USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]
Sociology
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The Department of Sociology offers bachelor’s degrees in Sociology, Health and the Human Sciences, and Non-Governmental Organizations and Social Change. The Department of Sociology also offers a number of minors and the Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology. Students of sociology examine the patterns of social life, focusing on the relationship of individuals to society and the interaction of culture, economy and politics in shaping social life. The greater Los Angeles area provides a natural laboratory for students to explore such sociological themes as race relations, work and the workplace, immigration, the family in a changing society, population trends, globalization, religion, and the criminal justice system. Matching the special strengths of our faculty and cutting edge research in the discipline, USC’s sociology program offers students the opportunity to learn about social issues locally, nationally, and internationally, as well as develop empirical research tools to conduct research, and analyze and interpret data in order to create social change. Many of our undergraduate courses include opportunities to engage actively with the community and to pursue multi-faceted independent research projects.
Hazel and Stanley Hall 314
(213) 740-3533
FAX: (213) 740-3535
Email: soci@dornsife.usc.edu
dornsife.usc.edu/soci/
Chair: Tim Biblarz*, PhD
Faculty
University Professor and Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society and Professor of Communication, Sociology, Planning and International Relations: Manuel Castells, PhD (Communication)
Harold Quinton Chair of Business Policy and Professor of Management & Organization, Environmental Studies and Sociology: Paul Adler, PhD (Management & Organization)
Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change and Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity: Manuel Pastor, Jr.*, PhD
Professors: Lynne Casper, PhD; Nina Eliasoph, PhD; Peer C. Fiss, PhD (Management and Organization); Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo*, PhD; Andrew Lakoff, PhD; Paul Lichterman, PhD; Michael Messner*, PhD; Dowell Myers, PhD (Policy, Planning and Development); Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, PhD; Camille Rich, JD (Law); Avelardo Valdez, PhD (Social Work); John P. Wilson*, PhD
Associate Professors: Tim Biblarz*, PhD; Jennifer Hook, PhD; Elaine Bell Kaplan, PhD; Ann Owens, PhD; Emily Ryo, PhD (Law); Leland Saito, PhD; Jody Agius Vallejo*, PhD; Lori Qingyuan Yue, PhD (Management and Organization)
Assistant Professors: Jennifer Ailshire, PhD (Gerontology); Jessica Ho, PhD (Gerontology); Daniel Schrage, PhD; Joshua Seim, PhD; Emily Smith-Greenaway, PhD; Hajar Ferrell, PhD
Lecturers: Juliana McGene, PhD; Joseph Palacios, PhD
Professor (Research): Brian Finch, PhD
Professor (Teaching): Karen Sternheimer, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor (Teaching): Erin Quinn, PhD
Emeritus Professors: Constance Ahrons, PhD; Vern Bengtson, PhD (Gerontology); Lamar T. Empey, PhD; Malcolm Klein; Jon Miller*, PhD; H. Edward Ransford, PhD; Maurice D. Van Arsdol Jr., PhD
*Recipient of university-wide or college teaching award.
Undergraduate Degrees
Honors Program
Seniors with 3.5 GPAs in the major and 3.25 overall are encouraged to apply to the sociology honors program. Under faculty guidance, honors students design and complete a significant piece of original sociological research. Seniors with 3.5 GPAs in the major and 3.25 overall are encouraged to apply to the sociology honors program. Under faculty guidance, honors students design and complete a significant piece of original sociological research.
Juniors and seniors who have made substantial progress toward completion of the program and have achieved a 3.3. GPA in sociology and a 3.0 GPA overall are eligible for the Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honors Society.
University Requirements for All Minors
To satisfy the university’s minor requirements, students must choose at least four courses (16 units) outside their major department and at least four courses (16 units) of upper-division course work. In addition, at least four courses (16 units) must be dedicated to the minor (not counting for credit toward a major, another minor or USC core requirements).
Interdisciplinary Minors
American Studies and Ethnicity (see American Studies and Ethnicity ).
Law and Society (see Political Science ).
Race, Ethnicity and Politics (see Political Science ).
Graduate Degrees
The Department of Sociology offers programs of study leading to the Doctor of Philosophy degree. The PhD is directed toward the training of theoretically and methodologically sophisticated sociologists who have an enduring commitment to the practice and teaching of sociology.
Deadline
Applicants must complete their applications by December 1. Consideration for university fellowships is possible as early as November for students whose applications are complete.
Prerequisites
All applicants must have a bachelor’s degree, a GPA of at least 3.0, and one or more courses in either undergraduate statistics or college algebra.
Criteria
Admission to regular graduate status ordinarily requires possession of a bachelor’s degree, a GPA of at least 3.0, one or more courses in undergraduate statistics and/or college algebra, and three letters of recommendation. The GRE is also required. International applicants must also submit their score on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or International English Language Testing System (IELTS). Approximately 5–8 students enroll each year from the available pool of applicants. Each application receives careful attention and is judged in terms of the full set of criteria.
A limited number of graduate course units taken elsewhere may be considered for transfer into the graduate program. These units are transferred in on a course-by-course basis.
Application Procedures
The following materials should be submitted to apply for graduate study:
- an online USC application form (available at gradadm.usc.edu) plus a check for the admission fee;
- official transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate work;
- the official results of the general aptitude scores of the Graduate Record Examinations (verbal, quantitative, and analytical);
- for international students, a TOEFL or IELTS score;
- a completed Sociology Department Graduate Application form (please save and upload);
- one example of written work (normally a paper written for a course) of no more than 20 pages;
- three letters of recommendation from persons who can write about your academic performance and your potential as a social scientist;
- a personal statement describing (1) your present sociological interest, (2) the books, articles or ideas that have had the greatest influence on your interests in sociology, and (3) what you hope to be doing in the field of sociology 10 years after you receive your degree. We welcome you to include other aspects of your experience that you think are important sources of your sociological interests. We stress, though, that an effective personal statement will illustrate your intellectual engagement and your interest in producing high-quality scholarship.
Degree Requirements
These degrees are under the jurisdiction of the Graduate School. Refer to the Requirements for Graduation section and The Graduate School section of this catalogue for general regulations. All courses applied toward the degrees must be courses accepted by the Graduate School.
Residence
All graduate students must be in residence and must take at least eight units of graduate work each semester (except during Advanced and Qualifying Examinations), prior to work on the dissertation.
Master of Arts in Sociology
The department does not admit students whose objective is a master’s degree. However, if a student accepted in the program does not have a master’s degree, the department strongly recommends completion of the requirements for the MA in the course of work toward the PhD degree.
Bachelor’s Degree
Minor
Doctoral Degree
Sociology
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SOCI 100gm Los Angeles and the American Dream Units: 4
Los Angeles as a metaphor for the American Dream, exploring the city’s history and potential futures, including economic opportunity, social justice, spatial organization, and environmental sustainability.
Satisfies Old General Education in Category VI: Social Issues
Duplicates Credit in the former AMST 100gm and GEOG 100gm.
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 142gm Diversity and Racial Conflict Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Introduction to the causes and effects of contemporary race relations in a diverse U.S. society. Exploration of racial conflict at the personal and institutional levels.
Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
Satisfies Old General Education in Category VI: Social Issues
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 150gm Social Problems Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Analysis of factors in current American social problems: crime, delinquency, prostitution, family disorganization, race relations, mental illness.
Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
Satisfies Old General Education in Category VI: Social Issues
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 155gm Immigrant America Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Examination of the immigrant experience in the United States. Comparative analysis of social context of migration, formation of immigrant communities, and social integration of immigrants.
Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
Satisfies Old General Education in Category VI: Social Issues
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 169gm Changing Family Forms Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
The peculiarity of the “modern” Western family system in historical and cross cultural perspective; focus on the “postmodern” family crisis in the United States.
Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
Satisfies Old General Education in Category VI: Social Issues
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 200gm Introduction to Sociology Units: 4
Basic concepts of sociology with special reference to group life, social institutions, and social processes.
Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 210g Science, Technology, and Social Conflict Units: 4
Science and technology change society and how we understand ourselves. In turn, social struggles influence science. We will explore the interplay between these forces.
Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
Satisfies Old General Education in Category VI: Social Issues
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 215g Sociology of Wall Street Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Examines Wall Street as a: market for allocating investment; arbiter of prices; place to work; and a powerful force directing the activities of corporations everywhere.
Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 220gm Questions of Intimacy Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Analysis of conditions of intimacy and intimate personal relationships as lenses for understanding social inequalities of race, social class, gender, sexuality, and nation.
Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
Satisfies Old General Education in Category VI: Social Issues
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 225gw Sociology of Health and the Body Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Investigation of health as a social category and the varied ways that social and cultural factors shape bodies and health.
Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
Satisfies Global Perspective in Category G: Citizenship in a Diverse World
Satisfies Old General Education in Category VI: Social Issues
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 242g Sociology, Demography, and Health Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
Sociological and demographic concepts focusing on the causes of disease, health and wellness. Empirical analysis of population composition and its connection to health.
Prerequisite: BISC 120Lg or BISC 220Lg
Recommended Preparation: Prepares pre-health students for sociology portion of the MCAT. Registration priority given to pre-health students.
Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
Satisfies Old General Education in Category VI: Social Issues
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 250gmw Grassroots Participation in Global Perspective Units: 4
Theory and history behind the ideal of “the local, grassroots volunteer”: a direct link between theory and research using Los Angeles as a case study.
Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
Satisfies Global Perspective in Category G: Citizenship in a Diverse World
Satisfies Old General Education in Category VI: Social Issues
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 255g Sociology of Globalization Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
This course examines globalization through social and economic processes and its consequences for social conflict, economic development, human rights, social movements, and national identity.
Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
Satisfies Old General Education in Category VI: Social Issues
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 270g Sociological Theory Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Historical and contemporary approaches to sociological theory; analysis of conceptual frameworks applied to the study of society and social interaction.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm
Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
Registration Restriction: Open only to NGOS and SOCI majors, and SOCI minors
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 370
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 275 Sociology of Everyday Life Units: 4
The social philosophy of understanding everyday life; describing and analyzing forms of interaction, emotions, knowledge, and the social self.
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SOCI 305m Sociology of Childhood Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Social construction of childhoods; children’s social relations and cultures; issues of childcare, poverty, violence, and children’s rights; effects of children on adults.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm
Recommended Preparation: SOCI 270 or SOCI 370
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 313L Sociological Research Methods Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Logic of theory construction, research design, elementary data collection and analysis.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 314Lg Analyzing Social Statistics Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
Sociological measurement, univariate description, elementary correlation, introduction to statistical inference.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm
Satisfies New General Education in Category F: Quantitative Reasoning
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 325 Applied Social Research Methods Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Use quantitative or qualitative analysis skills to study major social issues using large existing survey data sets or qualitative methods. Become conversant in describing data to a variety of audiences.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm and SOCI 270 and SOCI 313L and SOCI 314Lg
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 335 Society and Population Units: 4
World population trends and their consequences: determinants of fertility, mortality, and migration; development of elementary models of population change.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 340 Organizations: Bureaucracy and Alternatives to Bureaucracy Units: 4
Importance of organizations in social life; techniques for using and changing organizations; examination of strategies for building and sustaining nonbureaucratic organizations.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 342m Race Relations Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Past and present relations between the White majority and the “conquered minorities” (Blacks, Chicanos, American Indians), as well as Asian immigrants; conflict vs. assimilation perspectives.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 345 Social Institutions Units: 4
Cultural and interactional aspects of social institutions as complex social systems; religious, political, industrial, and familial institutions.
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SOCI 350 Social Exclusion, Social Power, and Deviance Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Current theories of origin, distribution, and control of deviant behavior; examination of processes involved in the career deviance of drug addicts, alcoholics, sexual deviants, gamblers, and mentally disordered.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 351 Public Policy and Juvenile Justice Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Past and current theories of youth crime; gangs and other forms of youth deviance; the changing response of the police, courts, and public to these behaviors.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm
Recommended Preparation: SOCI 314Lg
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 353 Public Policy and Criminal Justice Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Nature and trends in crime, policing, courts, and correctional agencies in relation to past, current, and prospective changes in society.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm
Recommended Preparation: SOCI 314Lg
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 355m Immigrants in the United States Units: 4
Social construction of historical and contemporary immigration to the United States, including causes of migration, immigration policies, and the socioeconomic integration of immigrants.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 356m Mexican Immigrants in Sociological Perspective Units: 4
Effects of class, global inequality, legal status, gender, racial/ethnic, and language differences in distinguishing Mexican immigrant populations from the U.S.-born population; differentiation among Mexican immigrants.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 357m Latino Politics Units: 4
(Enroll in AMST 357 )
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SOCI 360m Social Inequality: Class, Status, and Power Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Inequalities in wealth, prestige, and power in the United States; the American class structure and the extent of upward mobility in that structure.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm
Recommended Preparation: SOCI 314Lg
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 362 Global and Transnational Sociology Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Examines key issues in global and transnational sociology. Globalization is the empirical phenomenon where social, economic, and political interconnectedness across countries impacts the world.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 364m Racial and Ethnic Women in America Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
(Enroll in SWMS 364m)
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SOCI 369 The Family in a Changing Society Units: 4
Changing family patterns; personality development; family unity, predicting success in marriage; the family in transition; crises such as economic changes, death, divorce; family reorganization.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as SWMS 369 -
SOCI 376m Contemporary Issues in Asian American Communities Units: 4
Survey of current social and political issues facing Asian American communities with emphasis on Los Angeles region; design and implementation of community-based research projects.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as AMST-376 -
SOCI 379gm Mixing and Matching: Intermarriage in 21st Century Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
(Enroll in JS 379 )
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SOCI 382 Judaism as an American Religion Units: 4
(Enroll in JS 382 )
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SOCI 386m Men and Masculinity Units: 4
(Enroll in SWMS 385 )
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SOCI 390 Special Problems Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 402 Human Trafficking Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Interrogates the social construction of the legal category “human trafficking,” examining the ideological foundations, the social contentions, and political issues surrounding the issue.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm and SOCI 313L and SOCI 314Lg
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as SWMS 402 -
SOCI 408 Volunteers, Non-Governmental Organizations, and Everyday Politics Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
Theory, practice, and history of civic life. Examines communication, personal obligation, collective imagination, and political representation, in grassroots, state-sponsored, and non-governmental organization-sponsored civic associations around the world.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 410 The Sociology of Popular Culture Units: 4
From the entertainment capital of the world, course surveys sociological research on artistic producers and critical theories of the connections between popular culture and society.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 425 Social Movements: Power, Resistance, and Political Dynamics Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
When do groups mobilize to defend or resist power? Explores collective mobilization including student protest, minority rights and labor movements, the alt-right, and revolutions.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm and SOCI 313L and SOCI 314Lg and SSCI 301L
Recommended Preparation: SOCI 325 and SSCI 301L may be taken concurrently
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 429 Immigration, Work and Labor Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Examination of the experiences of racial minorities in the labor market, niche concentration, the effects of globalization on labor migration, entrepreneurship, discrimination, and minorities in white-collar occupations.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm and SOCI 313L and SOCI 314Lg
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 430m Work and the Workplace Units: 4
Contrasting views of work in contemporary societies; technological change in the workplace; opportunity, inequality, conflict, and alienation in different occupations.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 431 Cities Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Organization of urban society, including such topics as segregation, urban decay, local politics, residential change, and community conflict.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm and SOCI 270 and SOCI 313L and SOCI 314Lg
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 331
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 432m Racial and Ethnic Relations in a Global Society Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Examines race/ethnic relations with U.S. and selected countries from a global perspective, causes/social effects of globalization on people’s lives, U.S. attitudes, and political policies.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm and SOCI 313L and SOCI 314Lg
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as AMST 432 -
SOCI 435m Women in Society Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Women today in the labor force, in politics, and in the family. Past and contemporary attempts to expand the position of women in society.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm and SOCI 313L and SOCI 314Lg
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as SWMS 435 -
SOCI 445 Political and Social Theory Units: 4
Max Units: 08
Terms Offered: FaSp
Classical and contemporary theories of power, inequality, sociability, symbols and language in market, state, political, and civic organizations.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 450 Non-Governmental Organizations/Non-profits Field Practicum Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Internship in a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). Students will conduct sociological research on issues surrounding NGOs and the work they do.
Prerequisite: SOCI 250gmw and (SOCI 313L or SOCI 314Lg )
Registration Restriction: Open only to juniors and seniors.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 460 Key Issues in Contemporary International Migration Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Overview of contemporary patterns of international migration and its implications for receiving and sending countries, with a special emphasis on immigration to the United States.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm and SOCI 313L and SOCI 314Lg
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 464 Sociology of Gender and Work Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Examination of gender inequality in the U.S. labor market; work-family conflict; employer remedies; comparative social policy.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm and SOCI 313L and SOCI 314Lg
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as SWMS 464 -
SOCI 465 Visual Sociology of the City and Its Residents Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
Students examine images of urban America and use the camera to produce visual representation in their analysis of social relations.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm and SOCI 270 and SOCI 313L and SOCI 314Lg
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 365
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 468 Sociology of Religion Units: 4
(Enroll in REL 468 )
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SOCI 470 Social Change in Low-Income Countries Units: 4
Theories and case studies on social, economic, political, and cultural development and change in the Third World: Latin America, Asia, or Africa.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm and SOCI 313L and SOCI 314Lg
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 472 Health, Disease, Language and Culture: Guatemala Units: 3
Terms Offered: Sm
Studies health, illness, disease, culture, language and social-economic burdens that affect Guatemala. Students will be immersed into day-to-day life, studying from practitioners in the field.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 475 Medical Sociology Units: 4
Social and cultural factors in causation of disease, health care utilization and health care delivery.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 480 The Sociology of Risk and Disaster Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Is there such a thing as a “natural” disaster? Examination of both natural and technological disasters, and exploration of the centrality of risk in industrialized societies.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm and SOCI 313L and SOCI 314Lg
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 490x Directed Research Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Max Units: 12.0
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
Individual research and readings.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 494 Sociology Honors Seminar I Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Advanced seminar involving extensive reading, research and discussions. Selected subjects; offered in fall only and restricted to honors students. Acceptance into the Honors Program.
Prerequisite: SOCI 200gm and SOCI 313L and SOCI 314Lg
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 495 Sociology Honors Seminar II Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Seminar in workshop form to accompany completion of Senior Honors Thesis under faculty guidance. Acceptance into Honors Program.
Prerequisite: SOCI 313 , SOCI 494 .
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 499 Special Topics Units: 2, 3, 4
Max Units: 8.0
An interdisciplinary examination of selected emerging issues.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 500 Sociology Professional Seminar Units: 2
Terms Offered: FaSp
Introduces students to the theoretical questions and methodological approaches that comprise the discipline of sociology. Experts in each subfield share their latest research with students.
Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral Sociology majors
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 510 Sociological Theory I Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Developments in sociological theory from the discipline’s 19th century origins to World War II.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 511 Sociological Theory II Units: 4
Developments in sociological theory from World War II to the present.
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 610.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 520 Qualitative Research Methods Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Seminar in epistemologies, ethics, and techniques of qualitative research. Critical reading and practice in social observation, interviewing, fieldwork, and research design. Preparation of IRB proposal.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 521 Quantitative Methods and Statistics Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Introduction to the logic and methods of quantitative analysis in sociology; covers the basic elements of designing and research, summarizing and exploring patterns in data, and making generalizations about populations based on characteristics of samples.
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 525 Sociology Proseminar: Approaches to Sociological Research Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Graduate students begin their customized literature reviews and develop a paper that will frame the research they pursue in the empirical paper requirement.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 554 Women in Global Perspective Units: 4
(Enroll in SWMS 554 )
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SOCI 560 Feminist Theory Units: 4
(Enroll in SWMS 560 )
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SOCI 590 Directed Research Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
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SOCI 593 Practicum in Teaching the Liberal Arts Units: 2
Terms Offered: Fa
Practical principles for the long-term development of effective teaching within college disciplines. Intended for teaching assistants in Dornsife College.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
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SOCI 594a Master’s Thesis Units: 2
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
Credit on acceptance of thesis.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
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SOCI 594b Master’s Thesis Units: 2
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
Credit on acceptance of thesis.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
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SOCI 594z Master’s Thesis Units: 0
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
Credit on acceptance of thesis.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
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SOCI 599 Special Topics Units: 2, 3, 4
Max Units: 8.0
Terms Offered: FaSp
Seminar in selected topics in sociology.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 620 Advanced Methods – Qualitative Research Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Seminar and practicum in conducting and interpreting original qualitative research.
Prerequisite: SOCI 520 .
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 524.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 621L Quantitative Methods and Statistics II Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Casual modeling and the inter-relationships among social phenomena: covers the basic elements of casual inference and generalizability, linear regressions analysis, and categorical data analysis.
Prerequisite: SOCI 521
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 622L Advanced Methods – Quantitative Research Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Advanced research methodology in survey technique, evaluation research, instrument construction, and demographic analysis.
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 523
Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 625 Demographic Methods Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Procedures and techniques for the collection, evaluation, and analysis of demographic data; census and vital registration systems; basic measures of demographic components, and the construction of life tables and population projections.
Prerequisite: SOCI 521 .
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 540.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 628 Theories of Aging Units: 4
(Enroll in GERO 628)
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SOCI 640 Sociology of Gender and Sexuality Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Approaches to gender and sexuality within sociology and social theory, highlighting contemporary empirical research on sexualities.
Registration Restriction: Open only to master and doctoral students.
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 530.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as SWMS-640 -
SOCI 642 Sex and Gender in Society Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
The social organization of gender in the contexts of work, families, intimacy, sexuality, reproduction, violence. Variations by race, ethnicity, social class. Processes of social change.
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 552.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as SWMS-642 -
SOCI 643 Sociology of Labor Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Viewing labor and labor movements from a macro/meso/micro perspective. Examination in the formation of labor markets, global economy, organization of work, conditions of work, movements.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 644 Population Trends: Public and Private Policies Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
World and national population trends; causes and implications for economic, health, and social policies.
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 544.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 645 Seminar in World Population Problems Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Demographic characteristics of the major regions of the world; social, economic, and political implications of population trends and methods of demographic analysis.
Prerequisite: 335g.
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 545.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 646 Economic Sociology Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Classical/neoclassical economic models of human action, sociological alternatives, the history of the large corporation, sociological models of production/labor/financial markets… and the role of economic institutions in the larger society.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 647 Political Sociology: Politics, Symbols and Everyday Life Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Political power, conflict and apathy; public symbols, debate and discourse; nationalism; relations between politics, provision of social services and economics in comparative and historical perspective.
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 537.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 648 Fertility Control Policies Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Fertility control policies, and their consequences, including family planning and other pronatalist and antinatalist programs.
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 548.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
Crosslisted as SWMS-648 -
SOCI 649 Migration Policies Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Analysis of migration and population redistribution; policies affecting such migration and redistribution.
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 549.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 651 Seminar in Social Stratification Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Critique of research literature and research methods in the area of social class and social stratification; major theories and theoretical implications of current research.
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 551.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 653 Seminar in Science and Technology Studies Units: 4
Max Units: 8.0
Terms Offered: FaSp
Introduction to key concepts and theories in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies.
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 532.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 655 Seminar in Race Relations Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Current racial problems in the United States and other countries; critiques of literature on race relations.
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 555.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 656 Social Demography Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Theoretical perspectives of population, historical and contemporary accounts of population trends and statistics, and the latest research on the causes and consequences of demographic processes.
Recommended Preparation: enrollment in a PhD program.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 657 Sociology of Culture Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
Cultural theories and forms of cultural analysis appropriate for sociological research; critical examination of theory and research on how culture relates to social structure, social inequality, politics, institutions, and everyday interaction.
Recommended Preparation: SOCI 510 or prior undergraduate or graduate coursework in social science or communication studies.
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 535.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 667 Seminar in Social Deviance Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Deviance and social rules in groups and communities; contemporary social policies involving ethnic, cultural, and social factors.
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 566.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 669 Seminar in Family Sociology Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Origins and consequences of historical change and variation between groups in family structures and processes, relationships, well-being and connections with other social institutions.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 670 Seminar in Organizational Analysis Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Literature evaluation, theory building, and research in the area of large-scale organizations and other types of institutionalized groups.
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 550.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 671 Urban Sociology Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSp
Examination of theories and research on cities in the United States, examining issues such as politics, race, development, and inequality.
Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students.
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 571.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 675 Seminar in Immigration Units: 4
Terms Offered: FaSpSm
Survey of key theoretical approaches and relevant issues in immigration studies. Themes include: transationalism, globalization, gendered migration, segmented assimilation, immigrant labor markets, social incorporation and citizenship.
Duplicates Credit in former SOCI 575.
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter
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SOCI 680 Writing for Publication in Sociology Units: 4
Terms Offered: Sp
Prepares graduate students to publish in peer reviewed journals.
Prerequisite: SOCI 620 or SOCI 622L
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
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