SOC 201 - Social Imagination GT-SS3

3 Credit(s)

The social world is often taken for granted or reduced to explanations that stem from conventional wisdom and personal experience. This course is designed to encourage students to develop social scientific frameworks for analyzing the social world in a context that transcends conventional wisdom and personal experience. The major question is “what are the social forces, operating in society and often beyond the control of individuals, that shape individual behaviors and societal changes?” Topics include culture, socialization structure, organizational behavior, social groups, deviance, and social instructions (family, religion, education, and political economy).