The analysis of social institutions, social ecology, the industrial state, minority group relationships, and social disorganization serve as focal points of the course. Variable A survey of British culture and civilization. Not open to students who have received credit for History 25. Marriage and Family Rel. Variable A survey of marriage and the family from a historical and theoretical perspective.
Emphasis is placed on sociological theory and the methodology of sociological inquiry.
Variable A survey of various dominant-minority group situations within American society with special emphasis on the origins and consequences of prejudice. Variable A comparative sociological analysis of communes and utopian societies. The course will include an examination of past and present utopian societies in the United States as well as in other nations and cultures with the intent of analyzing their differences and similarities as social systems and social movements. Completion of Sociology 1 recommended.