Rice Course Schedule, Spring 2000
Sociology (SOCI)

NOTE: Course web pages are available for some SOCI courses.

SOCI 203   INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY                Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Introduction to the principal concepts, theories, and methods of sociology.
Required (normally) for sociology majors.
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SOCI 306   SOCIOLOGY OF SEX ROLES                   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Relationship between gender and social role.  Development of the contemporary
sexual division of labor and process of socialization with reference to family,
education, media, and occupations.
Also offered as WGST 324
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SOCI 308   HOUSTON: SOCIOLOGY OF A CITY             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An approach to urban sociology and an exploration of contemporary social
change, using the Houston metropolitan area as a case study.  The rise of the
"golden buckle on the the sunbelt"; economic and demographic transformations
since the end of the oil boom; the new immigration and its impact on interethic
relations; the changing politics of education, inequality, inner-city
development and regional issues; perspectives on the urban future in global
economy.  Guest lectures, field  trips.
001 TBA                                 Klineberg, Stephen L.     Enr: 0 Max: NA

SOCI 310   URBAN SOCIOLOGY                          Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Study of urban development,form, and heterogeneity; and the conditions of life
associated with living in cities.  Examines the rise of cities, their growth
and purposes in the U.S. and  internationally.  Examines behavioral adaptaions
required by city life, and considers urban subcultures.
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SOCI 313   INTRODUCTION TO DEMOGRAPHY               Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An introduction to the study of dynamics of population change.  Demographic
data sources, components of population change, mortality patterns, family
planning, the measurement of migrations, population-economic models.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

SOCI 321   CRIMINOLOGY                              Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Types of criminal behavior, theories of crime and juvenile delinquency, with
attention to the role of police, courts, correction agencies, and other social
structures.  Field work.
Prereq- Soci 203 or departmental exam.
001 TBA - MWF 09:00AM - 09:50AM         Staff                     Enr: 0 Max:

SOCI 330   TEXAS SOCIETY&POLITICS                   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Strategies by which citizens effect social change through non-institutionalized
political activity.  The emergence, maturation, and decay of protest movements.
 Political impact of social movements on both institutions and individuals.
Primary focus is on 20th-century United States.
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SOCI 333   STUDIES IN RACIAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITY:   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Historical and contemporary analyses of Mexican American social identity.
Mexican Americans' current political, social, and economic position will be
traced back to their unique incorporation experience into the United States
political economy.  Questions of assimilation and marginality inform this
experience, the Civil Rights Movement, known in the Southwest as "the Chicano
Movement," constituting the primary point of departure.
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SOCI 334   SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY                  Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
A gendered analysis of role structure, sexuality, emotional bonds, and the
family as a support network in differing forms of contemporary families.  The
functioning of the family in differing cultures, classes, and lifestyles and
its relation to other social institutions.
Also offered as WGST 325
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SOCI 340   SOCIAL STATISTICS                        Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Exploration of two revolutionary modern thinkers, focusing on the tension
between freedom and determinism in their thought and the theory and practice of
their heirs.
001 TBA - MWF 01:00PM - 01:50PM         Staff                     Enr: 0 Max:

SOCI 345   SOCIOLOGY OF MEDICINE                    Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
This course gives a brief overview of relationships between social factors and
health.  It will analyze medicine as a solution and cause of many social and
individual problems.  It will examine stress and health, medicine and health
care systems.  Describes cross-cultural differences in health, alternative
sources in health policies, patterns of diseases and health policies in other
countries.
001 TBA - MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM         Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

SOCI 360   TELEVISION IN AMERICAN CULTURE           Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Analysis of television as popular discourse in the context of politics,
economics, class, gender, age and other cultural forms.
Prereq- Soci 203 or departmental exam.
001 TBA                                 Gordon, Chad              Enr: 0 Max: NA

SOCI 386   SEXUALITY & THE SOCIAL ORDER             Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Ways societies conceive of and regulate sexuality in members' lives; sexual
value systems; forms of sexual conduct (especially number, identities, and
objectives of participants and intimacy and power relations among them); the
changing role of sexuality over typical life span; forms and effects of sexual
communication; issues in the future of sexuality; and AIDS.
Prereq- Soci 203 or departmental exam.
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SOCI 390   RESEARCH METHODS                         Credits 3.00  Spring 00
An introduction to the methods sociologists use to study human societies and
their members, taught collectively by the Sociology faculty.  Hyupothesis
formulation and research design; qualitative studies through observations and
interviews; historical and comparative approaches; sample surveys and the
statistical analysis of quantitative data; political and ethical issues in
social research.
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SOCI 404   INDEPENDENT STUDY                        Credits   Spring 00
Directed readings and essay writing on special subjects. Includes advanced
study in subjects from other courses, if desired. May be repeated for credit.
Prereq- permission of the department.
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SOCI 419   ADV RESEARCH SEMINAR: HUMAN STATUS BEHAV Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Status display; invidious distinctions in human communities; positive and
negative functions of status hierarchy; analysis of novels, movies, survey
research data, ethnographic data.
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SOCI 421   THE CRAFT OF SOCIOLOGY                   Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
What has been, and is today, the "work" of sociology?  This question will be
addressed by a self-reflective exploration of the discipline--its historical
and social origins and development, its shifting philosophical foundations, its
methodological refinements, its ethical and political implications--and
discussion of sociological studies, both classic and controversial. Required
for Sociology majors.
001 TBA                                 Long, Elizabeth           Enr: 0 Max: NA

SOCI 425   POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY                      Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Examination of the sociological bases of American politics today: race and
ethnicity, socio-economic class, religion, gender and sexual preferences.
Masses and elites.  Barriers to  political participation.  Culture wars.
Extremist groups. Individualism and communitarianism.
Also offered as POLI 425
001 TBA                                 Davidson, Chandler        Enr: 0 Max: NA

SOCI 450   TOPICS IN STUDY OF RELIGION: FUNDAMENTAL Credits 3.00  Spring 00
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Examination of fundamentalist religious institutions, behavior, and thought.
Includes fundamentalist attitudes toward, participation in, and impact on
politics, economics, education, mass communication, and family life, using
Christian, Islamic, and Jewish examples, Fieldwork required.
001 TBA - TTH 11:00AM - 02:20PM         Martin, William C.        Enr: 0 Max: 50

SOCI 492   DIRECTED HONORS RESEARCH                 Credits 3.00  Spring 00
Sociolgical research under faculty supervision. Includes first-semester review
of relevant literarture and the preparation of an outline for planned reseach,
followed by second-semester research and the writing of an honors thesis.  Open
only to students in sociology honors program.
001 TBA                                 Staff                     Enr: 0 Max: NA

SOCI 496   ADV RES SEM:HOU AREA SURV 1995           Credits 4.00  Spring 00
Continuation of the series of annual surveys on how Houston residents are
reacting to changes in American society. Includes sampling procedures,
questionnaire construction, interviewing, and data analysis, the logic and
skills of survey research. Culminates in a research report that develops
empirical hypotheses and test their validity with survey  findings.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 TBA                                 Klineberg, Stephen L.     Enr: 0 Max: 15