Social Problems

Catalog description

This course provides a sociological understanding of social problems. One part of that involves looking at specific social conditions defined as social problems, analyzing the root causes of those conditions and proposing and evaluating attempts to solve those problems. The other involves analyzing the process through which certain social conditions are defined as social problems. Topics include inequalities based in race/ethnicity, class, gender/sexuality or other systems of stratification, global climate change and its effects and crime and the criminal justice system.