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SOC 40800 - Inequality And The Individual Experience |
Credit Hours: 3.00. The course will examine how structural inequalities such as those related to race, class, and gender are created and reproduced and sometimes challenged through social interaction. Students will learn to apply social psychology to combat contemporary social inequalities in diverse settings such as education, family, government, and the workplace. Typically offered Fall Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture Offered By: Regional Campus Only Course Attributes: Upper Division May be offered at any of the following campuses: Northwest- Westville Northwest- Hammond Learning Outcomes: 1. Have developed a further understanding of basic concepts within social psychology and stratification. 2. Have examined how social inequality is reproduced through interaction. 3. Have examined how beliefs about categories of people based on characteristics such as disability, sexual orientation, age, as well as race, class and gender people are internalized and confirmed through selective perceptions. 4. Have explored how interaction can also challenge and alter beliefs about categories of people. 5. Have learned to utilize social psychological research and theory to overcome existing patterns of inequality. Prerequisites: Undergraduate level SOC 10000 Minimum Grade of D- |
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