Courses

• CAS SO 333: The Workplace
  Investigates the social organization of work. Topics include the history of industrial work, the presence of inequality at work, the impact of the work experience for individuals, and the effects of globalization and the "new economy" on work both here and abroad.
• CAS SO 334: Sociology of Mental Illness
  An evaluation of current theories and research on the social sources and consequences of mental illness. Featured topics for discussion include social-psychological perspectives on the definition, diagnosis, etiology, and treatment of mental disorders.
• CAS SO 340: Soc Hist Migrtn
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CAS SO 345: Film and Society
  An overview of the historical, social-cultural, and aesthethic factors that contribute to cinematic representations of social life, including portrayals of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Examines movie- going and spectatorship as it has changed over time.
• CAS SO 355: Science, Race, and Society
  Explores social, cultural, and political debates surrounding scientific authority. Focuses on how racial differences come to be understood as "natural" and how scientific practice and social orders impact one another. Also considers how gender, class, and nationality have shaped scientific understandings of racialized bodies and populations. Also offered as CAS AA 355.
• CAS SO 400: Advanced Research Practicum
  Prepares students planning to conduct honors research project in their senior year. Students interested in developing a research project for alternate purposes will be admitted with permission of the instructor.
• CAS SO 401: Senior Independent Work
  
• CAS SO 402: Senior Independent Work
  
• CAS SO 403: Seminar: Gender Stratification
  Inequality between women and men in employment, occupational position, and income. Examines the nature and causes of gender stratification in industrial societies.
• CAS SO 404: Seminar: The Family
  Implications for contemporary family life of global economic and cultural processes. Topics include pre-industrial polygyny in China; working-class family and kinship in industrializing U.K.; African American slave families in the antebellum South; the rise of the "modern" family system; and contemporary family forms and processes including gay and lesbian families, the effects of reproductive technologies on family life, and the intergenerational complexities of racial-ethnic families enmeshed in poverty, drugs, and the criminal justice system.
• CAS SO 408: Seminar: Ethnic, Race, and Minority Relations
  Formation and position of ethnic minorities in the United States, including cross-group comparisons from England, Africa, and other parts of the world. Readings and field experience.
• CAS SO 411: Seminar: Sociology of the Nonprofit Sector
  Introduction to sociological research on that part of society known as the nonprofit sector, including nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, voluntary associations, and social movements. Focus on some of the literature’s major themes: civil society, social capital, and nongovernmental organizations.
• CAS SO 415: Seminar: Sociology of Law
  Classical and contemporary perspectives on law's development in society. Selected applications of law are then examined with attention to constraints on law's ability to achieve such societal goals as justice and equality and to alter social relations fundamentally.
• CAS SO 417: Seminar: Community Sociology
  The study of communities in different settings; their organization and contribution to building a social and moral order in urban areas. The historical development of communities and the way persons adapt to urban life through communities are also considered.
• CAS SO 418: Seminar: Sociology of Medicine
  Focuses on the medical profession, sources of its power and authority, the effects of recent changes in financing and delivery of healthcare. Medical training and decision-making analyzed. Doctor-patient interaction and the use of alternative treatments.
• CAS SO 420: Seminar: Women and Social Change in the Developing World
  Studies women in nonindustrial countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, stressing empirical research, theory, and methodology. Comparisons between regions and with industrial countries. Focus on sex segregation, female labor force participation, migration, fertility, family roles, and women and political power. Also offered as CAS IR 425.
• CAS SO 434: Seminar: Sociology of Mental Illness
  An evaluation of current theories and research on the social sources and consequences of mental illness. Featured topics for discussion include social-psychological perspectives on the definition, diagnosis, etiology, and treatment of mental disorders.
• CAS SO 437: Seminar: Sociology of Culture
  Examines the mutual interdependence between social structure and culture, focusing on the ways in which belief, faith, knowledge, symbol, ritual, and the like both produce and are products of social organization.
• CAS SO 438: Seminar on International Migration
  Explores the social dynamics of contemporary international migration, ranging from the development of transnational migrant communities to the impact of state policies that strive to regulate migrant labor flows.
• CAS SO 439: Seminar: State Building and Failure in the Developing World
  Considers the political significance of failed and fragile states in the developing world in the post-9/11 era. Students analyze historical patterns of state formation and its relevance in contemporary society. Also offered as CAS PO 425.

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