SOC 303Crises in Social Structure and Character
- Faculty
- Arts
- Last listed
- 1977–78
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1973–74 to 1977–78; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
This course proposes a frame of reference for the systematic study of human predicaments, ranging in scope from illness and dying to natural disasters and socially induced calamities like forced migration, total war, and genocide.
As printed in the 1975–76 to 1977–78 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Requirements, as last listed
Prerequisite: Sociology 101*. 2 hours, Fall term
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1973–74 to 1977–78, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1975–76 to 1977–78 3 calendars
This course proposes a frame of reference for the systematic study of human predicaments, ranging in scope from illness and dying to natural disasters and socially induced calamities like forced migration, total war, and genocide.
Prerequisite: Sociology 101*. 2 hours, Fall term
1973–74 to 1974–75 2 calendars
The effect of drastic change on social structures and on modal as well as deviant personality types. A series of sociological studies of disasters suggests systematic ways of thinking about catastrophic circumstances and their effects on social systems and related patterns of human identity. Prerequisite: Soc. 101* and permission of the instructor 2 hours, Fall term