Sociology

A systematic introduction to understanding society, social structure, basic social institutions and their interrelations, the nature of social interactions, and the relationship between the individual and society. Particular attention is given to major issues within society such as power, social class, inequality and the processes by which human nature and instincts become socially transformed and socially structured. These social issues are examined comparatively and with particular reference to Canadian society. The student is also introduced to major theoretical issues in sociology, the methods of sociology and the rules of evidence in social science. This course is prerequisite to all upper-year courses unless specifically waived by the department. (lec 3) cr 6.

A course in the sociology of childhood with a focus on the social factors which affect the behaviour and development of children. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3.

A course in the sociology of adolescence with a focus on the social factors which affect the behaviour and development of adolescents. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or permission of theinstructor. (lec 3) cr 3.

Examines the different types of sociological reasoning used to answer questions about social behaviour, social programs and social policies. Students gain an appreciation of the value of the sociological perspective through the application of critical thinking. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3.

This course presents the context which gave birth to sociology, as well as a general overview of the classics which contributed to the development of sociology. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both SOCI 2017 and SOCI 3015.

A survey of the ways in which people's changing experience of work is shaped by gender, race, ethnicity, class, and culture in Canada and the wider global context. (lec 3) cr 3. Cross-listed with LBST 2026. Students may not retain credit for both SOCI 2026 and LBST 2026.

This course examines changes in the organization and meaning of family life as related to societal-level changes. Major theoretical frameworks are applied to understanding macro-micro linkages and their social policy implications. An overview of basic demographic trends is included. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both SOCI 2036 and SOCI 2035.

This course examines research methods including observational techniques, survey research and advanced sampling methodology. Students study a variety of inferential statistical procedures. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or LBST 1006. (lec 3) cr 3.

This course exposes students to the issues and problems relating to the organization and changing nature of work in modern industrialized societies. The evolving shape of the workplace, the labour movement and state intervention in labour relations are examined in the context of Canada and northeastern Ontario. Current problems in the Canadian labour relations system are addressed. (lec 3) cr 3. Cross-listed with LBST 2246. Students may not retain credit for SOCI/LBST 2246 and SOCI/LBST 3716.

This course is aimed at students who plan to consider a degree in education. It will provide venue for exploration of a range of social issues that relate to education. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or enrolment in the B.Ed. program or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3.

This course introduces students to the complex connections between different countries in the world and the way these connections are increased over time. The main objectives of the course are to expose students to the current debates about collective identities, citizenship and globalization and to encourage students to think critically about these topics. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both SOCI 2306 and SOCI 2047 (2045).

The primary objective of this course is to develop an understanding of the social making of gender in contemporary society. As a basis for this, anthropological and historical perspectives will also be covered. The focus of this course will be on a critical investigation of the social creation of gender and of the gendered division of labour and patriarchal social organization. The social making of normality and deviance in relation to gender will be explored. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3. This course may be counted towards a concentration in Women's and Gender Studies or the Certificate in Family Life Studies and Human Sexuality. Students may not retain credit for SOCI 2636 and SOCI 3626/3627(3625).

This course offers a sociological approach to a critical examination of the link between marginality and the likelihood of exposure to environmental risk in indigenous populations both locally in Northeastern Ontario, and more broadly in a Canadian context. This investigation, drawn across time and place, will contextualize definitions, systems of belief, knowledge production, and organizational relationships between communities at risk and resource industries. (lec 3) 3 cr Prerequisites: One of the following: SOCI 1015, ENVI 1507, INDG 1116, INDG 1117

The primary objective of this course is to develop an understanding of the social construction of sexuality in contemporary society. This course focuses on denaturalizing gender, sexuality, desire, heterosexualities and homosexualities to understand how these create and sustain the gendered division of labour and patriarchal social organization. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3.

The objective of this course is to study the causes of crime with a main emphasis on crime in Canada. The Criminal Code is studied and crime is defined. Types of crimes are described and their quantity estimated. After considering causal explanations generally, several theories of crime are analyzed and evaluated. This course is intended as a companion course with SOCI 2067EL Institutions of the Criminal Justice System, but is not a prerequisite. Student cannot retain credit for both SOCI 2066 and 2086. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3.

The institutions and policies of the Criminal Justice System of Canada, that is, the police, courts, prisons and various rehabilitation programs, are the subject matter of the course. Evaluation of programs to reduce crime and rehabilitate offenders receives special attention. This course is intended as a companion course with SOCI 2066EL Explanations of Crime, but is not a prerequisite. Student cannot retain credit for both SOCI 2067 and 2087. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3.

This course will examine the theoretical perspectives on the intersection of social class and gender, race, ethnicity. With reference to both Canadian and international studies, the course will analyze how class and identity are constructed through the intersections of gender, race and ethnicity. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or LBST 1006/1007 or permission of the Department Chair or designate. (lec 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for SOCI 2656 and either SOCI 2626 or SOCI 3066.

1. SOCI 2806 - Crime and Culture This course explores the relationship between crime and culture, in particular the proposition that culture produces crime and, through its normative social rules and codes, defines and classifies certain actions as "criminal" and "deviant" while others are "normal" and "permissible." It critically investigates how culture and cultural products like movies, television shows and comic books present and reinforce this dichotomy through construction of heroes and villains as well as good vs evil. PREREQUISITE: 18 university credits. (lec 3) cr 3.

This course provides a brief history of the various paradigms in Criminology. Both classical and contemporary approaches to crime and deviance will be explored, including, but not limited to, the school of positivism, biological and psychological theories of crime and conflict theory of Karl Marx. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) Cr. 3.

This course examines crime and media. Our knowledge of crime --what it is and who commits it, -- is transmitted, represented and produced for us by our mass media and popular culture network- including all electronic, visual and print media. Students are introduced to the relationship between crime reporting and the mass media. PREREQUISITE: 18 university credits. (lec 3) cr 3.

This course provides the interdisciplinary foundations for equity, diversity, and human rights. Connecting Indigeneity, gender, ethnicity, religion, class and (dis)ability, it explores historical and contemporary concerns such as intersectionality, perceptions and prejudices, inclusivity in the public realm, and the history of rights legislation. Prerequisite : SOCI 1015. 3 credits

This course provides an international perspective on equity, diversity, and human rights. It develops the historical and philosophical bases of international human rights and rights law, covering debates on natural rights, universality vs cultural embeddedness; Western vs Non-Western bases, and rights in practice. Prerequisite : SOCI 1015. 3 credits

The central objective of this course is developing critical sociological perspectives on the social making of the mass media and popular culture. Questions addressed in this course include: How are the mass media and popular culture socially organized? Are the mass media and popular culture terrains of domination or are they terrains of struggle and potential resistance? Does the development of the Internet as a major means of communication and information extend domination or extend possibilities for resistance? This course focuses first on the manufacturing of the news and then turns its attention to shifts and transformations in popular cultures. (lec 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both SOCI 3056 and SOCI 3907.

This course provides a detailed examination of workplace rights and labour advocacy from a legal, ethical and political perspective. Students will be introduced to the evolution of labour advocacy, theories of advocacy and the relevant legislative framework. The context of labour advocacy will be linked to the development of skills necessary to act as an advocate in the workplace. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or LBST 1006/1007 or permission of the Department Chair or designate. (lec 3) cr 3. Crosslisted with LBST 3246. Students may not retain credit for SOCI/LBST 3246 and SOCI/LBST 2256.

This course deals with formal and informal social structures of education and their influences on personnel with particular references to Ontario. The social factors determining success in upward mobility through the educational system are considered in relation to the overall structure of stratification in society. PREREQ: SOCI 2127 or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both SOCI 3296 and SOCI 2095.

This course examines paid and unpaid work in globalizing capitalist societies including advanced post industrial and new industrializing societies. PREREQ: SOCI 1015, LBST 1006/7 or permission of Department Chair or designate. (lec 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both SOCI 3516 and SOCI 3506.

The topic of the course varies with the instructor and the year. Usually the course will concern the professor's research. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3.

The topic of the course varies with the instructor and the year. Usually the course will concern the professor's research. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3.

This course examines the effects of poverty on the administration of justice in Canada. Students examine how socioeconomic class intersects with gender, sexuality, age and race in the criminal justice system. From increasing the probability of youth coming into contact with the incarceration system, what has been called the school-to-prison pipeline, to discriminating against mothers in family courts, poverty casts a long shadow over Canada's Criminal justice system. PREREQ: Theories of Criminology or permission of the instructor.

Canada's Criminal Justice System has a history of profiling minority populations and targeting marginalized groups based on their racial, ethnocultural, or religious identity. This course looks at how Canada's relationships with Indigenous peoples and different immigrant and racialized groups are reflected in the policies and practices of its various correctional institutions from the RCMP and CSIS to halfway houses and border patrols. PREREQ: SOCI 2816E Theories of Criminology or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3.

This course examines the social, economic, and political forces shaping the Canadian labouring classes with particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. The development of national and international unions in the Canadian context is investigated, with particular emphasis placed on the impact of globalization on international unionism. Topics include preindustrial working conditions, Aboriginal labour, industrialization, labour organizations, the growth of trade unions, labour legislation, and labour politics. PREREQ: LBST 1006/1007 or SOCI 1015. (lec 3) cr 3. Cross-listed with LBST 3256. Students may not retain credit for both SOCI 3256 and LBST 3256.

A study of aging and the aged in a cross-cultural perspective with special attention to Canada. Students may not retain credit for both SOCI 3807 & 3817. PREREQ: SOCI 2036 or 2037. (lec 3) cr 3

The heart of the course is an ongoing social survey and poll of northeastern Ontario in which students take part. Students produce a questionnaire, devise a sampling plan, undertake interviews, code responses, analyze the data statistically by means of the interactive computer terminals, and write up the results. PREREQ: SOCI 1015, STAT 2126 or equivalent, and SOCI 2127 or instructor's permission. (lec 3) cr 6.

This course is a comparative study of modern sociological theories based on original texts. The course presents current issues in the sociological theories. PREREQ: SOCI 2016. (lec 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both SOCI 3016 and SOCI 3015.

Examines the qualitative traditions of sociological research and links the epistemological underpinnings of research to practical techniques. A variety of data collection techniques are examined and compared including participant and non-participant approaches to data gathering. The development and administration of interviews are discussed along with content analysis and other semantic analysis approaches. PREREQ: SOCI 2127 or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3.

The primary objective of this course is to develop an understanding of the social construction of sexuality in contemporary society. This course focuses on denaturalizing gender, sexuality, desire, heterosexualities and homosexualities to understand how these create and sustain the gendered division of labour and patriarchal social organization. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3.

Comparative and historical treatment of the socioeconomic bases of legal structures. The social, political and economic implications of legal systems. Law as a mechanism of social control. The political economy of crime. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3. Students cannot retain credit for both SOCI 3086 and SOCI 3085.

This course explores the criminalization of illnesses and disabilities from a critical perspective. It examines, in a Canadian context, institutionalization, incarceration and governing of people considered to be dangerous to the public. Critical criminology and sociological theories are applied to historical and contemporary issues of criminalization of specific groups. (lec 3) 3 cr. Pre-requisite SOCI 1015 or permission of the instructor.

A study of the processes of development, evolution and impact of organisms which tend to influence (within a Canadian context) political decisions and history, e.g. labour, feminist, anti-nuclear movements. PREREQ: SOCI 1015 or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3.

This course explores critical analyses of sexuality, disability and human rights. The course considers ways in which people with disabilities are framed as outside of mainstream sexuality discourses. Historical and contemporary forms of regulation and management of people designated as non-conformative as well as issues of sexuality, disability, personhood and sex rights are considered alongside historical forms of resistance, identity and place-making. (lec 3) 3 cr. Pre-requisite- 18 university credits .

This course examines the experience of colonial and post-colonial situations throughout the world in order to illuminate the relation between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian state. The colonial relationship is examined from the perspectives of the colonized and of the colonizer. PREREQ: Minimum 12 POLI or SOCI credits at the 2000 level or permission of the department. (sem 3) cr 3. Cross-listed with SOCI 3437. Students may not retain credit for both INDI 3437 and either POLI 3437 and SOCI 3437.

This course exists as an opportunity for qualified students to do special studies in the field of sociology beyond or outside the regular departmental offerings. A member of the department will supervise the student's program of study in the course. A course outline and reading list will be established with the student. Written work and scheduled meetings are required. (tut 3) cr 3.

This course exists as an opportunity for qualified students to do special studies in the field of sociology beyond or outside the regular departmental offerings. A member of the department will supervise the student's program of study in the course. A course outline and reading list will be established with the student. Written work and scheduled meetings are required. (tut 3) cr 3.

This course examines sociological theories about labour force functioning and the social constitution of labour markets. Students will be introduced to competing approaches to labour market theory such as neoclassical economics, Marxian analysis, dual/segmented labour market analyses, and labour markets as social institutions. Topics include occupation and labour market structures; patterns of labour force attachment; and the socio-political consequences of economic restructuring and work structures. PREREQ: SOCI 3016 (or 3015) or SOCI/LBST 2026 or permission of Department Chair or designate. (lec 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both SOCI 4076 and either SOCI 4065 or SOCI 4066.

Traditionally, the workplace has been organized and segregated on race, gender and ethnic lines. This course examines the way these social variables affect the contemporary workplace. PREREQ: SOCI 3016 or SOCI/LBST 2026 or permission of Department Chair or designate. (lec 3) cr 3.

This course explores approaches to the study of the organization, operation, and transformation of power in society. Topics include stateless societies and state formation, political institutions and social hierarchies, the spatial organization of political power, political participation and social change, and revolution and counter-revolution. PREREQ: minimum 12 credits at the 2000 level or permission of the department. (lec 3) cr 3. Cross-listed with POLI 4137. Students may not retain credit for both POLI/SOCI 4137 and POLI 4456F.

This course provides an introduction to environmental sociology. Students will compare important theories in environmental sociology, such as: social constructionism, risk society, eco-Marxism, eco-feminism, deep ecology, and ecological modernization. There will be a specific focus on the social construction of risk in our contemporary societies, the role of science and the media, and new social inequalities related to these risks. We will also study the environmental movement and the globalization of contemporary environmental problems. (lec 3) cr 3.

This course examines the logic of Marxist class analysis that emerges from the historical materialistic and dialectical critique of capitalist society. The course also explores the application of class analysis to contemporary political practice. PREREQ: minimum 12 POLI or SOCI credits at the 2000 level or permission of the department chair. (sem 3) cr 3. Cross-listed with POLI 4466. Students may not retain credit for both SOCI 4466 and POLI 4466.

This course covers a wide variety of different topics pertinent to the teaching and research interests of the professor. PREREQ: SOCI 3016 or permission of the Department Chair or designate. (lec 3) cr 3.

This course builds on and extends the material presented in SOCI 2127. The course provides a background for studying more advanced material in social statistics, conveys intermediate quantitative methods for social research, and gives practice in the use and application of these methods. PREREQ: STAT 2126 and SOCI 2127 or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) cr 3.

This course explores the leading contemporary Sociological theories will be discussed. PREREQ: SOCI 3016 or permission of professor. (lec/sem 3) cr 3.

This course provides qualified students with an opportunity to write an Honours thesis based on original research in an area related to their specialization or major(s) for which faculty supervision is available. Various forms of research (e.g. survey, interview, secondary analysis of existing data or previous studies) may be proposed. The course is strongly recommended for students considering graduate studies. Students are not permitted to obtain credit for more than one Honours thesis. PREREQ: A minimum overall GPA of 7 (75-79% or B+), completion of at least 84 university credits, and permission of the department. Students must normally submit their research proposal to the department chair by March 31 to register in the next academic year. (tut 3) cr 6.

This course examines global health issues using class and gender analysis. The health impacts of colonialism and capitalism on Third World countries are examined, as are the health impacts of capitalist-patriarchy's worldwide appropriation of women's productive and reproductive capacities. PREREQ: SOCI 3016 or instructor's permission. (lec 3) cr 3.

This course examines the politics and policies of immigration and their impacts on society from a comparative perspective including Canada, the US, France, Germany, and the UK. It also discusses the associated models of integration of immigrants within societies. PREREQ: Minimum 60 university credits or permission of the department. Cross-listed with POLI 4226. Students may not retain credit for both SOCI 4226 and POLI 4226.

International society from historical, political, philosophical, legal, and sociological perspectives. It also looks at the development of international law to include Indigenous peoples within the global society, particularly through the emergence of Indigenous social movements. PREREQ: completion of 60 University credits. (lec 3) cr 3. Crosslisted with POLI 4256 and SOCI 4256. Students may not retain credit for both INDI 4256 and either POLI 4256, INDG 4256 or SOCI 4256.

This upper-level seminar will examine theories, practices and research in the sociology of children and youth. Students interested in the education and/or health of children and adolescents will find this course particularly relevant. The course will allow students to explore and critique the ways in which societies relate to, treat, teach and communicate with children and youth. Particular attention will be paid to understanding contemporary cultures of childhood and youth. (lec 3) cr 3.

This course explores contemporary sociological theories of crime and punishment with specific emphasis on comparing the modern era with traditional practices. We will explore how contemporary societies sanitize, normalize and neutralize traditional practices of discipline and punishment in order to make them palatable to modern sensibilities. PREREQ: SOCI 2816E Theories of Criminology or permission of the instructor. (lec 3) Cr. 3.

This course examines the crimes committed by corporations, their CEOs and the managerial structure. These crimes range from environmental to financial to the failure to provide a safe workplace for employees. What necessitates the ignoring and at times endorsement of corporate behaviour by government officials and the media? How do both the Private and Public sectors benefit from such crimes? PREREQ: SOCI 2816E Theories of Criminology or permission of instructor. (lec 3) cr 3.

This course covers a wide variety of different topics pertinent to the teaching and research interests of the professor. PREREQ: SOCI 3016 or permission of the Department Chair or designate. (lec 3) cr 3.