Using a symbolic interactionist approach, this course examines central features of urban community life. Particular attention is given to the...
Approaching entertainment from a symbolic interactionist perspective, this course examines entertainment as a set of socially constituted and engaged...
Total institutions are concerned with resocialization of inmates. This course considers the structure of maximum security prisons, mental hospitals,...
This course examines how our contemporary concern with community is connected with the rise of modern society and the development of the urban-rural...
Examines the social construction of law and its administration as a social process. Topics will include: law as an instrument of social control and...
In the tradition of sociology as a moral science, this course asks how, if at all, good and evil can be empirically distinguished and accounted for....
This course will deal with selected topics in Sociology. Subjects will be dependent upon the research and/or instructional interests of faculty....
An examination of the growing sociological literature on women's roles, experiences, realities, problems and challenges. Particular emphasis is placed...
The design of sample surveys. Survey procedures from the conceptual level through sampling, measurement, questionnaire design, administration and...
An independent in-depth study of a selected area of concern to the student within the discipline of Sociology. Available to individuals or small...
An examination of sociological theories of gender and gender relations. Emphasis is placed on tracing historical changes in interpretations of gender,...
The course examines key substantive, theoretical, and methodological issues of the sociology of religion through the detailed study of important...
The seminar undertakes to develop a general theory of the relation of social thought to social action, comparative value systems and the role of the...
An analysis of selected original writings by the major figures in the classical sociological tradition of the 19th and early 20th centuries and...
An analysis of selected original writings by influential figures in contemporary theory (i.e., mid-20th century onwards) and selected critical...
We examine the development of sociological theory in Canada by focusing on major historical and contemporary figures and theories representative of...
Deals with recent controversies in sociological theory; e.g., Giddens' theories of structuration and the state; critical theory, including the works...
Using a symbolic interactionist frame, this course examines the enduring problem of connecting social theory and human activity. Building on some of...
An application of symbolic interactionist theory, this course examines the contingencies affecting data collection and analysis of ongoing group life....