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  • SOC 3436: Globalization

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course explores the processes, causes, and consequences of globalization in its varied forms: economic, political, cultural, and social. Topics to be considered include the expansion and intensification of a capitalist world economy; the rise and diffusion of national states, together with the creation of an interstate system; the emergence, content, and impact of a common 'world culture'; and the dynamic relationship between globalization and social movements. The course will encourage students to think critically about globalization: to assess its potential benefits for societies as well as the social problems it generates. The course is organized into four modules aligning well with the varied forms of globalization identified above. The Modules are economic globalization; political globalization; cultural globalization; and social globalization.
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  • SOC 3440: Sociology of Religion

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Presents comparative and critical approaches to the understanding of religious institutions and practices. Analyzes religion and its impact upon societies, global-international events, and personal well-being. It emphasizes the diversity and nature of "religious experience" in terms of different groups, classes and individuals. Surveys Western, Eastern, New Age, and Native American religions, as well as unaffiliated groups in terms of their defining beliefs and practices. Explores religion in terms of social processes and phenomena that include, socialization, social control, social identity, authority, power, law, political behavior, stratification, culture, social change, deviance, and gender. The course contributes to an understanding of the functioning, and diversity or religion important to making more discerning decisions regarding cultural, political, and moral issues that are often influenced by religion.
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  • SOC 3446: Political Sociology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    The modern state touches nearly every aspect of our lives, but we usually spend little time thinking about it. The existence of states seems natural, as does their authority to collect taxes, raise armies, wage wars, regulate economies, build infrastructures, and provide services. This course analyzes how states acquired these powers over time. Topics include the emergence, development, and possible decline of modern states; war; democracy and its spread around the world; nationalism; globalization; citizenship; and human rights. The overarching goal of this course is for students to develop a better understanding of the state, society, and power in the modern world, with a focus on how history shapes current events.
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  • SOC 3448: Cities and Communities

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Examines how cities and city life are shaped by social, cultural, political, and economic forces operating at many different levels. It also deals with how diverse groups of citizens in particular urban places relate to changes in their cities. The course also explores how different urban environments, such as different neighborhoods, influence the lives of city residents. Topics covered include the emergence of cities in different historical periods, spatial aspects of urban growth, urban power and politics, social diversity and inequality, and various issues currently confronting cities, such as residential segregation by race and class, deindustrialization, concentrated poverty, affordable housing, homelessness, sprawl, gentrification and urban renewal/displacement, and urbanization in low-income countries of the world.
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  • SOC 3480: Environmental Sociology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    In this course we will take a social scientific approach to critically discuss and evaluate societal changes and their impact on local environmental conditions as well as the global ecosystem. We will primarily (but not exclusively) focus on structural issues in macro-comparative context since these are the professor's areas of expertise. Environmental sociology is a relatively diverse area that crosses trivial disciplinary boundaries-it would be impossible to introduce all its key theoretical perspectives and research agendas in one quarter. Thus, we will address some of the most salient macro-level human/environment topics in contemporary environmental degradation, contemporary theories in environmental sociology, systemic causes and social consequences of environmental disruption, collective responses to environmental disruption, global challenges to climate change policy, and the effects of globalization on environmental degradation (e.g. greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, water pollution) and human well being (malnutrition, hunger, infant mortality). Indeed, we will see that the structural causes of environmental degradation and human suffering are often not mutually exclusive.
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  • SOC 3486: Global Enviro Crisis

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    In this course we will engage some of the most central topics in comparative environmental sociology. The course will include a balance of theoretical and empirical works on topics including the origins of environmental sociology, transnational environmental justice research, competing perspectives on economic growth and the environment, international political economy and the environment, world society and the environment, structural human ecology, and the challenges of international environmental policy development and implementation. Students will critically evaluate important written works on these and other topics, and will conduct their own comparative research project on a topic of relevance to environmental sociology.
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  • SOC 3510: Special Topics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

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  • SOC 3560: Deviant Beh/Soc Control

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Sociologists of the past saw the study of deviance as the study of nuts, sluts, and perverts. Contemporary sociologists have a more nuanced and critical perspective on the subject. This course is an historical, theoretical, and ultimately, sociological exploration of the field of deviant behavior, describing and analyzing particular forms of socially defined deviant behavior including murder, rape, prostitution, and illegal drug use, among other topics covered.
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  • SOC 3561: Criminology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Who are you more likely to be victimized by-a stranger or someone known to you? How realistic are TV crime shows? These and other questions regarding crime, its context, and its causes will be answered in this class. Four major areas of criminology are explored: the history of criminology, theory of crime causation, typologies of crime, and crime prevention efforts. Specifically, students will be introduced to the nature and extent of crime, the criminal justice system, various theories explaining why crime occurs, different types of crimes, and recent efforts to deal with and prevent crime.
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  • SOC 3562: Juvenile Delinquency

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Are children today more violent than in the past? What are the current trends and patterns in the delinquency committed by juveniles today? Juvenile Delinquency explore the nature and extent of delinquency, various theories explaining why juvenile delinquency occurs, and different types of delinquency, as well as the state of and issues in the juvenile justice system. Overall, the goal of this course is to enable students to think sociologically and critically about issues related to juvenile delinquency.
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