SOCI

This course provides students with an introduction to an understanding of man and his society. It explores the process of socialization, families, marital, educational, religious, political, and economic institutions.

Pre-Requisite - Senior Standing

Days and Times: Tuesday & Thursday 10:00 - 11:15

This course focuses on the basic concepts, dimensions, issues, and ideas in the area of marriages, families, and intimate relationships in various societies. Tools for an ongoing process of observation, understanding, and analysis of intimate relationships, marital, and family systems, and organizations are included.

This course is designed to give students an overview of the study of sociological theory so that they can better understand the social world. By analyzing a variety of theories, it is hoped that students will develop a theoretical perspective about social reality and a critical orientation toward sociological theory. Students will discuss the works and ideas of some early enlightenment thinkers (Auguste Comte, Saint Simon, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx Weber, and George Herbert Mead). Emphasis will be placed on some major themes such as modernity, nationalism, industrialization, social order, and the process of human interaction.

Pre-requisite(s): SOCI:201 

Pre-requisite(s):             SOCI 302 – Social Theory  

The course familiarizes students with units of analysis, theoretical approaches, and field engagement and main concepts to explain the reality of deviance in the Caribbean.