Structures of Opportunity and Inequality
What is the balance of individual self-determination and institutionalized constraint in shaping people’s lives? Social institutions such as the educational system and the economy sort people and distribute rewards, but their workings are profoundly shaped by persistent inequalities of class, ethnicity, gender, age, race and nationality. How and why do such inequalities persist? How might opportunities be more fairly distributed? What sorts of individual and collective action affect existing structures of constraint?
Basic Courses:
SOCI 2 Social Problems and Public Policy
SOCI 5 American Society
SOCI 6 Race and Ethnic Relations
SOCI 10 Social Stratification
SOCI 11 Urban Sociology
SOCI 12 Globalization
SOCI 27 Introduction to Africana Studies
SOCI 103 Asian Americans in Contemporary Society
SOCI 112 Discrimination: Sexual and Racial Conflict
SOCI 117 Sociology of Work
SOCI 122 Sociology of Gender
SOCI 152 American Health Policy
SOCI 200 Criminal Justice
SOCI 233 Criminology
SOCI 235 Law & Social Change
SOCI 254 Cities, Suburbs, and Their Regions
SOCI 259 Social Determinants of Health
SOCI 264 Poverty, Race and Health
SOCI 266 Latinos in United States
SOCI 270 Ethnicity- Globalizing Philadelphia: The Immigrant City
SOCI 307 Race, Science and Justice
SOCI 420 Perspectives on Urban Poverty
SOCI 425 Women and Political Activism
SOCI 435 Globalization and Comparative Urban Development
SOCI 437 Cultural Models and Health
SOCI 453 Metro Growth and Poverty
SOCI 460 Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois
SOCI 473 Community Organizing: History and Theory
Advanced Courses:
SOCI 514 Medicine and the Body
SOCI 515 Family Research Workshop
SOCI 517 Work and Identity
SOCI 541 Gender, The Labor Force and Markets
SOCI 542 Work and Gender
SOCI 546 Feminist Theory
SOCI 550 Social Inequality
SOCI 566 Sociology of Professions
SOCI 577 Professions and Society
SOCI 581 Political Sociology
SOCI 591 Racial Justice and the Sociology of the Law
SOCI 596 Sociology of Education
SOCI 643 Social Stratification
SOCI 660 Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois
SOCI 670 Family Data
SOCI 680 Pro-Seminar in Criminology
SOCI 681 Pro-Seminar in Criminal Justice
SOCI 702 Political Economy and Social History of Africa and the African Diaspora
SOCI 796 Demography, Economics and Social Relations
SOCI 836 Culture, Communication, Rights: Inter-Asian Translations