Selected and comparative emphasis on bureaucratic organization in both government and private sectors. Special emphasis on development and maintenance of interpersonal relations. Emphasis on social, economic, and political processes related to health care, medical occupations, professionals, medical organizations, and delivery of health care services. An examination of the variety of family patterns that have existed or presently exist around the world. The course examines how and why family patterns vary and how economic development, revolutions, and other change forces affect family life.
Special emphasis is placed on study of the sources of and challenges to the legitimacy of law.
Historical and comparative analyses informed by the literature of sociology and other social sciences. Critical review of economic policy in developing, post-communist and advanced market societies. The roles of women and men from social structural and social psychological perspectives. Analysis of gender inequality in such areas as the family, the workforce, the media, politics, law, religion, and education. Development of a perspective on processes of becoming deviant.