INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY

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3 semester credit hours This course introduces learners to the processes of human social life through the theoretical perspectives, methods, and research findings of sociological inquiry. The course framework will allow learners to interpret their thoughts, feelings, and actions as influenced by the social institutions and by their social and cultural settings, including media. The course will also provide learners a sociological perspective to examine social inequalities such as racism, sexism, and poverty and how these inequalities result in the social and cultural fabric within which individuals live and interact with one another. This will help learners to interpret the diversity that exists within and between societies at a broader level, using sociological imagination.