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SOCI 2506 Social Problems

Prerequisite: SOCI 1015

Hours: Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits: 3

This course is concerned with a theoretical and empirical examination of major contemporary social problems and their international and national interconnection. Such problems as poverty, effects of industrialization, living and working conditions, populations growth, alienation and urbanization, are discussed. Various views/programs generated to deal with such problems are also be analysed and evaluated. This course may be credited towards a concentration is Social Welfare.

Offered every year.

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SOCI 3005 Survey Research: A Course in Applied Sociology

Prerequisite: SOCI 3125

Hours: One and one-half hours of lecture and one and one-half hours of laboratory work per week.

Credits: 6

This is a course in applied sociological research. 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, analyse the data statistically, by means of the interactive computer terminals, and write up the results.

Offered every year.

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SOCI 3075 Mass Culture and Mass Media

Prerequisite: SOCI 1015

Hours: Three hours of lecture per week.

Credits: 6

The role of mass media such as radio, press, magazines, television and movies on modern society is studied. Mass media as a means of social control and socialization. The effects of mass media on political, social and economic behavior.

Offered 1999-2000.

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