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  • SOC 3140: Social Theory

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course provides students with a specific background to a wide variety of perspectives and theories inherent to sociology as a discipline, and identifies different points of view that provides multiple interpretations of major global and national social changes and their impact on social structure, cultures, and social institutions. Prerequisite: SOC 1010.
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  • SOC 3310: Special Topics-Diverse

    1.00 - 3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    No course description available.
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  • SOC 3334: Class Race & Amer Dream

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course explores some of the mechanisms by which economic and racial inequality is produced and reproduced in the United States - mechanisms that inhibit access to the American Dream. We will examine the institutional patterns, structural arrangements, and cultural ideologies that generate and legitimate disparities in the distribution of income, wealth, social status, and economic opportunities across racial and class lines. We'll investigate the complex ways that class and race intersect to produce a system of social stratification, focusing especially on transformations in the nature and pattern of stratification over time.
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  • SOC 3337: Gender & Sexuality

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Through readings, lectures, discussions, and film, students explore theories and research on sex and gender differences, gender inequality, and sexuality across societies. Using a sociological lens, students examine how gender and gender inequality shape, and are shaped by, a variety of institutions, such as families, schools, and the workplace. The course also addresses how gender is implicated in cultural definitions of work, violence, intimacy, sexuality, physical attractiveness, and other social phenomena.
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  • SOC 3339: Soc of Women at Work

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course explores gender, work and who gets what. We will explore definitions of what counts as work and review the concept of gender. We explore inequality from different perspectives and will assess how different theoretical approaches to inequality can give us different ideas of the extent of gender inequality at work.
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  • SOC 3380: Social Inequality

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course examines the degree of inequality along characteristics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, age, physical ability, and sexual orientation. By describing trends over time within the United States, this class uses a comparative approach to emphasize the societal factors that explain why some groups suffer economic, political, and social (dis)advantage relative to other groups. Students will be encourages to think critically about the ways that these advantages and disadvantages are reproduced both intentionally and inadvertently through actions and interactions at the individual, organizational, and institutional levels.
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  • SOC 3381: Inequal thru Music&Film

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    During the election campaign for President Barack Obama, our forty fourth President and our first African American President, one of candidate Obama's famous campaign mantras were the words "Yes We Can!" Soon the catch-phrase, reminiscent of other calls to action such as "we shall overcome" and "si se puede" for underserved populations and populations of color in U.S. history facing issues of social inequality, became a popular music video released by hip-hop musician and rapper Will.i.am. This wedding of issues of social inequality in U.S. politics and society with popular culture media such as music and film is the central focus of this course. Fundamentally, this course is a historical, theoretical, and ultimately, sociological exploration of race, ethnicity, class, and gender as axes of inequality in the United States, through the lens of music and film media. Materials examine the interaction between personal experiences and social structures as students explore how individuals carry varying degrees of penalty and privilege depending on their position within a complex matrix along axes of race, ethnicity, class, and gender that affects everyone in society. Students will be invited to explore the ways that people experience and respond to the matrix, that is, structures of racial/ethnic, class, and gender inequality, and the ways that people help to reinforce and reshape those structures.
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  • SOC 3383: Latina&Latino Sociology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Latinos are currently the largest minority group in the United States. What challenges have they faced in the past? What obstacles do they face today? How do they express cultural connections and mobilize in the struggle for equality? Moving between different historical periods and geographic locations, this class explores the debates, methodologies, and research that shape the field of Latino Sociology. using a sociological approach to the study of Caribbean, Central American, Mexican, and South American communities living in the United States we will examine not only the connections between Latino groups but also the differences that sometimes divide them. Throughout the semester, lectures and assignments will focus on themes including: immigration, social movements, figures of resistance, education, language, popular culture, and globalization.
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  • SOC 3410: Special Topics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

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  • SOC 3422: Social Movements

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Social movements are an organized effort by a significant number of people to change some major aspect of society. Movements can mobilize around any number of issues, and they employ a large range of tactics that range from lobbying and picketing to armed insurrection and revolution. Under what conditions do social movements emerge and decline? What makes some movements more successful than others? We will address these questions through the application of various theoretical perspectives to several prominent social movements in American history, focusing on the domestic and international conditions that gave rise to these movements and shaped their relative success or failure. The goal of the course is to explain the structural conditions and tactical strategies that render collective action more or less effective in achieving their stated goals.
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