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Introduction to Sociology

Course #: SOCIOL 101, Class #: 6850, Section #: 06

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This course provides a broad overview of sociology and how it applies to everyday life. Major theoretical perspectives and concepts are presented under the following broad sections: sociological imagination, social inequality, and social institutions. Applying C. Wright Mills; notion of the 'sociological imagination,' this course will seek to find ways to connect an understanding of ourselves with broad dynamics of national and global social structures and forces of social change.

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