Recent data on income and wealth distribution, are reviewed along with the impact of the changing work environment. Students find this topic interesting because of its relevance to their lives in their coming to terms with future career options. Course Objectives acquaint students with the sociologic perspective based on systematic study rather than on common sense to explore our own attitudes about other groups in society, and develop a sense of cultural relativism and an appreciation of other cultures to develop a sense of global awareness to make students aware of the crucial importance of the social structure of society in terms of social class, gender, age, education, income, race and ethnicity to identify the persistent sources of strain and conflict among groups to reveal how self image and social identity emerge to trace the ways in which social problems are identified, perceived, and resolved to demonstrate the differences between social problems and personal dilemmas to show the student how to interpret and use social scientific data and methods to teach students not to over generalize from personal experiences to learn how to apply the sociological perspective to understanding everyday life Required Readings Sociology, Fourth Edition by John E. Farley. Prentice Hall, 1998. Assigned articles and lecture notes distributed in the Package.
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