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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
SOC 3 | Title:
SELF AND SOCIETY |
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| Full Title:
Self and Society |
| Last Reviewed:4/12/2021 |
| Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
| Maximum | 3.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 3.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 52.50 |
| Minimum | 3.00 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 17.5 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| | Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| | Contact Total | 3.00 | | Contact Total | 52.50 |
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| | Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| | Total Out of Class Hours: 105.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Applicable
Grading:
Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:
00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As:
Formerly:
Catalog Description:
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This course is an introduction to the sociological study of face-to-face interaction, exploring the social factors that influence how we see ourselves and how we manage our presentations of self to others.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 100 or ESL 100
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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This course is an introduction to the sociological study of face-to-face interaction, exploring the social factors that influence how we see ourselves and how we manage our presentations of self to others.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 100 or ESL 100
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
| Associate Degree: | Effective: | Fall 2006
| Inactive: | |
| Area: | D
| Social and Behavioral Sciences
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| CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
| | D | Social Science | Fall 2006 | |
| | D0 | Sociology and Criminology | | |
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| IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
| | 4 | Social and Behavioral Science | Fall 2006 | |
| | 4J | Sociology and Criminology | | |
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| CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 2006 | Inactive: | |
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| UC Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 2006 | Inactive: | |
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| C-ID: |
Certificate/Major Applicable:
Major Applicable Course
COURSE CONTENT
Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Distinguish between psychological and sociological approaches to
examining self and society.
2. Explain the relationship between social structure, interpersonal
and subjective experience.
3. Illustrate how gender, social class and inequalities are
interactionally formulated and negotiated.
4. Analyze how impression management strategies are used in everyday
life.
5. Summarize the contributions of Goffman, Cooley and Mead to this field
of study.
6. Employ sociology of emotions concepts such as feeling rules
and emotion management, to specific institutional settings.
7. Demonstrate how social roles (obligations and entitlements) are
constructed and maintained.
8. Identify how agents of socialization, such as mass media,
policymakers and claims makers, shape reality for members of society.
9. Interpret the relationships between physical self, identity, and
social processes.
10. Analyze how changes in personal sense of self reflect changes in
institutions, such as the economy, medicine, law, etc.
11. Apply social science research methods in conducting studies of self
management and social context including: interviewing, ethnography,
observation and/or conversational analysis.
12. Critically assess sociological studies of self and society in terms
of different methods used to both conceptualize and measure data.
Topics and Scope
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1. Orientation to the world of microsociology
2. Inner lives as constructed through social interaction
3. Sociology of emotions as a subfield of sociology
4. The historical development of analytic thought about the social self
5. Cultural changes and their impacts on emotion management strategies
6. Linkages between social structure and ongoing production of selves
7. The nature of symbolic interaction and communication
8. Mass media's growing influence on self-conceptualization
9. Social characteristics such as race, ethnicity, and class position as
negotiated aspects of encounters
10. Ongoing productions of gender roles and their relationship to
current trends.
11. Analysis of ordinary conversation as demonstrating how social reality.
12. Critical assessment of research methods used by sociologists to
conceptualize, gather, and interpret data in this field.
Assignments:
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1. Students will read approximately 1-2 chapters per week, or 3 journal
articles.
2. Students will write 15-20 pages over the semester. This will be
accomplished through critical-thought essays, examinations, and by
conducting brief research projects using ethnographies, and/or
observations of popular culture.
3. Assignments will include 2 objective and/or essay exams.
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
| Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing
50 - 60% |
| Written homework, Essays, research papers | |
| Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
40 - 50% |
| Multiple choice, Completion, Essay exams | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
0 - 0% |
| None | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Inner Lives and Social Worlds: Readings in Social Psychology. Holstein, James and Gubrium, Jaber. Oxford University Press: 2003.
Inside Social Life: Readings in Sociological Psychology and Microsociology, 4th ed. Cahill, Spencer. Roxbury: 2004.
The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, 2nd ed. Hochchild, Arlie Russell. University of California Press: 2003.
Self and Society. Banaman, Ann. Blackwell Publishing: 2001.
Sociology in Everyday Life, 3rd ed. Karp, David, et al. Waveland Press: 2003.
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