Societies regulate their members’ behavior through a variety of formal and informal means of social control. This concentration examines such questions as: what forms of social control are considered legitimate? What groups are able to exercise such control? Which individuals or groups are socially defined as deviant, and what are the results of such judgments? Under what circumstance is deviance treated as criminal?

Basic Courses:
SOC 2 Social Problems and Public Policy
SOC 3 Deviance and Social Control
SOC 5 American Society
SOC 6 Race and Ethnic Relations
SOC 8 Political Sociology
SOC 104 Sociology of Sex: Comparative Approach
SOC 112 Discrimination: Sexual and Racial Conflict
SOC 118 Sociology of Bioethics
SOC 122 Sociology of Gender
SOC 135 Law and Society
SOC 140 Social Conflict
SOC 233 Criminology
SOC 273 Law, Medicine and Public Policy

Advanced Courses:
SOC 522 Sociology of Law
SOC 530 Social Movement and Social Change
SOC 530 Critical Race Theory
SOC 531 Law, Medicine and Public Policy
SOC 566 Sociology of Professions
SOC 581 Political Sociology
SOC 591 Racial Justice and the Sociology of the Law

Last Modified: 07-Nov-2003
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