SOCI 112 - Introducing Sociology, Science of Modern Life

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3SS, WR

Learn the methods and theories that sociologists use to understand our mass society that emerged out of 19th -century industrial and political revolutions. This young science’s insights will help us understand contemporary controversies around inequality, social change, gender, race and power. This course will familiarize you with the relationship between sociology and other disciplines, techniques for reading original research articles, basic sociological writing skills, and mostly importantly, the social origin of individual thought and action. Enrollment limit: 40.
Instructor: G. Mattson