Department of Sociology
FACULTY:
Professor: Nishida (chairperson) Associate Professors: Cook, Corwin Assistant Professor: Fox
Objectives: The Sociology major is designed to acquaint the student with the principal problems and issues in sociology; to teach application of knowledge to occupations and professions and to prepare for further graduate study. Upon completion of the major in Sociology, the student should be able to identify the foremost individuals, their work and major ideas of any given period of the development of social thought; use in a meaningful way the terminology of sociology and other social sciences so as to evaluate the content of learned periodicals and converse with others in the related fields; feel a deep personal concern for human need due to a systematic exposure to the pressing social dilemmas that face us daily; appreciate the relevance of sociological insight to the Christian who would be aware , caring, progressive and productive; clarify the basic tensions between sociology and theology (both actual and imagined); defend the study of sociology as a desirable Christian liberal arts major and as a necessary prerequisite for a wide range of professional fields; develop a rather well-defined personal theoretical orientation in terms of past as well as existing social theory; participate with social and religious agencies on a paraprofessional level through direct involvement in social work, correctional work, rehabilitation , hot line service, or counselling; formulate sound critical judgments of current social research; conduct independent study or research and produce scholarly results; proceed to graduate school with a competitive undergraduate background for preparation for professions in sociology and related fields. Department Major: 30 units, of which 24 must be upper division, including 220, 442 and 443. In addition, Psychology 206 is required as a supporting course. Department Minor: 15 units of upper division courses. 220 SOCIOLOGY (3) 351 DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL THOUGHT (3) Survey of social groups; their fields and methods, their Outstanding social thinkers of the 19th century; ideas of men interactions and effects on the individual; consideration of compared and contrasted within the various societies as culture, roles, socialization norms, social classes, institutions, background to the development of social thought. and minority groups. 352 SOCIAL CONTROL (3) 320 MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY (3) The processes by which conformity of the individual to the The family as a social institution; historical development of group is obtained and by which social organization is the modem family; current trends in family structure and established and maintained. functions; problems of family life; analysis of American 354 SOCIAL INTERACTION (3) courtship and marriage patterns. Sociological contributions to theory and research in social 330 JUVENILE DELINQUENCY (3) psychology bearing on the relationship between culture and Character, extent, and causes of juvenile delinquency; social group life to human behavior and personality; analysis of diagnosis and case study; modem methods of treatment; symbolic processes, role behavior, psycho-social processes personal and environmental conditioning factors ; survey of and social reference groups; socialization and the social methods employed in research. aspect, attitudes, values, and beliefs in relationship to groups. Prerequisite: Psychology 206. 333 CRIMINOLOGY (3) 356 SOCIOLOGY OF ADULT LIFE AND Social and psychological factors in criminal behavior; criminal AGING (3) law and criminal justice; prevention and control: trends in Nature, theory and functions of aging; existing approaches to theory and correctional procedures, probation, parole. death and dying. Western and non-western experiences 342 ETHNIC AND MINORITY GROUPS (3) compared. Analysis of ethnic and cultural minorities in the United States; 357 SOCIOLOGY OF WORK AND PROFESSIONS (3) theory and practice of intergroup relations. Development of occupational roles with emphasis on 346 URBAN SOCIOLOGY (3) • specialization, division of labor and mobility; impact of The urban community and urbanization ; its growth, occupations on the family , economy, government, education, institutions, values, and problems, scientific study of and religion; special focus on development of work and population from the spatial patterning and mobility viewpoint ; professions in the United States. effect of urbanization upon institutions; social relations and 362 SOCIAL PROBLEMS (3) national economy. Major problems of social maladjustment from the viewpoint of 349 POPULATION (3) the underlying processes of individual and social Population theory, composition, distribution, growth, and disorganization ; deviant behavior, such as mental disorders, migration with differential fertility and mortality rates of crime and delinquency, suicide, drug and alcohol addiction ; groups and nations; national and international migration and social disorganization , such as population problems, family, overpopulation problems. poverty, and war.
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