Sociology

SOCY137 Deviance and Conformity

Why certain social acts are considered threatening and how individuals or groups become stigmatized. Sociological analysis of the institutions and processes of social control and the experience of becoming deviant and living with a stigmatized identity. Introductory course in sociology recommended.

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to junior and senior sociology majors, minors, and proposed majors, global information and social enterprise studies minors, and Latin American and Latino studies/sociology combined majors and proposed majors.

Credits

5

General Education Code

PE-H

Quarter offered

Winter

Instructor

M. McNamara