CUNY Stella and Charles Guttman Community College · Courses
SOSC
3 courses with the subject SOSC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
SOSC 110(, Hours: 3)3
Foundations in the Social Sciences This course introduces students to the major issues and assumptions common to the social sciences: Anthropology, Economics, Psychology, and Sociology. The class will focus on how these disciplines understand and analyze human behavior. Through a preliminary inquiry into how scholars and researchers examine the institution of the family, students will become familiar with the questions social scientists ask and the research methods each discipline uses to answer these questions. Pre/Co-requisites: None
Social Theory at Work Satisfies the CUNY Pathways flexible common core in Individual and Society. Social Theory at Work introduces students to a range of theories on working, participation in the economy, and the reproduction of power and privilege in the labor market. Students read theoretical texts from across the social sciences, engaging with critical concepts such as labor alienation, social reproduction, and class conflict to help them analyze the functions of the contemporary workplace as well as broader systems for the production of wealth and the reproduction of inequality. These theoretical perspectives are then applied to narrative accounts of participation in the workforce, illuminating cultural, social, social psychological, structural, and economic aspects of work through a critical lens. Students will also discover and manipulate quantitative data on occupations and employment trends to explore divisions in the labor market and examine the effects of unionization, privatization, and legislative interventions into workplace law.
