This course is designed to give students an understanding of the world system as a social system. Emphasis is on the social processes resulting from interaction over time in the world system. 101 tSO 254 Society and Economic Change 3 CR Emphasis on the impact of the capitalist system and economic organizations on consumerism and globalism. 101 tSO 258 Society and the Environment 3 CR Studies the impact of society on the environment, including the impact of ecological damage, pollution, deforestation, erosion, depletion of nonrenewable resources on society and the environmental movement. SO 101 SO 319 Special Topics in Microsociology 3 CR Detailed and comprehensive analysis of a microsociological issue or problem of current interest.
Specific topic is announced in the course schedule of any given semester.
SO 101 SO 332 Statistics for the Social Sciences 3 CR Focus on interpretation more than calculation. Meaning, purposes and limits of statistics. Distributions, central tendency, dispersion, estimates, inference, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, chi-square, correlation and regression. CR Explores principles and methods of public opinion research. Conducting an opinion poll while studying the theory, advantages and limitations of this type of research is part of this course.