General Graduate Courses

 

SOCY 601 Statistics For Sociological Research I (3 credits)
Prerequisite: SOCY 201 or equivalent, and permission of instructor or graduate director.. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: SOCY 601 and SURV 601.
Introductory statistical concepts are covered including descriptive statistics, probability, sampling distributions, expected values, hypothesis testing, tests of significance, measures of association, and if time permits, introduction to regression analysis. Statistical programming software may be used.

 

SOCY 602 Statistics For Sociological Research II (3 credits)
Prerequisite: SOCY 601 or equivalent, and permission of instructor or graduate director.. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: SOCY 602 or SURV 602.
This course introduces regression analysis using matrix algebra. Topics include bivariate regression, multivariate regression, tests of significance, regression diagnostics, indicator variables, interaction terms, extra sum of squares, and the general linear model. Other topics may be addressed such as logistic regression and path analysis. Statistical programming software may be used.

 

SOCY 604 Survey Research Methods (3 credits)
Prerequisite: SOCY 602 or equivalent or permission of department.
The design, collection, and analysis of data using the method of the social survey. Comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of the survey method with those of other methods of social inquiry. Control over the major sources of survey variation: survey mode, sampling, questionnaire format, question wording, interviewing and coding. Measurement and multivariate analysis alternatives.

 

SOCY 611 Demographic Techniques (3 credits)
Basic as well as advanced techniques for analyzing population structure and demographic processes, including fertility, mortality and migration

 

SOCY 620 Development of European and American Sociological Theory (3 credits)
Prerequisite: SOCY 203 or SOCY 403 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
Review of the history of sociological thought with major attention to the key figures (from Marx to C. Wright Mills).

 

SOCY 621 Contemporary Sociological Theory (3 credits)
Prerequisite: SOCY 203 or SOCY 403 and/or SOCY 620 permission of instructor.
Review of sociological theory since approximately 1970, with emphasis given to schools of thought (from symbolic interaction to post- modernism) and principle participants in them (from Goffman to Baudrilliard).

 

SOCY 622 The Sociology of Knowledge (3 credits)
Analysis of the relation of types of knowledge to social structure. Role of social class and social organization in the development of science, political ideology, belief systems and social values. Social roles associated with production of knowledge.

 

SOCY 624 Lives and Times: Socialization Across the Life Course (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
The life course as a theoretical perspective, a methodology, and a field of study, with focus on the intersection of human development and changing societies; development of individual life course trajectories: the life course and institutional contexts; using a life course lens to examine various substantive topics.

 

SOCY 626: Demography of Aging (3 credits)

 

SOCY 627: Migration (3 credits)

 

SOCY 630 Population and Society (3 credits)
Selected problems in the field of population; quantitative and qualitative aspects; American and world problems.

 

SOCY 631 Comparative Sociology (3 credits)
Cross-national analysis of selected social institutions.

 

SOCY 632 Personality and Social Structure (3 credits)
Comparative analysis of the development of human nature, personality, and social traits in select social structures.

 

SOCY 634 Attitudes and Public Opinion (3 credits)
Processes involved in the formation of attitudes; effects of communication; measurement techniques.

 

SOCY 635 Social Aspects of Fertility (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Demographic and socioeconomic aspects of fertility behavior; causes and consequences of fertility decline; relationship between women's status and fertility; determinants of adolescent and non-marital fertility; differential fertility by race/ethnicity and migration status

 

SOCY 636 Population and Development (3 credits)
Prerequisite: Population issues as linked to social and economic change; primary focus on developing nations and regions.

 

SOCY 637 Demography Of The Labor Force (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Demographic trends as related to the composition of the U.S. labor force and trends in income; employment status of immigrants, women, and minorities; relationship between skills and jobs; types of data available for study of the labor force.

 

SOCY 640 Population Policy in Social Context (3 credits)
 

SOCY 641 Work and Family Policy (3 credits)
Prerequisite: At least one graduate course in demography, the family, or policy analysis, or permission of instructor..
Examination of implicit and explicit population policies and family policies from an international and historical perspective; relationships among family issues, gender relations and ideology in the science-policy nexus.

 

SOCY 642 The Sociology of Mental Health (3 credits)
Social factors that influence mental health. Group dynamics of mental health preservation.

 

SOCY 644 Gender, Work, and Family (3 credits)
The interrelationships among gender, work, and family in contemporary societies. Major research issues addressed from an interdisciplinary and comparative (international) perspective.

 

SOCY 645 Sociology of the Self Concept (3 credits)
Theory and empirical research dealing with the social determination and social consequences of the self-concept. Sociological, psychological, and psychoanalytic approaches to the self.

 

SOCY 647 Interpersonal Behavior and Small Groups (3 credits)
Theory and empirical research on small group structure and processes and interpersonal behavior. Social influence, interpersonal attraction. Cohesiveness, power and prestige structures, role differentiation, coalition formation. Laboratory and field methods of investigation.

 

SOCY 651 Gender and Development (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Implications of recent global economic and political transformations for the lives of Third World women and for gender relations; intersection between feminist theory and development theory.

 

SOCY 652 Diversity In The Military (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Cross-national analysis of past, present, and future trends in women's roles in the military and associated policy issues. Effects on women's roles in armed forces of cultural forces, national security, technological change, demographical patterns, occupational structures, labor shortages, and considerations of efficiency and rationality. Interpersonal dynamics of gender relations in the military.

 

SOCY 653 Family Demography (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Demographic perspective on family and household relationships; relationships among economic institutions, family structure, and the content of family life; research from contemporary U.S., historical and cross-cultural sources.

 

SOCY 654 Military Families (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Relationship between work organization and the family in the armed forces; theoretical approaches to the study of work and family; research on military family life style; demographic profiles of military families; organizational demands and their effects on service members and families; family policy in the military.

 

SOCY 660 Theories of Social Psychology (3 credits)
Prerequisite: undergraduate training in sociological research methods, statistics, and theory or equivalent.
An introduction to some of the theories in social psychology that are particularly useful to sociologists. Topics to be covered include theories of cognitive consistency, social exchange, symbolic interaction, role theory, group processes, and collective behavior.

 

SOCY 661 Social Stratification (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Major theoretical and research problems in the sociology of social stratification. The characteristics, correlates, and consequences of class and status stratification; the distribution of power; the relationship of social stratification to ideology and the institutional orders of society.

 

SOCY 664 Armed Forces and Society (3 credits)
Analysis of the relationship between military organization and modern industrial society. Growth and decline of the mass army, the transition from conscription to all-volunteer forces, the social legitimacy of military organization, the military as a form of industrial organization, and problems of civil-military relations in the modern world.

 

SOCY 665 Gender Stratification (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Feminist and other revisionist theory, methodology, and research on the social construction of gender and sexuality and the social stratification of groups assigned to these categories, and their interaction with race, class, and other dimensions of stratification.

 

SOCY 666: Poverty and Social Welfare

 

SOCY 671 Sociology of Development (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Third World development at institutional, organizational, and community levels; factors contributing to success, effectiveness and sustainability of development and to problems and hindrances.

 

SOCY 682 Race, Gender and Class: Theory and Research (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Theory and research on the ways in which class position, race, and gender function simultaneously to produce outcomes in the lives of individuals and in society; historical development and current patterns in the United States, in developing countries and in the global economy.

 

SOCY 699 Special Social Problems (1-16 credits)

• 699C: Introduction to Computing for Social Science Research

• 699X: Capitalism and Democracy

• 699X: Sociology of Consumption

• 699X: Resistance, Revolutions. and Nationalism in Comparative Perspective

• 699X: Methods of Comparative and Historical Analysis

• 699X: States, Politics, and Social Change

• 699X: Theories of Globalization

• 699X: Race, Gender, and Nationalism

• 699X: War, the State, and Society

• 699X: Power, Status, and Leadership in Groups

• 699X: Schooling and Inequality

• 699X: Income Inequality

• 699D: Sociology and the New Economy

• 699X: Feminist Theories

• 699X: Major Theories and Theorists

• 699X: Postmodern Theory

SOCY 701 Issues in the Integration of Theory and Method (3 credits)
Prerequisite: Advanced status in the sociology Ph.D. program, or permission of instructor.
The course is intended solely for advanced doctoral sociology students. The main objective of the course is to develop a dissertation proposal. Consequently, this course may only be taken during or after the semester in which the student completes the specialty (comprehensive) exams.

 

SOCY 709 Advanced Special Topics in Data Analysis (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit with permission of instructor.
An intensive examination of an area of interest in data analysis, including such topics as log linear analysis; discriminant function analysis; canonical correlation; factor analysis; analysis of qualitative data; content analysis; mathematical models.

 

SOCY 729 Advanced Special Topics in Substantive Theory (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit with permission of instructor. 

 

SOCY 799 Master's Thesis Research (1-6 credits)

SOCY 819 Research Seminar in Social Psychology (1 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit with permission of instructor.
An advanced research seminar for students preparing to do research or take comprehensive examinations in social psychology.

 

SOCY 829 Research Seminar in Sociological Theory (1 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit with permission of instructor.
An advanced research seminar for students preparing to do research or take comprehensive examinations in sociological theory.

 

SOCY 849 Research Seminar in Demography (1 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Repeatable to 6 credits.
An advanced research seminar for students preparing to do research or take comprehensive examinations in demography.

 

SOCY 858 Research Seminar in Gender, Work, and Family (1 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Repeatable to 6 credits.
An advanced research seminar for students preparing to do research or take comprehensive examinations in sex roles.

 

SOCY 869 Research Seminar in Military Sociology (1 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Repeatable to 6 credits.
An advanced research seminar for students preparing to do research or take comprehensive examinations in military sociology.

 

SOCY 889 Research Seminar in Social Stratification (1 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Repeatable to 6 credits.
An advanced research seminar for students preparing to do research or take comprehensive examinations in stratification.

 

SOCY 899 Doctoral Dissertation Research (1-8 credits)