Sociology is a social science that studies human societies, their interactions,
and the processes
that preserve
and change them It examines social conflict and cooperation, and the organization
of families, communities, workplaces, and nations. The program at UCI covers
the breadth of the discipline while giving students opportunities to conduct
independent research, to do an internship in the community, to participate
in an Honors Program, and to take advantage of departmental opportunities
in such areas as human services, diversity, international sociology, and
business, economy, and society. All students take basic courses on social
institutions, theory, and methods. Students then take more specialized
courses such as Race and Ethnicity, Social Psychology, Sociology of Gender,
or Chinese Society. Courses are enriched by ongoing faculty research on
such topics as the work and family of immigrants to the U.S., economic
change in Asia, the relation between women and men in different social
classes and ethnic groups, and attitudes to sexual behavior.
UCI Departmental Requirements for Sociology Major:
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Sociology 1 and either 2 or 3.
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Five courses selected from the following list of
core courses, no more than two of which may be lower-division: Sociology
31, 41, 43, 44, 56, 62, 63, 135, 141, 144, 145, 156, 161, 164, 173, 174,
175B.
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One additional upper-division Sociology course and
one additional introductory course from another social science discipline.
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One course in methods (Sociology 110) and one course
in theory selected from Sociology 120-129.
One course in research design and implementation
(Sociology 180A; required for all majors). The second course in the sequence
(Sociology 180B) is for students who pass the first course and wish to
write a thesis.
Courses:
Description:
Research:
| Sociology 62 Marriage and Families: |
Emphasis on comparing family patterns in different
social classes, ethnic groups, and societies, and on relating family life
to the economy and other social institutions. Topics include gender roles,
child-rearing, historical change. |
Research: marriage & family (divore,children, family income) |
| Sociology 173: |
Sources, functions, and dynamics of the unequal
distribution of wealth, prestige, knowledge, and power in American and
other societies. |
Research: power ellite in American society, and how it affects our
social classs. |
| Sociology 2: |
Major concepts and approaches to the study of
society: social interaction, social differentiation, social control, social
change, social institutions. |
Research: economic/ political globalzation |
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