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SOCY Sociology( Behavioral and Social Sciences) SOCY100 Introduction to Sociology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Behavioral and Social Science (SB) Course.The fundamental concepts and principles of sociology. Includes consideration of culture, patterns of social interaction, norms, values, social institutions, stratification, and social change. Prerequisite for other sociology courses. SOCY100H Introduction to Sociology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Behavioral and Social Science (SB) Course. Open to Honor students only. SOCY100S Introduction to Sociology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Behavioral and Social Science (SB) Course. SOCY105 Introduction to Contemporary Social Problems; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Behavioral and Social Science (SB) Course. An examination of contemporary social problems through sociological perspectives; ways in which social problems are part of the organization of society; a detailed study of selected social problems including social conflict and social inequality. SOCY105U Introduction to Contemporary Social Problems; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Behavioral and Social Science (SB) Course. SOCY201 (PermReq) Introductory Statistics for Sociology; (4 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: SOCY100 and MATH111 or equivalent. Not open to students who have completed BMGT231, ENEE324, or STAT400. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BIOM301, BMGT230, ECON321, EDMS451, GEOG305, GVPT422, PSYC200, or SOCY201. Elementary descriptive and inferential statistics. Construction and percentaging of bivariate contingency tables; frequency distributions and graphic presentations; measures of central tendency and dispersion; parametric and nonparametric measures of association and correlation; regression; probability; hypothesis testing; the normal, binomial and chi-square distributions; point and interval estimates. Required for majors. SOCY202 Introduction to Research Methods in Sociology; (4 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: SOCY201. The underlying logic, major strategies, specific techniques and skills of sociological research. Research design, measurement, data collection, sampling, field research experiments, surveys, index and scale construction, data analysis, interpretation and report writing. To be taken immediately after SOCY 201. Required for majors. SOCY203 Sociological Theory; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: SOCY100. Development of the science of sociology; historical backgrounds; recent theories of society. Required of all sociology majors. Required for sociology majors. SOCY227 Introduction to the Study of Deviance; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Behavioral and Social Science (SB) Course. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: SOCY227 or SOCY327. Formerly SOCY327. An introduction to the sociological study of deviant behavior, covering such topics as mental illness, sexual deviance, and the use of drugs. SOCY230 Sociological Social Psychology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Theoretical perspectives and their applications. Socialization through the life course, the self-concept, attitudes, emotion, attribution, interpersonal relations, group processes, deviance, and social change. SOCY241 Inequality in American Society; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Behavioral and Social Science (SB) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course. The dynamics of inequality: its social production, politics, future, and ideological bases. Utopian communities, efforts to eliminate inequality. SOCY305 Scarcity and Modern Society; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: three credits of sociology. Resource depletion and the deterioration of the environment. Relationship to lifestyles, individual consumer choices, cultural values, and institutional failures. Projection of the future course of American society on the basis of the analysis of scarcity, theories of social change, current trends, social movements, government actions, and the futurist literature. SOCY325 The Sociology of Gender; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Diversity (D) Course. Prerequisite: three credits of sociology. Also offered as WMST325. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: SOCY325 or WMST325. Institutional bases of gender roles and gender inequality, cultural perspectives on gender, gender socialization, feminism, and gender-role change. Emphasis on contemporary American society. SOCY380 (PermReq) Honors Independent Reading in Sociology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: permission of department. Formerly SOCY378. This course permits sociology honor students to undertake a program or reading on a particular problem in sociology or a subfield therein. The reading will be done under the supervision of a member of the sociology faculty. Required of sociology honor students. SOCY381 (PermReq) Honors Independent Research in Sociology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. Prerequisite: SOCY380. Formerly SOCY388. This course permits sociology students to define a particular problem in sociology or a subfield therein and to develop a research plan for use as a thesis topic. The work will be done under the supervision of a member of the sociology faculty. SOCY383 (PermReq) Honors Thesis Research; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. Prerequisite: SOCY381. Formerly SOCY389. Student research under the direction of a member of the sociology faculty, culminating in the presentation and defense of a thesis reporting the research. SOCY386 (PermReq) Experiential Learning; (3-6 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. Prerequisite: permission of department. Junior standing. To register, students must have departmental permission form signed by instructor and by Coordinator of Sociology Undergraduate Program. SOCY398L (PermReq) Special Topics in Sociology: Service Learning; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Formerly: SOCY398S. SOCY398M Special Topics in Sociology: Microbrewing and Society; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. SOCY398R Special Topics in Sociology: Morris Rosenburg Lecture and Reading; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. SOCY399 (PermReq) Independent Study in Sociology; (1-6 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. No more than 6 hours of 399 is allowed for credit. SOCY402 Intermediate Procedures For Data Collection; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: SOCY202 or equivalent; or permission of department. An intermediate survey of the major research methods used by sociologists, including survey research, experimentation, observation, archival research, and in-depth interviewing. The selection of an appropriate research method, with analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of various methods, practical issues, data collection and preparation, and analytical techniques. SOCY410 Social Demography; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: six credits of sociology or permission of department. Types of demographic analysis; demographic data; population characteristics; migration; mortality; fertility; population theories; world population growth; population policy. SOCY412 Family Demography; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: six credits of sociology course work. Formerly SOCY312. Family and population dynamics. Fertility issues, such as teenage pregnancy, the timing of parenthood, and family size; as they relate to family behavior, such as marital patterns, child care use, and work and the family. Policy issues that relate to demographic changes in the family. SOCY424 Sociology of Race Relations; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: six credits in sociology or permission of department. Also offered as AAST424. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: AAST424 or SOCY424. Analysis of race-related issues, with a primary focus on American society. The historical emergence, development, and institutionalization of racism; the impact of racism on its victims; and racially based conflict. SOCY430 Social Structure and Identity; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: six credits of sociology or permission of department. Theoretical issues in social psychology, focusing on social construction of identity. Identity formation and transformation in social process. Structural and cultural dimensions of social identity. SOCY431 Principles of Organizations; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: six credits of sociology or permission of department. Structural and processual characteristics of organizations that make them effective for different purposes and in different environments. Effects of different institutional environments, small group processes, organizational networks, and leadership. Types of organizations studied include formal bureaucracies, professional organizations, and voluntary associations. SOCY440 Sociology of the Self-Concept; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: six credits of sociology or permission of department. The nature of the self-concept and the social forces that mold it. Major sociological, psychological, and psycho-analytic theories of the self-concept. Self-concept motives, mechanisms of self-defense, and the nature of a healthy self-concept. Empirical research dealing with the bearing of social interaction, social structure, social context and social institutions on the self-concept. SOCY441 Social Stratification and Inequality; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: six credits of sociology or permission of department. Junior standing. The sociological study of social class, status, and power. Topics include theories of stratification, correlates of social position, functions and dysfunctions of social inequality, status inconsistency, and social mobility. SOCY443 The Family and Society; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: six credits of sociology or permission of department. Study of the family as a social institution; its biological and cultural foundations, historical development, changing structures and functions, the interaction of marriage and parenthood, disorganizing and reorganizing factors in present-day trends. SOCY450 Measurement of Time, Work, and Leisure; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: six credits of sociology or permission of department. How Americans use time, with specific reference to work, housework, personal and free time activities. Time-use differences across methods, social groups and cultures. Subjective time. Implications for time management, societal quality of life, social policy, and theory. SOCY465 The Sociology of War; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: six credits of sociology or permission of department. The origin and development of armed forces as institutions, the social causes, operations and results of war as social conflict; the relations of peace and war and revolution in contemporary civilizations. SOCY498J Selected Topics in Sociology: Sociology of the South; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: six credits of sociology or permission of department. SOCY601 Statistics For Sociological Research I; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: SOCY 201 or equivalent, and permission of instructor or graduate director. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: SOCY 601 and SURV 601. Introductory statistical concepts are covered including descriptive statistics, probability, sampling distributions, expected values, hypothesis testing, tests of significance, measures of association, and if time permits, introduction to regression analysis. Statistical programming software may be used. Also offered as SURV 601. SOCY620 Development of European and American Sociological Theory; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: SOCY 203 or SOCY 403 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Review of the history of sociological thought with major attention to the key figures (from Marx to C. Wright Mills). Restricted to SOCY majors only. SOCY635 Social Aspects of Fertility; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Demographic and socioeconomic aspects of fertility behavior; causes and consequences of fertilty decline; relationship between women's status and fertility; determinants of adolescent and nonmarital fertility; differential fertility by race/ethnicity and migration status. SOCY645 Sociology of the Self Concept; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Theory and empirical research dealing with the social determination and social consequences of the self-concept. Sociological, psychological, and psychoanalytic approaches to the self. SOCY654 Military Families; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Relationship between work organization and the family in the armed forces; theoretical approaches to the study of work and family; research on military family life style; demographic profiles of military families; organizational demands and their effects on service members and families; family policy in the military. SOCY664 Armed Forces and Society; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Analysis of the relationship between military organization and modern industrial society. Growth and decline of the mass army, the transition from conscription to all-volunteer forces, the social legitimacy of military organization, the military as a form of industrial organization, and problems of civil-military relations in the modern world. SOCY699 Special Social Problems; (1-6 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. SOCY699A Special Social Problems: Sociology Teaching Assistants Seminar; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY699D Special Social Problems: Science/Medicine Studies; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY699E Special Social Problems: Migration, Immigration, and Ethnicity; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY699F Special Social Problems: Apprenticeship in Social Research; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY699K Special Social Problems: War, State and Society; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY699L Special Social Problems: Diversity in the Military; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY699M Special Social Problems: Dissertation Writing Workshop; (2 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY699N Special Social Problems: Power, Status, and Leadership in Groups; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY699P Special Social Problems: Pro-Seminar in Sociology; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY699Q Special Social Problems: Apprenticeship in Teaching Sociology; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY699R Special Social Problems: Workshop in Current Sociological Issues; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY699V Special Social Problems: Writing Workshop for Second Year Paper; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY699W Special Social Problems: Work in Progress; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY699Z Special Social Problems: Workshop in PhD Specialty Exam Preparation; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY709B Advanced Special Topics in Data Analysis: Network Analysis; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY729C Advanced Special Topics in Substantive Theory: Intersectionality; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY729D Advanced Special Topics in Substantive Theory: Spaces and Places; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY799 (PermReq) Master's Thesis Research; (1-6 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. SOCY819 Research Seminar in Social Psychology; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY829 Research Seminar in Sociological Theory; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY849 Research Seminar in Demography; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY858 Research Seminar in Gender, Work and Family; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY869 Research Seminar in Military Sociology; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY889 Research Seminar in Social Stratification; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/AUD. SOCY898 (PermReq) Pre-Candidacy Research; (1-8 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. SOCY899 (PermReq) Doctoral Dissertation Research; (6 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
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