Identity, Action, and Emotion

Catalog description

Sociologists and social psychologists have made significant strides in recent decades using mathematical models to describe how people import cultural meanings into social interactions. This course explains how people maintain identities in role relationships and group interactions, and it explores a theory of how people perform normal institutional roles, respond to odd situations, and try to feel good about themselves. Students will learn to use computer simulations to model self, identity and emotional processes. They will leave the course knowing how to think scientifically about routine and unexpected parts of everyday life. 001362