Department of Sociology Fall 2016 Course Descriptions
... political and economic roots of these problems, and the public policies aimed at reducing them. May not be taken by anyone who has already completed SOC 306 or its equivalent. SOC 177 First Year Seminar: What Gender is Your Jayhawk? Joey Sprague Are college men all that different from college women? ...
... political and economic roots of these problems, and the public policies aimed at reducing them. May not be taken by anyone who has already completed SOC 306 or its equivalent. SOC 177 First Year Seminar: What Gender is Your Jayhawk? Joey Sprague Are college men all that different from college women? ...
Deviance, crime and control
... Labeling Perspective • Labeling theory: attempts to explain why some people are viewed as deviants while others are not; also known as societalreaction approach – Societal-reaction approach: another term for labeling theory, designed to remind us that the response to an act, not the behavior, deter ...
... Labeling Perspective • Labeling theory: attempts to explain why some people are viewed as deviants while others are not; also known as societalreaction approach – Societal-reaction approach: another term for labeling theory, designed to remind us that the response to an act, not the behavior, deter ...
Gigi Tevzadze
... fine balance between the size of the text and its content would be upset! To remain constructive, I propose to the author that at crucial points understandable, often-cited knowledge be provided in appendices for those interested in a particular issue. Finally, let us recall that there were six edit ...
... fine balance between the size of the text and its content would be upset! To remain constructive, I propose to the author that at crucial points understandable, often-cited knowledge be provided in appendices for those interested in a particular issue. Finally, let us recall that there were six edit ...
Emerging Welfare Blueprints for Hong Kong: A Contribution
... values of family and self-reliance, a tight fiscal budget and a competitive global economy), Dr Wong argues that a new approach to social welfare is urgently required. The theoretical base for “reciprocal welfare” is active citizenship and welfare contractualism. The principal tenet of active citize ...
... values of family and self-reliance, a tight fiscal budget and a competitive global economy), Dr Wong argues that a new approach to social welfare is urgently required. The theoretical base for “reciprocal welfare” is active citizenship and welfare contractualism. The principal tenet of active citize ...
Foundation of Sociological Theories
... Having grown up during the aftermath of the French Revolution, Auguste Comte was the first to use the term sociology as a way of studying the world in terms of society. Along with the industrial revolution in England during the 18th century and the rise of urbanisation and mass social change, thinke ...
... Having grown up during the aftermath of the French Revolution, Auguste Comte was the first to use the term sociology as a way of studying the world in terms of society. Along with the industrial revolution in England during the 18th century and the rise of urbanisation and mass social change, thinke ...
Academic Dependency and the Global Division of Labor in the
... The fourth dimension refers to aid dependence. Foreign funds and technical aid originating from governments, educational institutions and foundations in the US, Great Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Japan routinely find their way to scholars and educational institutions in the Third Wo ...
... The fourth dimension refers to aid dependence. Foreign funds and technical aid originating from governments, educational institutions and foundations in the US, Great Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Japan routinely find their way to scholars and educational institutions in the Third Wo ...
SP212 - NUI Galway
... substantially to our understanding of the transition from pre-modern to modern society. For a fuller appreciation of the classical tradition in social theory there is no substitute for a reading of the original writings of Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Simmel. As these writings are very extensive, we wi ...
... substantially to our understanding of the transition from pre-modern to modern society. For a fuller appreciation of the classical tradition in social theory there is no substitute for a reading of the original writings of Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Simmel. As these writings are very extensive, we wi ...
Social Deviance (5000 words) Social deviance is a concept used in
... However, despite the emergence of rationalized institutions of science and law, in late eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe all individuals lived during a time of great socioeconomic disruption. In Britain, the first fully-blown industrial capitalist nation, the countryside was emptying and the ...
... However, despite the emergence of rationalized institutions of science and law, in late eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe all individuals lived during a time of great socioeconomic disruption. In Britain, the first fully-blown industrial capitalist nation, the countryside was emptying and the ...
Social Stratification David B. Grusky Department of Sociology and
... to support more complex and less meritocratic systems of stratification. The “Asiatic mode,” which some commentators regard as a precursor of advanced agrarianism, is characterized by a poorly developed proprietary class and a powerful state elite that extracted surplus agricultural production throu ...
... to support more complex and less meritocratic systems of stratification. The “Asiatic mode,” which some commentators regard as a precursor of advanced agrarianism, is characterized by a poorly developed proprietary class and a powerful state elite that extracted surplus agricultural production throu ...
Performing environmental change
... STS in order to elaborate the claim that nature and society are inextricably entwined: the ‘externality’ of nature to society has been shown to constitute a fiction. This claim is not only an epistemic one but also has political and ethical import: in order to articulate more durable ways for enviro ...
... STS in order to elaborate the claim that nature and society are inextricably entwined: the ‘externality’ of nature to society has been shown to constitute a fiction. This claim is not only an epistemic one but also has political and ethical import: in order to articulate more durable ways for enviro ...
Developing Agent Systems for E
... Methodology: Social Structures at all steps makes sense? Social Structures in Tropos 25 ...
... Methodology: Social Structures at all steps makes sense? Social Structures in Tropos 25 ...
Sociology of finance
... As long as the early principalities had enough resources from their domains, citizens benefited. At the moment when the costs of war exceeded the financial power of the territorial domains, the prince was forced to collect contributions from the citizens – the prince who had granted benefits now put ...
... As long as the early principalities had enough resources from their domains, citizens benefited. At the moment when the costs of war exceeded the financial power of the territorial domains, the prince was forced to collect contributions from the citizens – the prince who had granted benefits now put ...
Power and Politics Unit P1: Basic Concepts
... employee in the workplace. The nature of their political relationship specifies the broad nature of their power relationship. In one sense, this is a political relationship underpinned by some form of coercive power - the employer can make the employee do certain things that may be against his / her ...
... employee in the workplace. The nature of their political relationship specifies the broad nature of their power relationship. In one sense, this is a political relationship underpinned by some form of coercive power - the employer can make the employee do certain things that may be against his / her ...
this PDF file - International Journal of Humanities and
... extensive discussion on concept of alienation. Hegel’s analysis from alienation refers to a systematic and subjective aspect. Hegel assumes alienation as an intellectual reality used it as the concept of human’s alienation from awareness and known exclusion from alienation and arrival to awareness o ...
... extensive discussion on concept of alienation. Hegel’s analysis from alienation refers to a systematic and subjective aspect. Hegel assumes alienation as an intellectual reality used it as the concept of human’s alienation from awareness and known exclusion from alienation and arrival to awareness o ...
A2 Biopolitics - Open Evidence Archive
... Democracy: Some Reflections on Our Discourse About “Modernity,” Central European History, vol. 37, no. 1, 1– ...
... Democracy: Some Reflections on Our Discourse About “Modernity,” Central European History, vol. 37, no. 1, 1– ...
T II SOCIAL PROTECTION IN THE “NEW” ECONOMY
... in a potent package as the “new” economy, bearing both hope and peril for developing economies. This paper examines the impact and implications of the new economy on social security and social welfare protection, highlighting Asian non-welfare States. Workers inevitably bear the burden of adjustment ...
... in a potent package as the “new” economy, bearing both hope and peril for developing economies. This paper examines the impact and implications of the new economy on social security and social welfare protection, highlighting Asian non-welfare States. Workers inevitably bear the burden of adjustment ...