2013-2014 Graduate Catalog Downloadable PDF (10.71MB)

Course Descriptions/Sociology 557604. Comparative Historical Methods. (3-0). Credit 3. Surveys key methodological issues, including thelogic of comparative design and analysis of primary and secondary sources. Exemplars of importantcomparative historical research-both classics and more recent publications-will be reviewed. Prerequisite:Graduate classification.605. Social Movements. (3-0). Credit 3. Surveys the literature on social movements including the topicsof movement emergence, movement outcomes, state repression, and revolutions; reviews contemporarydebates in the theories of social movement and new developments in research. Prerequisite: Graduateclassification.606. War and Democracy. (3-0). Credit 3. Sociological approaches to the study of war’s effects on democracyand democratic control of the military and the use of force, in comparative-historical context.607. Seminar in Social Organizations. (3-0). Credit 3. Relevant conceptual and empirical approaches tothe study of selected aspects of social organization. May be taken up to two times for credit as contentvaries. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.608. Social Organization. (3-0). Credit 3. Theoretical and conceptual bases of patterned human behavior;structural, processual and functional aspects of human groups from simplest informal to the mostcomplex formal types: small groups, associations, institutions, complex organizations, bureaucracies,societies.609. Social Change. (3-0). Credit 3. Concepts, theories and methodological approaches to studying socialchange; evolutionary, conflict, equilibrium and modernization approaches. Prerequisite: Approval ofinstructor.611. Classical Sociological Theory. (3-0). Credit 3. Critical analysis of the writings of the principalfounders of modern sociology; Marx, Durkheim and Weber and their influence on current theoreticalissues. Prerequisite: SOCI 430 or equivalent or approval of instructor.615. Contemporary Sociological Theory. (3-0). Credit 3. Critical analysis of current sociological perspectives,their logic of inquiry, substantive claims and application to empirical research. Prerequisite:SOCI 611.616. Political Sociology. (3-0). Credit 3. Survey of the principal social and organizational bases of politics;the institutionalization of political power; explanation of political change and movements of socialprotest. Prerequisite: Graduate classification or approval of instructor.617. Comparative Racial-Ethnic Relations. (3-0). Credit 3. Cross-cultural variations in racial-ethnic relationsand structures of inequality; assessment of systems and power-conflict frameworks in diversesettings such as South America, Mexico, South Africa, Caribbean Regions and United States. Prerequisite:Approval of instructor.618. Sociology of Education. (3-0). Credit 3. The school system and the democratic way of life; relationshipof education to social organization, social change and social control. Role of education in society.Prerequisite: SOCI 205.621. Social Psychology. (3-0). Credit 3. Personality, social and cultural systems; development and interrelationships;cognitive activities, motivational determinants and selectivity; goals, structures, coordinationand related factors influencing complex social groupings. Prerequisites: SOCI 205; 12 additionalhours of social science.622. Social Demography. (3-0). Credit 3. Survey of methods, theories and problems of contemporarydemographic phenomena. Prerequisite: Approval of department head.623. Measurement of Sociological Parameters. (3-0). Credit 3. Sociological research including scaling,scale analysis and experimental design. Prerequisites: Graduate classification; three hours of statistics.624. Qualitative Methodology. (3-0). Credit 3. Exposure to and critical assessment of qualitative approachesto data gathering in social science; topics include naturalistic observation, field research skills,unobtrusive measures and grounded theory construction.625. Seminar in Comparative and Historical Methods. (3-0). Credit 3. Familiarization with methodologicaldebates and strategies of analysis pertinent to the examination of social structures and eventsacross societies and historical time. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.627. Seminar in Law, Deviance and Social Control. (3-0). Credit 3. Relevant literature and research inselected aspects of law, deviance and social control. May be taken up to three times for credit as contentvaries. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.