6 courses with the subject SOCI, 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.
CR: 3.0 An analysis of theory and empirical research on crime and delinquency, primarily from a sociological perspective. Topics include comparisons of trends in crime and delinquency, social and economic inequalities related to crime and delinquency, mass incarceration, media portrayals of crime and criminals, the war on drugs, hard reduction, and cybercrime.
CR: 3.0 The study of social inequality focuses on intersections of unequal individual statuses with unequal institutions. This empirical analysis of structural social and economic inequalities pursues answers to these questions: How are distribution of income and wealth changing in the U.S. and the world? What are the causes and results of inequality? To what extent is an individual’s education, occupation, or income independent of one’s socioeconomic origins, gender, race, ethnicity, or age? How do cultural, social, and economic capital account for social mobility during one’s own lifetime or across generations? Are increases in inequality inevitable? How do people understand social classes and trends in social inequality? In what ways are social classes related to how people spend their time and money? How are class-specific life styles changing in relation to consumption of goods and services?
CR: 3 Non-medical factors explain much of the variation and mitigation in prevalence of infectious diseases like COVID- 19, non-communicable diseases like lung cancer, and injuries from accidents and violence, as well as their diagnosis and treatment. The public health perspective of medical sociology emphasizes prevention. The epidemiologic research method of medical sociology permits discovery of sociodemographic factors associated with diseases in populations characterized by disparities related to race/ ethnicity, sex/gender, age, education, occupation, income, and wealth. Topics include socially patterned differences in mortality and morbidity, increasing medicalization of conditions, over-diagnosis and over-treatment, failures to implement evidence-based treatments, end-of-life interventions, and comparisons of profit with not-for-profit health care delivery systems in the U.S. and other countries.
Source: Sweet Briar College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
