The role of social control and social control agencies in the deviance process. Discussion of the variety of nonconventional lifestyles. Deviance will be examined in terms of culturally patterned responses to economic, political institutions, and cultural expectations. The course stresses the effects of social change upon this group through the succeeding generations, from a socio-historical perspective. Offered as needed.
Race is and has been a fundamental issue and dilemma within the United States.
Early social thinkers questioned as to whether it was a situation that would ever be resolved. This course will explore the experience of race within this culture, through history and through social practice, as it had defined a life for those of color and as it has affected all members of this society. Offered as needed. This seminar aims at interesting students, from all academic disciplines, in special topics that are analyzed from theoretical and analytical sociological frameworks. Offered as needed.