The course introduces concepts for understanding social life, and theories about how life is patterned, how life is shaped by social conditions, and how social life affects beliefs. Topics are divorce, abortion, crime, inequality, prejudice, and television violence. We will address questions such as the following. The course utilizes lectures by the professor, readings from textbook, quizzes, recitations, and homework assignments that employs user-friendly software, SPSS, for analyzing data on social life. The analyses provide experience in formulating questions, testing hypotheses and interpreting evidence about social life.
Sociology is introduced by doing.
Philosophy of teaching . Veritas et Virtus Truth and Virtue - is the foundation of learning by its inscription in the university seal that is similar to a coat of arms symbolizing the sacred. Truth is presumed to exist, to have an existence of its own. Truth is appreciated, it has social value, it is upheld as a virtue, and it is better than error, falsity, and ignorance that are considered vices. The university is devoted to the cultivation of truth, its foundation is that truth exists and may be attained, that truthfulness is independent of its discoverer, and that truth can be communicated.