Course examines how inequalities of wealth and power, combined with such factors as work, education, race, gender, and age, create a highly stratified social class system. Concentrates on the special types of groups appropriate for work with older people. Includes simulation-style training situations that workers in the field have reported as difficult to handle. The training is practical and oriented toward problem solving. Examines the development of sociology from its historical beginnings to sociology in the 20th century.
Special attention is given to the development of different perspectives, theories, and concepts.
An examination of the profession of social work and the field of social welfare, including a comprehensive overview of the way social workers respond to a wide variety of societal problems. A cross-cultural examination of the roles of women in society including theories of gender and the comparative position of women in the family and in larger kin groups, economics systems, politics, and religion. Integrates basic sociological concepts and theories in a gerontological context and focuses on social factors affecting the American older population. Course uses the sociological perspective to explore the ways American popular culture has portrayed women and men over the past century. It explores women and men as objects, sweethearts, victims, husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, and workers.