Urban Sociology
Neighborhoods, cities, and metropolitan areas are communities defined by geographic, economic, legal, political, cultural, and social boundaries. The characteristics distinguishing urban areas that affect social interactions include density of concentration of residents and firms-relative homogeneity in ethnicity, class, education, language and income of neighbors; shared representations, such as sports teams; common meeting places and facilities, such as churches, schools, clubs, restaurant businesses; and facilities of communication and transportation. How does the configuration of urban areas affect opportunities for employment, education, health, and safety? What shapes the interactions within and across neighborhoods? Why are jobs suburbanizing? Why are neighborhoods and schools segregated by race ethnicity, and income?
Basic Courses:
SOCI 3 Deviance and Social Control
SOCI 6 Race and Ethnic Relations
SOCI 10 Social Stratification
SOCI 11 Urban Sociology
SOCI 200 Criminal Justice
SOCI 233 Criminology
SOCI 254 Cities, Suburbs, and Their Regions
SOCI 270 The Immigrant City
SOCI 380 Neighborhood Dynamics of Crime
SOCI 409 New Media and Community Life
SOCI 420 Perspectives of Urban Poverty
SOCI 435 Globalization and Comparative Urban Development
SOCI 436 Culture, Arts and Media in Urban Context
SOCI 453 Metro Growth and Poverty
Advanced Courses:
SOCI 543 Social Stratification
SOCI 550 Social Inequality
SOCI 567 Urban Sociology
SOCI 591 Racial Justice and the Sociology of the Law
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