Consequences of decentralization and privatization on social provision, and emerging models and possibilities for future welfare states are explored. The impact of biology, psychology, and society on gender differentiation and the consequences of gender-typing for the individual and interdisciplinary research. Structure Examines issues in the socioeconomic attainment process, which draw upon the notion of labor market structure with respect to differential achievements according to ethnic, racial, and gender lines. Sociology G4165 Contemporary Sociological Theory Survey through analysis and critical evaluation of some of the classical sociological theories and analyses of several contemporary social theories. The organization and development of social movements.
Special attention is paid to historical and contemporary American social movements.
Sociology G4260 Race and Ethnic Relations in the U.S. Review of major theories of race and ethnic relations, drawing primarily from sociology but also from anthropology, social psychology, and economics. Specific topics will be covered such as identity, ethnic enclaves and immigrant enterprise, race and class formation, the nature of prejudice, and ethnic political mobilization. Sociology G4335 Law and Inequality Uses and limitations of the law in combating social, political, and economic inequality. Traditions and Concepts Examines basic traditions and problems in the sociological study of politics. Includes intensive discussion of classical writers such as Tocqueville, Marx, Weber, Michels, among others, and recent interpretive theory.