Graduate Catalog 1994-1995
College of Arts and Science
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
Course Descriptions

SOCI 604  Social Organization: Urban Community  3
   Conditions underlying urban residential patterns and the consequences of
   these patterns for local community activities.

SOCI 605  Data Collection  3
   A survey of methods and techniques for defining research problems and
   for gathering and ordering data in sociological research.
   RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.

SOCI 606  Qualitative Methodology  3
   Focuses on research design, the logic of inquiry and an elaboration of
   selected issues introduced in SOCI605. Special emphasis on
   epistomological issues, methodological concerns central to the social
   sciences and non-positivistic research strategies and techniques.

SOCI 607  Sociology of Sex and Gender  3
   Reviews current research and theory in the sociology of sex roles and
   gender with particular attention to issues arising from the gender
   division of labor, feminism and social change, gender and the structure
   of social institutions, and the interaction of gender, race and class
   inequality. Introduces sociological theory and methodology as used and
   revised by scholars working on gender issues. May be cross-listed with
   WOMS607.

SOCI 609  Social Stratification  3
   Reviews major theoretical and empirical work in social stratification.

SOCI 611  Techniques of Demographic Analysis  3
   Study of demographic equation (fertility, mortality and migration),
   population processes (composition and distribution) and the use of
   computers to analyze demographic data.

SOCI 612  Development of Sociological Theory  3
   Historical survey of the development of sociology and sociological
   theory beginning with the period of the Social Contract theorists
   through the classic European theorists of the 19th century.

SOCI 613  Research and Social Theory  3
   Focuses on the relations between theory and method in social research.

SOCI 614  Data Analysis  3
   Methods of analyzing data in sociological research focusing on
   multivariate approaches.
   PREREQ: SOCI605.

SOCI 621  Theories and Approaches in Social Deviance  3
   General and specific theoretical orientations in the analysis of social
   deviance.

SOCI 622  Collective Behavior  3
   Process and mechanisms operating in panics, riots, demonstrations and
   other disruptions of social order.

SOCI 626  Sociology of Organizations  3
   Cultural context of organizational behavior: organizational input-output
   systems, structures and dynamics. Case studies of industrial,
   educational, medical and voluntary action organizations.

SOCI 627  Theories of Complex Organization  3
   Development of theories of organizations: systems of authority and
   power, communication, reward and penalty; dynamics of conflict and
   accommodation between and within organizations; and problems of
   induction, placement, coordination and succession within organizations.

SOCI 628  Corporate and Governmental Deviance  3
   Analyses and cases of internal organizational behavior when external
   efforts are made to have these behaviors treated as deviant. Also
   defenses used by the accused organizations, and preconditions for, and
   consequences of, successfully labeling and sanctioning an organization
   as deviant.

SOCI 629  Organizational Careers  3
   Relationship between occupational careers and the organizations in which
   they are pursued. Process of recruitment, socialization, placement,
   promotion and succession.

SOCI 650  Political Sociology  3
   Analysis of political organization and action, including evaluation of
   major approaches. Case studies of political structures and behavior.

SOCI 655  Law and Society  3
   Historical and structural development of legal systems. Emphasis on
   comparing legal systems in various cultures from Roman and Oriental law
   to Anglo-American legal systems.

SOCI 661  Racial Stratification  3
   Reviews the concept of race as a social historical category and examines
   the relationship of racial stratification to other systems of
   inequality. Also evaluates sociological theories of racial
   discrimination and institutionalized racism.

SOCI 813  Current Issues in Social Theory  3
   Deals with current controversies in social theory such as the
   public/private distinction, the development of symbolic interactionism
   and Neo-Marxism.
   RESTRICTIONS: Must have completed one graduate-level course.

SOCI 835  Seminar in Criminal and Delinquent Behavior  3

SOCI 836  Seminar in Criminal and Delinquent Behavior  3

SOCI 869  Master's Thesis  1-6

SOCI 875  Proposal Writing  3
   Focuses on all aspects of grant proposal writing and reviewing. Funded
   and disapproved grant applications analyzed and critiqued. Mandatory
   student preparation of a complete grant application to be reviewed on
   campus by sitting members of NIH review committees.
   RESTRICTIONS: Requires 30 hours of graduate study, including 3-6 hours
   of methods courses. Open only to advanced sociology/criminology graduate
   students.

SOCI 964  Pre-Candidacy Study  3-12  PF
   Research and readings in preparation of dissertation topic and/or
   qualifying examinations for doctoral students before admission to
   candidacy but after completion of all required course work.
   RESTRICTIONS: Not open to students who have been admitted to candidacy.

SOCI 969  Doctoral Dissertation  1-12  PF

UNIV 895  Master's Sustaining: Non-Thesis  0  PF

UNIV 899  Master's Sustaining: Thesis  0  PF

UNIV 999  Doctoral Sustaining  0  PF