once per year)
SOC 5328 Juvenile Delinquency (3 cr.) P: 6 credit hours of sociology, or SOC 5161 and junior standing. Nature and extent of juvenile delinquency; juvenile delinquency and the law; methods of research in juvenile delinquency; delinquency causation; theories and practices of delinquency control. (Occasionally— Once per year)
SOC 5331 Sociology of Aging (3 cr.) P: SOC 5161 or consent of instructor. A survey of the demographic, work, retirement, social status, family, and institutional factors associated with life in the later years in modern industrial societies. (Occasionally— Two-year rotation)
SOC 5335 Race and Ethnic Relations (3 cr.) P: SOC S161 or consent of instructor. Racial and cultural contacts, especially in America; factors that determine rate and manner of assimilation; cultural pluralism; theories and conceptual analysis of prejudice; comparative analysis of diverse race relations in different parts of the world. (Occasionally)
SOC 5337 Women and Crime (3 cr.) P: SOC 5161 or consent of instructor. Analysis of traditional and feminist theories of crime. Substantive areas include women's victimization, women's criminality and incarceration, and women working within the criminal justice system. (Occasionally)
SOC 5340 Social Theory (3 cr.) P: SOC 5161 and either SOC 5210 or SOC 5215 or consent of instructor. Sociological theory, with focus on content, form, and historical development. Relationships between theories, data, and sociological explanation. (Spring)
SOC 5362 World Societies and Cultures (3 cr.) P: SOC 5161 and either ANTH A104 or ANTH A304. Topics announced in the Schedule of Classes. An analysis of the social, cultural, political, and historical foundations of societies and cultures from around the world. Intended for students majoring or minoring in Sociology; does not carry COAS Group III or Group IV credit. May be repeated once with a different topic. (Fall, Spring, Summer)
SOC 5398 Internship in the Behavioral Sciences (3 cr.) P: departmental permission required. Open to sophomore, junior, and senior students who, upon approval of the internship coordinator, are placed in cooperating social, welfare, and behavior modification agencies to receive experience as learning paraprofessionals. The department and agency supervise the work. Research and written reports are required. Evaluations by the agency and department will be made. May be repeated for a maximum of 9 credit hours. (Occasionally)
SOC 5410 Topics in Social Organization (3 cr.) P: 6 credit hours of sociology or consent of instructor. Specific topics announced each semester; e.g., social stratification, formal organizations, urban social organization, education, religion, sport and leisure, medicine, politics, demography, social power, social conflict, social change, comparative social systems. May be repeated three times for credit. (Occasionally)
SOC 5416 The Family (3 cr.) P: 6 credit hours of sociology. The family as a social institution, changing family folkways, the family in relation to the development of personality of its members, disorganization of the family, and predicting success and failure in marriage. (Occasionally)
SOC 5418 The Sociology of Political and Religious Movements (3 cr.) P: 6 credit hours of sociology or consent of instructor. Religious and political movements across the political spectrum will be explored to examine the interrelationships between religious and political social institutions. Transformation of those relationships throughout history will be explored to note the effects of the changing sociopolitical climate in the U.S. on social movement formation and convergence. (Occasionally)
SOC 5419 Social Movements and Collective Action (3 cr.) P: SOC 5215 or consent of department. Change- oriented social and political collective action and consequences for groups and societies. Resource mobilization, historical and comparative analysis of contemporary movements and collective action. (Occasionally)
SOC 5420 Topics in Deviance (3 cr.) P: 6 credit hours of sociology or consent of instructor. Specific topics announced each semester; e.g., crime, juvenile delinquency, law enforcement, corrections, mental illness, sexual deviance, drug use, violence, and physical disability. May be repeated three times for credit. (Occasionally)
SOC 5431 Topics in Social Psychology (3 cr.) P: SOC S161 and either ANTH A104 or ANTH A304, or consent of instructor. R: SOC 5230. Specific topics announced each semester, e.g., socialization, personality development, small-group structures and processes, interpersonal relations, language and human behavior, attitude formation and change, collective behavior, public opinion. May be repeated three times for credit with a different topic. (Occasionally)
SOC 5441 Topics in Social Theory (3 cr.) P: SOC 5161 and an additional course in sociology (R: SOC S215), and ANTH A104 or ANTH A304 and one additional course in ANTH (R: ANTH E200), or consent of instructor. Specific topics announced each semester; e.g., structuralism, evolutionary theory, symbolic interaction theory, functionalism, social action theory, exchange theory, history and development of social theory, sociology of knowledge. May be repeated three times for credit. (Fall—odd years)
SOC 5447 Theories of Social Change (3 cr.) P: 6 credit hours of sociology or consent of instructor. Idea of progress; linear philosophy of history; social and cultural evolution; contemporary theories. (Occasionally)
SOC 5450 Topics in Methods and Measurement (3 cr.) P: SOC 5261, SOC 5262; or consent of instructor. Specific topics announced each semester; e.g., logic of inquiry, model construction and formalization, research design, data collection, sampling, measurement, statistical analysis. May be repeated three times for credit with a different topic. (Occasionally)
SOC 5495 Individual Readings in Sociology (cr. arr.) Prior arrangement, usually in conjunction with honors work. (Independent study and internship program.) (Fall, Spring, Summer I, Summer II)
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