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Introductory Courses
100. Principles of Sociology. Open
to first- and second-year students. Juniors are strongly encouraged to enroll
in Soc. 400. Seniors must elect Soc. 400. No credit granted to those who
have completed or are enrolled in 195 or 400. No credit for seniors. (4).
(SS).
Section 020. How do class, race, age, gender, and sexual preference
shape our and other peoples' lives? Why do people who make $30,000 and people
who make $140,000 all feel middle class? Why do women in dual career couples
do a month of 24 hour days more housework per year than men? Why do we need
affirmative action? Why do women Marines have to wear makeup and take etiquette
classes? Why do we spend almost five times as much of the federal budget
on the elderly than on children? In this course we will use sociological
imagination, theory, analysis, and empirical research to answer these questions.
We will examine various theoretical explanations for social inequality in
the United States as well as empirical research about inequality. Students
will learn to think and write critically about the basic concepts of the
discipline and to use research and theory when engaging in a discussion
of these issues. (Martin)
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101. Person and Society: An Introduction
to Sociology Through Social Psychology. Open to first- and
second-year students. Juniors are strongly encouraged and seniors must take
Soc. 400 or 401. No credit for seniors. (4). (SS).
This course introduces students to the topics in Sociology that lie
at the interface with Psychology. Four major themes within social psychology
will be examined: (1) the impact that one individual has on another individual;
(2) the impact that a group has on its individual members; (3) the impact
that individuals have on the group; (4) the impact that one group has on
another group. The themes, concepts, theoretical approaches, and research
methods within social psychology will be presented. Topics to be covered
include socialization, the self, perception, cognition, attitudes, interpersonal
relationships, group behavior, altruism, aggression, and deviance. (Carr)
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102. Contemporary Social Issues: An Introduction to Sociology. Open to first- and second-year students. Juniors are strongly encouraged and seniors must take Soc. 400 or 401. No credit for seniors. (4). (SS). Credit is granted for a combined total of eight credits elected through Soc. 102, 202, 203, and 401, provided that the course topics are different.
Section 001. Social inequalities - that is, inequalities in economic resources and opportunities, prestige or status, cultural capital, civil rights and political power - have been a central concern of sociology from its inception. This course introduces students to sociology as a mode of inquiry by examining the most important questions that sociologists have asked about social inequalities, their answers to these questions, and the ways in which they have tried to assess the merits of competing answers. We begin with the classics - Marx, Weber, and Durkheim - in order to identify the fundamental issues and key concepts. We also examine the way in which theories of social inequality fit into larger conceptions of social order, conflict, and change. We then turn to studies that explore the causes and consequences of growing economic inequality, as experienced by different groups in the United States over the last 20 years. (Robinson)
Section 009. (Harris-Reid)
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195. Principles in Sociology (Honors).
Open to first- and second-year students admitted to the Honors Program,
or other first- and second-year students with a grade point average of at
least 3.2. Juniors are strongly encouraged and seniors must take Soc. 400.
Credit is not granted for both Sociology 195 and Sociology 100 or 400. No
credit for seniors. (4). (SS).
Introduction to sociology through the study of class, race and gender. Basic
principles of sociology as developed by Marx and Weber through their analyses
of capitalism as a social system applied to the fundamental forms of inequality
in modern society. Although basic concepts will be stressed recent controversies
in class analysis, critical approaches to race and feminist theory will
be introduced. Readings inclde Wright, Class Counts; Luker, Politics of
Motherhood; Roediger, Wages of Whiteness; Sayer, Capitalism and Modernity,
and basic texts by Marx and Weber. Brief essay assignments, final paper.
Seminar (Paige)
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Primarily for First- and Second-year Students
105. First Year Seminar in Sociology.
Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing,
may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of
instructor. (3). (SS).
Section 001 - Transforming America:
Immigrants Then and Now. That America is a nation of immigrants is
one of the most common yet truest statements. In this course we will survey
a vast range of the American Immigrant experience, that of the Irish, Germans,
Jews, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Mexicans.
Immigration to America can be broadly understood as consisting of four major
waves: the first one, that which consisted of Northwest Europeans who immigrated
up to the mid-19th century; the second one, that which consisted of Southern
and East Europeans at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the
20th; the third one, the movement from the South to the North of Black Americans
and Mexicans precipitated by two World Wars; and the fourth one, from 1965
on, is still ongoing in the present, of immigrants mostly from Latin America
and Asia. At all times, our effort will be to understand the immigrant past
of these ethnic groups, both for what it tells us about the past as well
as their present and possible future. This course is a First-Year Seminar,
limited to 25 entering students at the University. As such, it will be run
as a seminar, involving a fair amount of discussion and writing. (Pedraza)
Section 003 - Life Stories and the
Sociological Imagination. This course begins with sociologist C. Wright
Mills' definition of sociology as the study of the intersection of biography
and history. Course readings, in addition to Mills' classic work, The
Sociological Imagination, will focus on autobiographies and memoirs.
Together we will analyze these "life stories" to ascertain how
"biography and history" intersect - how personal lives are changed
and shaped by social circumstance. Mills also argued that a significant
feature of sociological analysis is that it distinguishes "personal
troubles" from "public issues". In addition to examining
the intersection of biography and history, we will discuss how to tell the
difference between private concerns and public issues in the lives of the
people that we read about - how to know whether we are reading about a shared
social condition that has impact on individuals, or about a problem that
is truly an individual one. Readings for the course will be selected to
represent important social differences in American society such as race
and ethnicity, gender, class, and age. (Rose)
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205. Poverty, Race, and Health.
(3). (Excl).
This course critically examines the health status of the poor and of major
racial/ethnic minority groups in the United States. Attention will be focused
on the patterned ways in which the health of these groups is embedded in
the social, cultural, and political, and economic contexts and arrangements
of U.S. society. Topics covered include racism and its effects on health;
the effect of social inequality on health; health problems among the poor;
the impact of social factors on medical care use; trends in population health
over time; and the impact of poverty and race on health in other countries.
(Musick)
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389. Practicum in Sociology. Permission
of instructor. (2-4). (Excl). Offered mandatory credit/no credit. Up to
four credits of 389 may be included in a concentration plan in sociology.
A combined total of eight credits of Sociology 321, 389, and 395 may be
counted toward a concentration in sociology. Laboratory fee ($22) required.
(EXPERIENTIAL). May be repeated for a total of eight credits.
Sociology 389 is know as "Project Community" and "Trained
Volunteer Corps." Students combine four to six hours of weekly service
in community settings, with weekly student-led seminars. Seminars are interactive,
focus on related sociological issues, and provide a time for mutual support,
planning and problem-solving. Over 40 sections offer settings that include
working in school classrooms with "at-risk" children and youth
in a variety of tutoring, chemical dependency, mentoring situations; in
the adult and juvenile criminal justice system; with adult literacy; with
the homeless; and with elderly, the mentally ill, the disabled, and in hospitals.
For more information, contact Project Community, 1024 Hill Street, 763-3548.
Enrollment is by override only. (Chesler)
See http://www.umich.edu/~ocsl/Proj_Community/index.html
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