Utilizing a cross-cultural approach, occupation, income, education, ethnicity, age, mobility, and other variables are treated. This course replaces Sociology 209 and is not open to students who have completed that course. An examination of the conditions under which deviance as social reality is created and maintained by social systems. The course places particular emphasis on the labeling process and its implications for particular forms of deviance. Society An examination of the relationship between occupational flux and society.
Emphasis is placed on the changing nature of occupations in post-industrial societies.
Students are required to bring their own career expectations under sociological study. A systematic utilization of learning resources that exist in the community. Each student completes a social analysis project. The projects are designed to provide a learning experience for the student through practical research. The projects utilizes community resources.