The Sociology of Culture
The sociology of culture investigates an aspect of human life that is central to its definition, the origins and development of meaning - religious, moral, normative, esthetic, cognitive - and how they are expressed in and serve to shape human conduct. Processes of cultural innovation as well as cultural stability are examined in various social institutions and settings of American as well as Middle Eastern, European, and Asian societies.
Basic Courses:
SOCI 3 Deviance and Social Control
SOCI 5 American Society
SOCI 12 Globalization
SOCI 27 Introduction to Africana Studies
SOCI 33 Technology and Society
SOCI 101 Bioethics
SOCI 103 Asian Americans in Contemporary Society
SOCI 118 Sociology of Bioethics
SOCI 122 Sociology of Gender
SOCI 125 Classical Sociological Theory
SOCI 126 Contemporary Sociological Theory
SOCI 137 Sociology of Media and Popular Culture
SOCI 161 The Information Age
SOCI 239 Sociology of Religion
SOCI 250 Minorities and Media
SOCI 260 Cyberculture
SOCI 270 Ethnicity- Globalizing Philadelphia: The Immigrant City
SOCI 277 Insane, Irrational, or Ill: The Sociology of Mental Illness
Advanced Courses:
SOCI 517 Work and Identity
SOCI 546 Feminist Theory
SOCI 559 Theories of Religious Behavior
SOCI 561 Sociology of Culture: Art Knowledge, Religion and Science
SOCI 568 Audience Ethnography: From Response to Media Practices
SOCI 569 Media, Democracy, and Civic Participation
SOCI 595 Media, Culture and Society
SOCI 629 Sociology of Mass Communication
SOCI 667 Social Interaction
SOCI 702 Political Economy and Social History of Africa and the African Diaspora
SOCI 803 Shaping Communications Policy in the Obama Administration: A Study in Neo-Institutionalism
SOCI 820 Media, Culture and Citizenship
SOCI 829 Nonprofits, Media and the Arts
SOCI 836 Culture, Communication, Rights: Inter-Asian Translations
SOCI 896 Journalism, Entertainment and Society