Lectures and an on-line course web page are used to present the concepts used for analysis. Some class time is devoted to video on various groups. Weekly reading summaries and quizzes will often be required. There will be one mid-term and a final exam. Students also are required to participate through the use of an on-line forum.
Some use is made of e-mail.
The classical theorists were concerned with pressing social issues war and peace, exploitation and resistance, authoritarianism and democracy, suicide and mental health. It was the moral seriousness of their effort to understand these issues that led them to develop explanations which we can justly describe as sociological theory. The abiding interest of this theory flows from its continuing relevance to the problems it addresses. We will read primary texts and focus mainly on the principal theories to which the classical theorists devoted themselves. Sociology 522 American Racial and Ethnic Relations, Norm Yetman Race is one of the most critical, divisive, and defining issues in modern American life.