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Undergraduate Bulletin 2010-2012 
    
Undergraduate Bulletin 2010-2012
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CAS 240 - Self and Society



An examination of the social science paradigms that address how human action and human actors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. This course emphasizes the social construction of self and the social context of everyday behavior in terms of class, race, ethnicity, gender, and age and will address the following themes: the development of the social self, socialization and identity, attitude formation and change, prejudice, conformity, and the determinants of attraction. (3 hours)

Listed also as SOC 240 .

This course will satisfy the social science core area requirement.



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