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Undergraduate Bulletin 2010-2012 
    
Undergraduate Bulletin 2010-2012
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SOC 409 - Contemporary Social Theory



A critical examination of social theory from the Chicago school to the present. Consideration will be given to interactionist, ethnomethodological, structuralist, critical, feminist, rational choice, and postmodern perspectives, with special emphasis on the legacy of Robert Merton, C. Wright Mills, and Erving Goffman, as well as Dorothy Smith, Anthony Giddens, and Patricia Hill Collins. (3 hours)

Prerequisite(s): SOC 110  and junior standing, or consent of instructor.



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