Focuses on theoretical perspectives concerned with social development, social conflict, solidarity, social class and gender. Sociology Of Law. Analysis of law as a social process in both historical and comparative perspective. Focuses on various theories of law and society and relevant empirical research. Social Thought And Contemporary Society.
Seminar focuses on ways in which social thought defines and analyzes contemporary society.
Explores how alternative theories and methods serve to create knowledge about contemporary concerns with everyday life, democracy, equality, social structure and power. Field experience and related seminar. Culminates the legal studies minor by requiring an independent research project resulting in a term paper. Seminar provides guidance from professor and chance to share ideas and problems with fellow students. Historical survey of the development of sociology and sociological theory beginning with contract theorists through the classic European theorists of the nineteenth century.