88 courses in the 1985–86 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
An examination of the fundamental concepts of Sociology and their appli- - cation in seeking to understand the changing patterns and life-styles taking place specifically in Canada, and in general, within North American society. Students may receive credit for only one of SOC 120R or SOC 101
The deviance-making process is examined in a variety of social contexts. ~ Examines the emergence of rules and control agencies, the processes by which persons become involved in deviant activities, and the contingencies affecting persons’ careers as deviants. Prereq: An introductory Sociology course or consent of instructor
Examination of the social adaptations of the physically disabled. Particular attention is given to the theoretical tradition which considers physical disability as a form of involuntary deviance which stigmatizes the individual.
Prereq: An introductory Sociology course i
Spoiled identity resulting from deviant status inhibits if not prevents acceptance and social mobility. Consequences of spoiled identity, lowered status positions and deviant criminal and “social” adaptations are examined from a symbolic interactionist perspective. Prereq: An introductory Sociology course.
“Total institutions” are concerned with resocialization of “inmates”. The philosophies, organization, goals and effectiveness in modifying and controlling behaviour, of maximum security prisons, mental hospitals, isolated work environments and concentration camps constitute the central focus.
Prereq: An introductory Sociology course
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SOC 396R/399R S.FW R 050.5 Independent Study An independent in-depth study of a selected area of concern to the student within the discipline of Sociology. Avaitable to individuals or small groups of third or fourth year Social Development Studies majors and arranged with one of the faculty members from the program.
Prereq: Permission of Undergraduate Officer
Not offered in 1985–86.
Not offered in 1985–86.
Not offered in 1985–86.
Not offered in 1985–86.
An introduction to the basic concepts and frames of reference’ of sociological investigation and interpretation. Topics for analysis will include communities, associations and institutions, classes and status groups, crowds and publics, social processes, and social change. | Special attention is given to Canadian society.
Not open to students who have taken
Listed without a description.
An examination of cultural forces that create social problems and failures in personal and institutional adjustments. Specific attention is paid to the problems of poverty, delinquency and ethnic relations in Canadian society.
A survey of sociological perspectives on marriage and the family in urbanindustrial societies. Special attention is given to marriage and the family in Canada. Comparisons with U.S and Britain will be undertaken.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
SOC: 204 FW 2C 05 Sociology of Adol The social definitions of adolescence in cross-cultural and historical perspective. Social roles of adolescents in the institutional structures of urban-industrial societies with special emphasis on the famity, education, and the economy. The relationship of adolescents’ social roies to processes of social change and stability.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
Course Descriptions Sociology
~ An examination of male and female
roles in contemporary Canadian society Current and past roles of both sexes in different societies are considered. Seleced topics of interest include sex role identity and its development, male role change, media images of men and women and men’s and women’s liberation.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
Attention will be focused on the concepts and theories of sociology as they apply especially to the educational system. This course is designed for Co-op and Regular students who plan to énter the teaching field.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
An examination of some of the limitations and alternatives to formal schooling employed mainly by Canadian and Australian indigenous groups (indian, Inuit, and other aboriginal groups). Special emphasis is placed on skill training and the graup's search for identity.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College
This course focuses on the intersection of biography and social structure within the family. Application of sociological
_ theory and methods to students’ own
family backgrounds will be used to illustrate the social bases of identity. Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
Analysis of social classes in society
including their basis for development.
composition and consequences for
society. Special attention is given to
social stratification in Canada. Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of
instructor
SOC 221 20 06
Canadian Society
An introductory survey of Canadian
society. This course will examine issues
in the socio-historical development of
Canadian society. Its present social
structure, organizations and ideologies. Formerly SOC 103
Course Descriptions - Saolology
A systematic analysis and criticism is presented of biological, psychological, psychoanalytical and sociological theoties of juvenile delinquency. Attention is given to statistics and contemporary research with special emphasis on the distribution and types of delinquent subcultures.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
The deviance-making process is examined in a variety of social contexts. Examines the emergence of rules and control agencies, the processes by which people become involved in deviant activities, and the contingencies affecting their careers as deviants. Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor Also offered at Renison College.
Focusing on the “processes and problematics of social control’, this course examines: the conditions affecting the emergence of legal norms; the enforcement of criminal law; and the processing of offenders.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
An analysis of minority religions considered deviant by the dominant society such as the Amish, Mormons, and Jehovah's. Witnesses, with special consideration of the recent new religious mavements including Unification (Moonies), Scientology and Krishna consciousness.
Cross-listed as AS 221.
Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
An analysis and criticism of the major theories of criminal behaviour. Emphasis is given to the relationship between social structure and criminal behaviour; types of criminal behaviour such as drug addiction, burglary and homicide in contemporary society. Special attention is given to Canadian data.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
Decisions to process offenders and the -
role of social factors in the Canadian criminal justice system are critically examined. Focal issues include police discretion, the legal profession and prison systems.
Prereq: SOC 101
Attitudes
Examines the sources, organization and
distribution. of beliefs and attitudes and
their significance for the individual and
society. . . Prereq: SOC 101 or PSYCH 101 or
consent of instructor
Introducing students to symbolic interaction, a sociological social psychology, this course examines: the impact of cuiture on socialization experiences; the development of self-identities and social reputations; and interaction patterns in a variety of casual, occupational and deviance contexts.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
Formerly SOC 104
An analysis of the role of language and other symbol systems in social interaction; the interplay between communication and the social system, the formation of attitudes through language; social and individual disorders as caused by, and reflected in, the breakdown in the communication process.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
The analysis of varieties of social movements and their relationships to social organization and social change.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
The sociological analysis of the behaviour of crowds, mobs, publics and related phenomena and their relationships to social organization and social change.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
Formerly SOC 106
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This course considers the (social) processes by which people "do business’: Focusing on day to day exchanges, ongoing relationships within the business and consumer community are examined from an interactionist perspective.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of the instructor.
Special emphasis is given in lectures.
reading and assignments to the partic-
ular problems facing industrial Canada.
especially in reference to regionalism.
elitism, the multinational enterprise and-
the probiem of foreign ownership. Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of
instructor
An introduction to the study of work and occupationg; the problems of occupa: tional choice, occupational socialization and identification; the concepts of career and career mobility; the professionalization process, the nature of professions, the impact of occupation on life styles, leisure and retirement. Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
The course deals with the current literature on death and dying: also, with the sociological implications of institutional housing of terminal patients. Patterns of mortality as affecting different social groups and as reflecting differential life chances of individuals in society are described. North American issues of death and dying are considered against an historical background.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
This course focuses on the social
aspects of health and iliness, including
social causes of illness, the social
process of becoming ill, and the social
consequences of being defined as ill. Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of
instructor
An exarnination of sociological research and theory in the field of mental illness, especially as it relates to the family. Such topics as psychiatric hospitals, public attitudes and social stigma, aftercare and rehabilitation, and the epidemiology of mental illness will be examined.
Prereq: SOC 101 or permission of the instructor
Offered at St. Jerome's College.
An overview of international migration, particularly during this century; a survey of statistical sources and theoretical explanations of migration. A section of the course will be on the history of immigration to Canada, migration within Canada, and Canadian immigration policies in the context of world migration. Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
Study of the basic demographic processes in the population of Canada. Demographic implications for selected social institutions. Use of Canadian enumeration and registration data. Emphasis on immigration and immigration policy. Prereq: SOC 101 or consent oF instructor
An analysis of issues of social and economic development in selected areas of the Third World, including Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
Relations between different racial and cultural groups, analysis of majority-
minority group status with special refer- *. ence to Canada. ’
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor . Also offered at St. Jerome's College
Religion is defined broadly and its rela-
- tion to phenomena like totalitarian
movements, psychoanalysis and drug experience examined. The features common to all religions are explained, viz myth, dogma, church, ritual, ethics and religious experience.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
The sociological analysis of the institutionalization of power, political movements, parties, conflict and its accommodation.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
How have recent demographic and economic changes in North America affected the organization and goals of higher learning? This course explores organizational crises and various attempts at containing and managing them.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of
‘instructor
An examination of the object and function of sociological theory in social
research. Types of sociological theories.
Discussion of selected classics of sociological theory.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor.
A first course in sociological statistics, sampling, central tendency, probability, covariance, as illustrated in specifically sociological data.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
See overlapping content note (Grading Systems, item 6) on page 8.7
An introductory survey of the research techniques employed by sociologists. The formulation of research designs appropriate to various kinds of intellectual problems in social science is stressed.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor.
Course Descriptions
Methods 2 ; Continuation of Methods 1. The course involves seminar meetings emphasizing the critical evaluation of research techniques.
Prereq: SOC 281 or consent of instructor.
Education A study of problems arising from the interplay between institutionalized education and the forces of rapid social. change in the contemporary society. It emphasizes the changing roles of the learners and instructors and social dimensions of newer leaming theories and programs. Themes will be selected and studied in depth on a seminar basis.
Prereq: SOC 101 and 207
Offered at Conrad Grebe! College.
An analysis of naturally occurring and experimental groups from a social structural perspective. The study of processes of internal differentiation, integration, authority, etc; and the relationships between small groups and their environments.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
A study of, and sensitization for possible careers in, Third-World development and modernization with special emphasis on poverty issues, minority group problems and the roles of governmental and voluntary agencies.
Prereq: SOC 255 or permission of the instructor
Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
Examines the inter-relatedness of crime and business, looking not only at the extent to which (1) crime represents business for its practitioners and (2) the criminai activities of legitimate business people, but also (3) the agencies regulating crime.
Prereq: SOC 101 and 1 Sociology course in the 220 series
Sociology
A seminar dealing with multicultural atti-
tudes and beliefs in Canadian society.
especially within the majority English
and French Canadian populations. Prereq: An introductory course in a
Social Science
An examination of the distinctive nature of professions: professional recruitment, socialization and identification; professional careers; the professionalization of occupations; relationship to goverment; professional specialization; status, power and mobility of professionals.
Prereq: SOC 101
Examines the role of large-scale organizations in industrial society, and their impact and influence. Ilustrations will be drawn from commerce and industry, as well as education, health services, and government.
SOC M2 2 05 Sociology of Industrial Retations Using sociological concepts and theoties, the course will examine the nature of the relationship between employers and employees, current issues facing unions and management, and the character of accommodation which may be realized between the two.
Examination of the organizations which Provide health care, including assumptions under which they operate, interactive roles played by all members, including patients, alternative arrangements for providing health care, and the social positions held by health professionals.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
An introduction to individual and population aging. Topics discussed include: aging from an historical and comparative perspective; aging in subcultures; aging and the social structure; aging and social processes; aging and the environment; work and retirement; and aging and leisure patterns.
Prereq: SOC 101 and 1 other Soci ology course
Cross-listed as KIN 352.
SOC M7 3C 05 Sociology of Leisure Nature and extent of leisure phenomena in contemporary society. Examination of institutional and formal organization aspects, social role, social research strategies employed in the study of leisure. Prereq: 2 term courses in sociology Cross-listed as REC 301.
An introduction to the sociology of sport. Utilizing the major frames of - teference of the social sciences, the function of sport in contemporary society is examined. Prereq: SOC 101 and 1 other Soci Cross-listed as REC 203 and KIN 252.
SOC 34 2C 05 World Population Problems Comparative analysis of population
‘problems across societies. Focus is on
social institutions and their relationships to population. Emphasis on fertility and family planning.
A systematic review and analysis of sources, patterns, processes, and consequences of social change in developing countries, the role of ideas, and the breakdown and reorganization of social structure.
Prereq: SOC 101 and 1 other Soc? ology course
Also offered at St. Jerome's College
The comparative study of urbanization as a process; the culture and organization of cities, urban problems; special attention is given to industrial cities of Canada, with comparative reference to
.the principal cities of Western societies.
Prereq: SOC 101 and 1 other Soc? ology course
Special attention will be paid to the growing public awareness of the failure of law to provide justice or social control in a number of situations. Local judges, lawyers and police officials are invited to discuss such issues as the jury system, police and violence, civil rights and mass media.
Prereq: Third year standing or by permission
Offered at Conrad Grebe! College.
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Problems about the fundamental methods and aims of the social sciences generally, the problems specific to Psychology, Sociology, Political Science, etc., and their relations to one another will be considered. . Prereq: Some previous work in a Social Science or in Philosophy Cross-listed as PHIL 362.
This seminar will devote attention to research methods, sociological theory and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Mennonite communities and culture. Prereq: Permission of the instructor Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
An application of symbolic interactionist theory, this course examines the contingencies affecting data collection and analysis of on-going group life. While doing field work, students have an opportunity to examine basic features of interactionist thought.
Prereq: SOC 101
Design and data analysis in contempo-
rary sociological research, with an
emphasis on the analysis of secondary
Development of sociological theory in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Emphasis is on the European tradition, although selective attention is given to North American theorists.
Prereq: SOC 101 and 1 other Soct ology course (SOC 271 is recom mended)
Development of sociological theory in the 20th century. Included is discussion of current theoretical work.
Prereq: SOC 101 and 1 other Soci ology course (SOC 271 is reconr mended)
Selected readings and essay assignments under the direction of a faculty member. '
Prereq: Fourth year standing in Soci ology
Criminology, and Corrections.
Paychology.
SOC 440) SFW 05 Directed Readings in the Marketplace
SOC 440V-S,F.W 05 Directed Readings in Sex Roles
Honours students in their fourth year. For students electing Honours Sociology (Canadian Studies), the essay should bear on some topic of particular sociological significance for Canadian society. Prereq: Fourth year Sociology Honours A letter grade for SOC 499A will be submitted only after the completion of SOC 499B
Sociology courses offered at Renison College are listed in the Social Development Studies section.
Not offered in 1985–86.
Not offered in 1985–86.
Not offered in 1985–86.
Not offered in 1985–86.
Not offered in 1985–86.
Not offered in 1985–86.
Not offered in 1985–86.
Not offered in 1985–86.
Not offered in 1985–86.
Not offered in 1985–86.