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Lecture—4 hours; discussion—1 hour. Principles and basic concepts of sociology. The study of groups, culture, collective behavior, classes and caste, community and ecology, role, status, and personality. GE credit: SocSci.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Principles and basic concepts of sociological social psychology. Includes the study of the character of the self, identity, roles, socialization, identity change, emotion and social interaction. GE credit: SocSci, Wrt.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. General sociological consideration of contemporary social problems in relation to sociocultural change and programs for improvement. GE credit: SocSci, Wrt.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour or term paper. Social and demographic analysis of immigration: motives and experiences of immigrants; immigration and social mobility; immigration, assimilation, and social change; multicultural societies. Detailed study of immigration into the U.S., with comparative studies of Europe, Australia, and other host countries. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.—I. (I.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. An introduction to change and diversity in world history, including the United States. Examines population and family, technological change and economic development, power and status, culture and identity. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.—III. (III.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Labor and employment issues in the contemporary United States with some use of historical and comparative materials. Topics will include strategies pursued by employers and employees, labor market discrimination and the role of social policies in shaping labor markets. GE Credit: SocSci, Wrt.—II. (II.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Social mechanisms that shape modern popular culture. High, folk, and mass culture: historical emergence of popular culture. Mass media, commercialization, ideology and cultural styles. Theories and methods for analyzing cultural expressions in pop music, street art, film, television, and advertising. GE credit: SocSci, Wrt.—II, III. (II, III.)
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Lecture—1.5 hours; discussion—1.5 hours. Macrostructural analysis of contemporary multicultural societies; immigration and assimilation in comparative perspective; social construction of racial and ethnic group identities; ethnicity and gender; group conflict and cooperation; controversies surrounding multiculturalism. First course in a two-course Multicultural Immersion Program. GE credit: SocSci, Div.—I. (I.)
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Lecture—1.5 hours; discussion—1.5 hours. Prerequisite: course 30A or consent of instructor. Social-psychological analysis of personal experiences living in a multicultural society; conforming to or rejecting group identity or stereotypes; managing and reducing conflict; cross-cultural communication; promises and problems of diversity at UC Davis. Second course in a two-course Multicultural Immersion Program. GE credit: SocSci, Div.—II. (II.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour or term paper or project (instructor’s option). Examination of the methodological problems of social research. Selection and definition of problems of investigation, data-gathering techniques, and sampling.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour or term paper or research project. Data-analysis techniques, measurement, scaling, multivariate analysis, and quantitative measures of association.—II, III. (II, III.)
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Seminar—1-2 hours. Prerequisite: lower division standing and consent of instructor. Examination of a special topic in sociology through shared readings, discussions, written assignments, or special activities such as fieldwork, laboratory work, etc. May not be repeated for credit. Limited enrollment.
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Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Primarily intended for lower division students. (P/NP grading only.)
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Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper or discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 1; consent of instructor; restricted to upper division standing. The origins of modern sociological thought. Special emphasis on three major theorists from the classical tradition of nineteenth century European social thought: Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim. GE credit: Wrt.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper or discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: introductory course in Sociology recommended. California’s distinctive society and culture; sociological analyses of topical issues concerning diversity, environment, cities.
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour or field research (instructor’s option). Prerequisite: course 46A and 46B, or Statistics 13 or the equivalent. Surveys applications of research methods to the evaluation of social programs, primarily emphasizing methodological issues, e.g., research design and data collection; uses of evaluation research are also discussed and placed in theoretical context. Participation in an evaluation project.—III. (III.)
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper or discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: upper division standing. Analysis of worldwide migration patterns, and social scientific theories of international and transnational migration. Focus in economical, political, and social impact of immigration and potential for international and regional cooperation. (Same course as International Relations 104).—II. (II.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 46B or Statistics 13 or the equivalent. Intermediate level course in statistical analysis of social data, emphasizing the logic and use of statistical measures, procedures, and mathematical models especially relevant to sociological analysis.—I, III. (I, III.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour or term paper or research project. Relation of social cleavages and social cohesion to the functioning of political institutions; the social bases of local and national power structures; social sources of political movement, analysis of concepts of alienation, revolution, ideology, ruling class, and elite.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.)
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper or discussion. Social structural sources, institutional practices and microprocesses associated with illegality, evil, disease, immorality, disability, racial and class differences, citizenship, and the body. Special emphasis on expert knowledge and the production and management of social difference. GE credit: Wrt.—I, II. (I, II.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour or term paper or research project. Chronological age and social status; analysis of social processes bearing upon the socialization of children and adolescents. The emergence of “youth cultures.” Generational succession as a cultural problem.—II. (II.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour or term paper or research project. The demographic and social structure of American society and population, with emphasis on ethnic and class groups as bases for political and economic interest. Attention to selected current social controversies.
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper or discussion—1 hour (instructor’s option). Education and the social structure. Class size, curriculum, and economies of scale. Relations between families and schools in socialization; familial ascription and educational achievement. Education and industrialization. Organizational and occupational structure of schools. Discussion of selected controversies.—I. (I.)
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Sociological approaches to study of historical and contemporary culture and mass media, and their structuring in relation to social actors, institutions, stratification, power, the production of culture, audiences, and the significance of culture in processes of change. GE credit: SocSci.—I, II. (I, II.)
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