In-depth analysis of social nature of crime. Particular emphasis on cultural origins of deviance. Topics include penology, social control and administration of justice. 3 cr. hrs. Some areas of concern are theories of bereavement and grieving, attitudes toward death, social processes such as wakes and funerals, religious orientations, and forms of sudden death.
Content varies from year to year.
Considers implications of changing gender roles for personal relationships among women, between women and men, and among men. Students learn about feminist movements, their impact on men's movements, and their implications for social change. Explores cultural consequences of gender inequality in various institutions, and also examines intricate web of interrelationships between gender, race, class and age. Social and economic forces that tend to make elderly people increasingly dependent with age are considered. Life for the aged is very much subject to the culture of which one is a part.