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SOC Sociology Courses NOTE: Enrolment in SOC 200Y, 387Y, 389Y, 401Y is restricted as stated in the course descriptions below. Ineligible students will be removed even if the course appears on their timetable. SSC199Y1 Undergraduate seminar that focuses on specific ideas, questions, phenomena or controversies, taught by a regular Faculty member deeply engaged in the discipline. Open only to newly admitted first year students. It may serve as a distribution requirement course; see page 44. SOC101Y1 The basic principles and methods of sociology applied to the study of human societies; social sources of differing values and conceptions of reality, and the influences of these on the behaviour of individuals, patterns of relations among groups, and social stability and change. NOTE 200-LEVEL COURSES SOC200Y1 Introduction to Social Research 52L, 26T SOC203Y1 Development of sociological theory in the 19th and 20th
centuries; history of ideas; formal analysis; relationship between theory and empirical
inquiry. SOC205Y1 Complementary perspectives of the city: as an evolving entity
historically (urbanization); as a way of life and adaptation, reflecting cultures and
subcultures (urbanism); as territorial parts reflecting and contributing to social
processes (ecological perspective); as a unit managed by formal and informal parties
(structural perspective). SOC207Y1 The nature and meaning of work in relation to changes in the
position of the professions, unions and government, of women and minority groups, and in
industrial societies more generally. Career choice and strategies, occupational mobility,
and individual satisfaction at work. RLG210Y1 (See "Religion") SOC210Y1 Impact of racial, ethnic, and linguistic heterogeneity and of
various patterns of immigration on economic, political, and cultural institutions, and on
individual identity, self-conceptions, social attitudes, and relations. SOC212Y1 Sociological analysis of deviance (acts or persons that
violate the normative structures of society) and social control (societal responses that
attempt to reduce, treat, or transform deviance). What is deviance? What are different
ways societies respond to deviance? What are the consequences of efforts to regulate,
prevent, and punish deviance? SOC213Y1 An introduction to social scientific perspectives and
research on the nature, sources, dimensions, and impact of law; conceptual issues and
methodological strategies in establishing and interpreting linkages between legal and
other social structures and processes. SOC214Y1 An examination of cross-cultural variations and
social-historical changes in the organization of family life, followed by a critical look
at the key activities in family life today. Emphasis is on gender relations. SOC215Y1 The acquisition and reproduction of personality, culture, and
social structure. The social construction of everyday life and secondary socialization is
emphasized, with focus on work and family. SOC220Y1 An analysis of historical and contemporary empirical patterns
of inequality in Canada. The focus is on income, power, ethnic, regional, and gender
inequalities. SOC242Y1 Social factors influencing health and illness, definitions of
illnesses, and social responses to illness. Options for organizational structure of health
care systems. SOC246H1 (formerly SOC245Y) 39L SOC247H1 (formerly SOC245Y) 39L SOC250Y1 Overview of the classic theoretical literature. Topics may
include: the social origins of Judaism and Christianity; the process of secularization;
the significance of new religious movements; the relevance of "civil religion";
and the contemporary upsurge of "fundamentalism". JAL254H1 (See "Anthropology" or "Linguistics") SOC256H1 (formerly SOC255Y) 26L SOC257H1 (formerly SOC255Y) 26L SOC260Y1 Examination of the forces and factors that drive and shape
policy in Canadian society. The policy areas examined may include: education, labour force
and employment, employment equity, ethnocultural relations, and the environment.
Exploration of the applications of sociology in the formulation and evaluation of policy
choices. SOC263H1 (formerly SOC262Y) 26L SOC274H1 This course studies the effects of language on human
societies, focusing attention on how language changes with social class, gender, and
social situations. this course will include studies of language taboos, pidgin and Creole
languages, and bilingualism and multilingualism. SOC293Y1/294Y1/295Y1 TBA SOC296H1/297H1/298H1 TBA SOC299Y1 Credit course for supervised participation in faculty
research project. See page 44 for details. SOC300Y1 Basic statistical techniques with an emphasis on applications
to sociological examples. Hypothesis testing techniques include chi-square, analysis of
variance, and regression. Corresponding exploratory techniques (or resistant methods of
developing hypotheses). SOC301Y1 Theories of social inequality, its historical evolution, and
the determinants of continuity and change of patterns of social inequality. SOC303H1 Describes the political, social and economic implications of
diversity in family structure. Uses empirical studies in the sociological tradition to
describe current trends in living arrangements and family relationships. Examines social
and economic consequences of the inconsistencies between public definitions and the
reality of family life. SOC304H1 Shows how "getting ahead" or becoming
"downwardly mobile" are affected by social as well as economic factors. Links
the experience of mobility to larger scale social change. SOC306Y1 Examines explanation, theory construction, measurement
procedures, and techniques for data collection and analysis within the sociology of crime
and delinquency. SOC309Y1 (formerly SOC309H) 52L SOC312Y1 Population processes (birth, death, and migration) and their
relationship to social, cultural, and economic change. SOC317Y1 (formerly SOC316Y) 52L SOC320Y1 Uses of sociological research in guiding social policies and
programs. Evaluation research and needs assessment methods are emphasized. Students are
required to engage in a research practicum (apprenticeship) at an agency working towards
social change or providing social services. SOC327Y1 Themes include the demand for caregiving, evolving and
emerging diseases (genetic, environmental, social, cancer-linked), state's role in health
care, factors affecting caregivers, home health care procedures, how families organize to
deal with health problems. SOC328H1 Develops student skills in manipulating cross-classified
categorical data as well as the effective presentation and informed interpretation of
results. Requires use of internet to access census tables. Not intended for Sociology
Specialists, who must take SOC300Y. SOC330Y1 Comparative study of interethnic relations, including
comparisons of ethnic groups and types of ethnic groups and comparisons of their relative
position in different institutions, social structures, and societies. Comparisons made
with respect to the impact of society on ethnic groups, and ethnic groups in society. SOC338Y1 Examines impact of globalization on labour markets, processes
and movements as well as the formal and informal responses of workers to the changing
context. Topics include labour migration, transnational workers movements, national and
international labour codes. SOC340Y1 Examination of competing interpretations of the processes of
revolution and counterrevolution through the study of the French Revolution, Russian
Revolution and Mexican Revolution; these historically specific debates are linked to
generic issues of Political Sociology, such as state-society relations; class versus elite
analysis; relationship between economic, political and social change. SOC341Y1 Classical and recent writings on Jewish ethno-national
identity in the modern period; communal organization; forms of Jewish life in the diaspora
and its relationship to other ethnic groups and to society at large; contemporary role of
the Holocaust and ethnic memory; Jews in Canada; gender in the Jewish community. SOC342Y1 (formerly SOC394Y) 52L SOC343Y1 (formerly SOC493Y) 52L SOC355Y1 The structure of social relationships, including both
personal networks and the overall organization of whole social settings. The role of
social structure in social support, access to scarce resources, power conflict,
mobilization, diffusion, and beliefs. SOC356Y1 Analysis of the interplay between technology and society,
starting with the Industrial Revolution. Considers how technological developments affect
social systems, communications, work, leisure and world-systems. SOC360Y1 Examination of cultural process practices through which
culture is constituted (ordered) and reproduced. A dominant cultural order is created and
reproduced through the process of selective tradition, which is treated as natural and
"taken for granted." The cultural processes involve the interaction of economic,
political, ideological and cultural practices. SOC363H1 (formerly SOC262Y, 264H) 26L SOC365Y1 Examination of historical and contemporary sources of gender
inequity, and the many dimensions of gender difference and inequality today. SOC366H1 Women's paid and unpaid work and the relationship between the
two. Questions about gender gap in earnings, sexual segregation of the labour force,
restructuring of paid work, sexual harassment, paid domestic work, and the division of
housework and child care. SOC367H1 Explores three key sources of inequality in this society:
gender, social class, and race. Examines these three sources of divisions in paid and
unpaid work; differences in family by class, race, and ethnicity; the organization of
different communities; and select cultural issues. SOC369Y1 Attention focused on case studies which investigate the
social organization of Canadian communities. The case study approach emphasizes theory and
methods. The major course requirement is an ethnographic study of a "community." SOC370Y1 The role and development of labour and the labour movement in
Canada, its differential success in various industries and regions, and its impact on
other aspects of society. SOC373H1 The experience of disability and the social definition of the experience for self and others. Combination seminar and lecture format. SOC374H1 The experience of disability and the social definition of the
experience for self and others. Combination seminar and lecture format. continuation of
Disability I. SOC375Y1 Internal structure of formal and informal organizations;
bureaucracies; patterns of interorganizational relations; impact of organizations on
social structure and social classes of different societies. SOC381Y1 (formerly SOC393Y) 52L SOC382Y1 (formerly SOC399Y) 52L SOC385Y1 Provides a framework for the empirical analysis and practical
solution of problems dealing with human well-being which have contextual dimensions.
Topics dealt with cover both built and natural environments, as well as aspects of
technology. Each student examines a particular problem in detail. SOC386Y1 Examines explanation, theory construction, measurement
procedures, and the logic of quantitative analysis within urban sociology and social
demography. SOC387Y1 (formerly SOC405Y) 52L SOC388H1 Explores the structure and interactions of everyday
experience. Views our lives as socially ordered and ourselves as agents. Offers experience
in qualitative research and using writing experience. Not intended for Sociology
Specialists, who must take SOC405Y. SOC389Y1 A selective introduction to major thinkers and approaches in
contemporary sociological theory. SOC389Y is a
restricted course. SOC390Y1/391H1/392H1 TBA SOC393Y1/394Y1 TBA SOC395H/396H1/397H1 TBA SOC398H0/399Y0 An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus
setting. See page 44 for details. SOC401Y1 Provides sociology Specialists with an opportunity to explore
a sociological topic in depth. Varies in focus from year to year. Consult the Departmental
website for current course offering. SOC401Y is a
restricted course. Enrolment is limited to sociology Specialists (see Note 1 above). SOC451H1 Covers statistical methods currently used in the major
sociological journals including multiple linear regression, logistic regression, and the
fitting of loglinear models to tables of cross-classified categorical data. Stresses
presentation skills and sociological interpretation of results. SOC452H1 Students learn to calculate life tables and total fertility
rates, and apply these concepts in computer projections and simulations. SOC453H1 This course provides a rigorous introduction to applied
research and policy studies in seminar and lecture format. Students are evaluated by a
major research paper, applying the principles of the course. SOC454H1 This course provides an opportunity for students to apply the
principles learned in SOC453H to an applied social
research project conducted by the student. Students will be evaluated on the basis of a
seminar presentation and on the written report on their research. SOC490Y1/491H1/492H1 TBA SOC493Y1/494Y1/495Y1 TBA SOC496H1/497H1/498H1 TBA NOTE |
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