Spring 2022

SOCIOL 110 001 - LEC 001

Organizations and Social Institutions

Heather A Haveman

Jan 18, 2022 - May 06, 2022

Tu, Th

08:00 am - 09:29 am

Valley Life Sciences 2060

Class #:26135

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Sociology

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 73

Enrolled: 57

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 130

Waitlist Max: 30

Open Reserved Seats:

62 unreserved seats

11 reserved for Sociology Majors

Hours & Workload

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 9 to 7 hours of outside work hours per week, and 0 to 2 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

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Course Catalog Description

This survey course studies administrative organizations and voluntary associations; major social institutions in industry, government, religion, and education.

This course explains why organizations are the most powerful elements of modern societies. All interests – economic, political, social, and cultural – are pursued through organizations like business firms, social movements, social media, and streaming-TV companies. This course takes students through the history of organizations to how sociologists study organizations to questioning the roles that organizations play in critical challenges like climate change, inequality, and partisan politics.

Class Notes

Sociol 110 will record minilectures to be made available to student before each lecture session. Each lecture will be devoted to a disussion about the lectures you have viewed. Videos will be recorded on zoom and will be placed on the bcourses site for students to access in preparation for the in-pe.. show more