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SOCIOLOGY (SOCI)

Chair: Dennis McNamara (202) 687-3658
Department of Sociology and Anthropology website

PRE SESSION (May 19-June 13)

Introduction to Sociology
Gibbons
SOCI-001-01
M-F 1:00-3:00 p.m.
3 cr.

The purpose of this course is to scientifically examine the basic processes that shape social life.  The course provides an introduction to such areas of study as: work and economy; culture; social stratification; global inequality; race and ethnicity; gender; politics; and social change.  The aim of the course is to engage students in critical analysis of society and take part in the discourse of contemporary social issues. 

Social Deviance
Schiwietz
SOCI-030-01
M-F 3:15-5:15 p.m.
3 cr.

The Social Deviance course focuses on theories and issues concerning culturally stigmatized behavior.  Areas of criminality will be addressed but will be balanced by the study of non-criminal acts of a deviant nature.  Social Deviance ranges from organized unconventional life-styles to the opposite extreme of cultural rejection.  This course is designed to elicit questions about the determination of deviance in theory and in experience through the study of both qualitative and quantitative research, periodicals, and other scholarly works.

FIRST SESSION (June 2-July 3)

Social Inequality
Mashayekhi
SOCI-140-10
M-F 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
3 cr.

The purpose of this course is to study and explain the nature of social inequality as it relates to American society.  Although inequality has many dimensions -- economic, political and socio-cultural -- this course's emphasis will be on economic (class) inequality.  In addition to economic and occupational aspects of class inequality, we will also introduce some issues related to the reproduction of class inequality, such as the impact of politics and ideology through the mass media.  Further, we will examine the impact of globalization on economic inequality, both on a domestic as well as an international scale.

Race & Ethnic Relations
Schiwietz
SOCI-144-10
M-F 1:00-2:30 p.m.
3 cr.

In this course we will explore several themes, although the overriding theme will be the transformed nature of racism in the United States and how it creates, reinforces, and perpetuates racial inequality.  After discussing the socially constructed and problematic nature of racial categorization, we will focus on how race and racism is learned.  We will trace how racial difference is created and eventually generates socially segregated patterns by adolescence, which in turn become solidified in adulthood.  We will then explore, in detail, racism and privilege as systemic, institutionalized features of U.S. society.  In particular, we will examine how modern racism has been coded and masked itself in seemingly race-neutral, color-blind language and practices.  In doing so, we will translate the subtle racial meanings of this code.  We will then look at how this color-blind racism, coupled with structural obstacles in arenas such as housing, the education system, the economy and job market, and the criminal justice system, help to maintain racial inequality.

SECOND SESSION (July 7-August 8)

Introduction to Sociology
Staff
SOCI-001-20
M-F 10:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
3 cr.

The purpose of this course is to scientifically examine the basic processes that shape social life.  The course provides an introduction to such areas of study as: work and economy; culture; social stratification; global inequality; race and ethnicity; gender; politics; and social change.  The aim of the course is to engage students in critical analysis of society and take part in the discourse of contemporary social issues.