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May 31, 2023

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Chrisy Moutsatsos
Woman And The Body
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Cultural Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
The goal of this course is to make visible to students the multiple relationships between the female body, culture, and society. We will begin by problematizing the concept of the "body," and the specific ways in which the female body has come to be known...
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Robert F. Lovely
Technique 2: Development of Sociology and the Intellectual, Industrial and French Revolutions
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Teaching and Learning in Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Abstract:
Teaching Objectives/Student Learning Outcomes: To capture the turmoil of the 18th and 19th centuries through paintings; to give students a feeling of revolution and change that prompted a science of society; and to provide a background for Durkheim, Weber, Marx,...
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E.H. Epstein
Debates
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Education
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
Each student will be expected to participate in three debates during the semester. Each debate will represent 20 percent of the student’s grade. The debates will be presented orally to the class and as written documents. They will be evaluated largely on written...
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Lori McNeil
Methods of Sociological Research
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Qualitative Methodology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
Course Objective: To provide an introduction to basic sociological methods including exposure to the most common qualitative and quantitative methodological designs. Through lectures, exams, in-class exercises, experiments and activities, class discussions, the...
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John Conklin
CRIME AND DELINQUENCY – SOC 112
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Criminology/Delinquency
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 100
Abstract:
This course will examine research on criminal behavior and criminal offenders. We will consider problems of definition and statistical assessment, theories of causation, and public and criminal justice system responses to crime. The objectives of the course are • to...
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Patricia Drew
Reading Response Prompts for Social Perspectives on Women: Bodies and Identities
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Cultural Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
The goal of this volume is to provide more information about teaching this course and to provide various frameworks for understanding and studying the body. Our hope is that this volume is the first of many editions and that its content will create more dialogue and...
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Michelle R. Rainey
Technique 34: Theoretical Paradigms, Deviance, Delinquency
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Teaching and Learning in Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
Teaching Objectives/Student Learning Outcomes: The major objective of this activity is to ensure that students learn how to use one sociological paradigm to analyze a variety of events. They will form a better understanding of how sociologists analyze many different...
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Michael Olneck
GRADUATE FINAL EXAMINATION
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Education
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
List of exam questions related to the sociology of education.
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Paul Khalil Saucier
Soc U270: Race and Ethnic Relations
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Racial and Ethnic Relations
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
Using a sociological approach, this course will examine how race and ethnicity are socially constructed and maintained by interpersonal relationships and social structures (e.g. the state). Our main lens to observe society will be race and by extension ethnicity, but...
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Sue-Ming Yang
RESEARCH METHODS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Criminology/Delinquency
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 100
Abstract:
This course, a survey of different research efforts and results in the field of criminal justice, deals with the issue of how to conduct research in the criminal justice field. We will cover various research designs, sampling issues, survey construction,...
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