Students meet in a weekly seminar with coordinator. Data Analysis 3 Methods of analyzing data in sociological research focusing on multivariate approaches. Requires permission of instructor. Analysis of current American social issues that show interrelationship of race, class and gender. Readings from sociology, Afro-American studies, feminist studies, history and literature.
Seminar focuses on ways in which social thought defines and analyzes contemporary society.
Explores how alternative theories and methods serve to create knowledge about contemporary concerns with everyday life, democracy, equality, social structure and power. Corporate Crime 3 Nature and causes of the deviant behaviors and crimes of large organizations. How organizations act, are accused of deviance and defend themselves in cases such as price-fixing, sale of unsafe drugs and illegal spying. May be cross-listed with CRJU428. SOCI 430 Comparative Sociology 3 Exposes sociological similarities and differences between the United States and a selected country on a number of critical sociological topics.