This course will examine a range of responses to these questions that are influential in the social sciences today, setting them in historical context and illustrating them with concrete examples of social scientific practice. We will also consider some of the ethical and political issues to do with researchers' responsibilities to human subjects and to the larger society that are a matter of active concern for contemporary social scientists. Credit 3 units. Sci 333B. A course on the relationships between the individual and various forms of community, in the U.S. and in other societies. We examine interactions in family, school, and neighborhood, and the social bonds or divisions created therein.
Materials come from political theory, law, and the social sciences.
Credit 3 units. Discussions will be drawn from contemporary material and authors. Credit 3 units. Introduction to family dynamics from a systems perspective. Credit 3 units.