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$79
Plus membership
3 Credits
All courses include:
eTextbooks
2 to 3-day turnaround for grading
Multiple chances to improve your grade
On-demand tutoring & writing center
Student support 7 days a week
Introduction to Sociology
$79
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3 Credits
About This Course
ACE Approved 2023
Introduction to Sociology strives to provide you with a broad overview of sociology and its applications to everyday life. This online course presents major theoretical perspectives and concepts, including sociological imagination, culture, deviance, inequality, social change, and social structure.
What You'll Learn
View people’s behavior from a sociological perspective, discover your own sociological imagination, and apply it to a variety of social problems and situations.
View people’s behavior from a sociological perspective, discover your own sociological imagination, and apply it to a variety of social problems and situations.
List at least five sociologists and their major contributions to the field.
Describe the three major sociological perspectives—Functionalist, Conflict, and Interactionist—and analyze human behavior applying these perspectives appropriately.
Explain the elements of a culture and how culture is different from society.
Explain the seven steps of the scientific research process and recognize appropriate research procedures in an experiment or an article describing research.
Explain the relationships between social structure, social stratification, and the consequences of social status.
List at least four universal social institutions and describe the characteristics of each.
Describe how inequality and other social factors contribute to social change.
Summarize the relationship between socialization and the family.
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In Introduction to Sociology, students explore the influence of social class and social institutions, such as churches, education, healthcare, government, economy, and environment. The family as a social structure is also examined.
There are no prerequisites to take Introduction to Sociology.
| Topic | Subtopics |
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| The Sociological Perspective & Development of Sociology |
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| The Research Process |
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| Culture and Society |
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| Socialization |
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| Social Structure |
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| Deviance |
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| Social Stratification |
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| Social Inequality |
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| Social Institutions: The Familye |
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| Social Institutions: Religion, Education, and Health Care |
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| Social Institutions: Government, Economy, and the Environment |
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| Social Change |
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Your score provides a percentage score and letter grade for each course. A passing percentage is 70% or higher.
Assignments for this course include:
- 4 Graded Exams
- 1 Graded Midterm
- 1 Graded Final
The required eTextbook for this course is included with your course purchase at no additional cost.
Schaefer, Richard T. Sociology in Modules. 5th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2020. ISBN: 9781260074956
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