Politics and Society

Catalog description

This course provides an overview of the social, political, and economic processes that shape contemporary American sociopolitical life. Students will study and analyze a range of scholarship from different disciplines in order to decipher the underlying sociopolitical themes in contemporary, American sociopolitical life. Students are provided with the theoretical tools needed to assist them in their interpretations of salient sociopolitical processes central to our contemporary world. While the course will focus on the American context, many of the theoretical arguments apply cross-nationally, so comparisons to and examples from other advanced industrial societies will also be discussed.