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Sociology (SOC)
College of Social Sciences
In addition to the prerequisites specified below,
all 300-level courses have as a prerequisite SOC 100 or a 200-level
sociology course, or consent. In addition to the prerequisites specified
below, all 400-level courses require SOC 300 or consent.
SOC 100 Introduction to Sociology (3) Basic
social relationships, social structures, and processes. SS
SOC 214 Introduction to Race and Ethnic Relations
(3) Race and ethnic relations in world perspective; social,
economic, and political problems associated with perception, existence,
and accommodation of these groups within the wider society. SS
SOC 218 Introduction to Social Problems (3) Theoretical
and substantive survey of the nature and causes of social problems;
selected types: poverty, inequality, deviance, etc. SS
SOC 231 Introduction to Juvenile Delinquency (3) Forms
of juvenile deviance; conditions and processes that result in alienation
and deviance of youth. Juvenile corrections as institutionalized
societal responses. SS
SOC 251 Introduction to Sociology of the Family (3)
Family patterns, mate selection, parent-child interaction,
socialization of roles, legal sanctions, trends in organization,
functions. SS
SOC 300 Principles of Sociological Inquiry (3) (2
Lec, 2 50-min Lab) Basic methods of sociology for production and
analysis of data. Foundations for understanding research and for
advanced courses in methods and statistics. Pre: one of 100, 214, 218,
231, or 251; or consent.
SOC 301 Survey of Urban Sociology (3) The city
in historical and comparative perspectives. Interplay of demographic,
economic, and cultural factors in urban growth. Urban process,
development, and interdependence.
SOC 311 Survey of Social Stratification (3) General
introduction to social stratification theory and research; definition
and measurement of social status; power structures, class differences in
lifestyles and life chances, social mobility.
SOC 313 Survey of Sociology of Work (3) Work
from viewpoint of individuals; meaningfulness versus productivity; how
work, economics, and the industrial system affect individual goals.
SOC 316 Survey of Social Change (3) Causes,
processes, and effects of social change, using single- and multi-cause
models in simple and complex industrialized societies.
SOC 317 Survey of Sociology of the Community (3) Definitions,
models, and theories; classic studies with applications from
participant/members and sociologist/observers; intentionality in
organizational work, communes, and social networks; special reference to
local community.
SOC 318 Women and Social Policy (3) Social
and economic policies affecting women in families, education, social
services, government, health care, the economy; public policy
implementation and development; policy impact on women. Pre: 100 or WS
151; or consent. (Cross-listed as WS 318)
SOC 321 Survey of Sociological Theory (3) Major
theorists and their influences, from Comte to today.
SOC 332 Survey of Sociology Law (3) Law as a
political enforcement of the social order; how it is organized and
operates; determinants of effectiveness; ways it adapts to and
facilitates changing social conditions.
SOC 333 Survey of Criminology (3) Concepts
used in crime, law enforcement, criminal justice, and corrections. Types
of criminal behavior; costs and effects of control.
SOC 335 Survey of Drugs and Society (3) Use
of mood- and mind-altering drugs in America among adults, youth, and
cross-culturally. Illicit drug culture, psychedelics, and perception;
social norms and deviant behavior.
SOC 336 Deviant Behavior and Social Control (3) Interrelations
of deviance, criminology, juvenile delinquency, corrections, social
control, sociology of law. Key concepts, theories.
SOC 341 Survey of Social Psychology (3) Major
principles; social attitudes, theories of conformity and change, person
perception and attribution theory, social role, role conflict and role
behavior, group structure, and behavior.
SOC 343 Survey of Total Institutions (3) Erving
Goffman’s concept of total institutions as applied to prisons, mental
hospitals, leprosaria, military establishments, ocean vessels, etc., and
to “social self” and “social interaction.”
SOC 352 Survey of Sociology of Education (3) Formal
education as one aspect of socialization. Emphasis on American system;
business, military, and religious institutions.
SOC 353 Survey of Sociology of Aging (3) Aging
as a social phenomenon, including social impacts of growing elderly
population and emerging social patterns among the elderly. Important
theoretical perspectives and cross-national research.
SOC 354 Survey of Medical Sociology (3) Social
factors in disease and treatment; illness behavior, roles of patients
and healers; nature of healing professions; use of medical services;
alternative systems of medical organization.
SOC 356 People and Institutions of China (3) Social
institutions, family, community, education, stratification, government,
economy; impact of modernization and revolution on their contemporary
transformation.
SOC 357 People and Institutions of Japan (3) Persistence
and change in economy, policy, religion, education, family, and other
institutions of modern Japan.
SOC 358 People and Institutions of Korea (3) Institutional
analysis of contemporary North and South Korea: family, socialization,
economy, polity, religion; social class, urban-rural differences,
economic-political ties.
SOC 362 Sociology of Gender (3) Effect of sex
and gender roles (both traditional and nontraditional) on attitudes and
behavior within the family and educational, economic, and governmental
systems. (Cross-listed as WS 362) SS
SOC 401 Analysis in Urban Sociology (3) Urbanization
in developed and developing countries, the rural-urban continuum,
structure and process of metropolitan regions, theories of urban
location and growth, housing and urban renewal.
SOC 411 Analysis in Social Stratification (3) Approaches
to research in social inequality: community studies; historical and
cross-cultural analyses of poverty, working class, middle class, power
structure, social mobility, etc.
SOC 412 Analysis in Population and Society (3) Global
and U.S. patterns of population growth; composition and distribution,
elementary demographic techniques; development issues and population
policy. (Cross-listed as PPST 412)
SOC 413 Analysis in Industrial Sociology (3) Application
of functional analysis to events in industrial societies, such as
strikes and their effects on other aspects of life in the community.
Recommended: 313.
SOC 415 Technology and Society (3) Nature of
technology, social forces that affect its adoption; impact on society;
innovation.
SOC 416 Analysis in Deliberate Social Change (3) Consequences,
intended or not, of educational interventions, dispute settlement,
community development, family assistance, housing, etc. Recommended:
316.
SOC 417 Comparative Study--Small Communities (3) Problems
of studying the small community in various settings in non-Western
societies; use of data as indicators of social change.
SOC 418 Women and Work (3) Gender division of
labor nationally and internationally; sex differentials in labor supply,
training, wages, working conditions, and unemployment; historical trends
and future directions. Pre: one 300-level SOC or WS course. (Crosslisted
as WS 418)
SOC 419 Analysis in Formal Organizations (3) Schools,
hospitals, industries, prisons, and government agencies analyzed in
terms of self-actualization, alienation, human relations, communication,
leadership, organizational conflicts.
SOC 431 Criminology/Juvenile Delinquency (3) Research
in systematic social deviation. Scaling and measurement of
delinquents/criminals, official data, gangs, identification and
measurement of delinquent/ criminal value orientations, etc.
SOC 432 Analysis in Corrections (3) Behavioral
assumptions of various correctional practices and modes of organization;
current “in-community” approaches.
SOC 433 Analysis in Law and Social Change (3) Interrelationships
between legal orders and other social institutions; use of “law” to
change major status relationships, e.g., boss-worker, woman-man,
child-adult. Recommended: 332.
SOC 435 Women and Crime (3) Women’s relations
with the criminal justice system; types of women’s offenses; responses
to women’s crime; women as victims; women as workers in the criminal
justice system. Pre: one 100- or 200-level SOC or WS course.
(Cross-listed as WS 435)
SOC 441 Social Structure and the Individual (3) Effects
of social institutions on individuals. Role of socioeconomic status,
cultural background, family structure, peer group, schools, and
occupational roles in socialization.
SOC 446 Analysis in Rape and Sexual Abuse (3) Theories,
methodologies, and research findings on rape victimization and
treatment; sexual abuse of women and children in Hawai‘i. Pre: 300 or
consent. (Cross-listed as WS 446)
SOC 451 Analysis in Marriage and the Family (3) Theory
and methods of studying social interaction in marriage and the family;
examination of marriage, mating, love, and choice. Empirical research
emphasizing Hawai‘i.
SOC 452 Marriage and Family: A Feminist Perspective
(3) Sex-role socialization, mate selection, motherhood,
career-family conflicts. Alternative family structures in U.S. and other
countries. Pre: 200-level SOC course or WS 351, and upper division
social science major. (Cross-listed as WS 452)
SOC 453 Analysis in Sociology of Aging (3) Social and research
issues significant to delivery of long-term care services to the
elderly; cost, quality, availability of services, evaluation of
programs, role of family, formal and informal care services. Pre: 353.
SOC 454 Analysis in Medical Sociology (3) Application
of sociological theories and concepts to medical social situations and
behavior; problems of obtaining data for research.
SOC 455 Sociology of Religion (3) Seminar in
research on sociological aspects of religious sectarianism; attention to
Hawai‘i. Pre: 300 or consent. (Cross-listed as REL 452)
SOC 456 Racism and Ethnicity in Hawai‘i (3) The
historical and contemporary social processes involved in inter-ethnic
relations in Hawai‘i. Pre: 300.
SOC 457 Sociology of the Arts (3) Relation of
art to society; role of artist, audience, critic, patron, museum;
Western and other societies; attitudes toward new styles.
SOC 459 Popular Culture (3) Popular culture as
manifested in film, sports, TV, comics, magazines, etc.; relation to
sociological theories and studies.
SOC 472 Modern Sociological Theory (3) Current
theories such as functionalism, conflict theory, social exchange, and
symbolic interaction in the works of Parsons, Merton, Mead, Homans, and
others.
SOC 475 Analysis in Survey Research (3) Survey
research design and analysis, including theory selection instrument
construction, sampling techniques, data collection, computerized data
analysis, and writing up research reports of the findings. Pre: 300 or
consent.
SOC 476 Social Statistics (3) Common
statistical procedures emphasizing univariate and bivariate description;
some attention to multivariate techniques and statistical inference,
within context of research procedures.
SOC 476L Social Statistics Laboratory (1) Required
lab for computer applications for analysis of sociological data. CR/NC
only. Co-requisite: 476.
SOC 478 Analysis in Field Research Methods (3) Techniques
for collecting and analyzing qualitative data. Participant observation;
small groups in natural settings; community studies. Grounded theory;
theories of everyday life; reality construction.
SOC 479 Theories of Social Conflict (3) Classical
and contemporary theories whose major dynamic element is conflict;
theories that assign conflict lesser importance.
SOC 491 Discussion Group Leader-- Freshman Seminar
(6) Students lead a freshman seminar section of sociology and meet
weekly with instructor for substantive background. Pre: senior standing
and consent.
SOC 495 (Alpha) Topics in Sociology (3) Faculty
projects normally limited to 10 students. Topics pre-announced each
semester. Pre: 300 or consent.
SOC 495B Seminar: Tutoring and Testing (3) For
students assisting in the self-study section of 100. Teaching,
evaluating, test questions. Pre: consent.
SOC 496 Topics in Sociology: Student Projects (V) Students
create their own study group and solicit an adviser from faculty.
Consult department for assistance.
SOC 499 Directed Reading or Research (V)
All graduate courses in the department require
classified graduate standing in sociology or consent. Additional
prerequisites are specified below.
SOC 500 Master’s Plan B/C Studies (1) Enrollment
for degree completion. Pre: master’s Plan B or C candidate and
consent.
SOC 604 Methods of Research in Criminal Justice (3)
Multidisciplinary perspective on methods and techniques of research
in the correctional and remediating professions for practicing and
potential correctional or social workers.
SOC 605 Seminar in Advanced Statistics (3) Multivariate
analysis. Analysis of variance; multiple regression procedures; multiple
classification analysis, stepwise regression, discriminant functional
analysis, and path analysis. Pre: 476.
SOC 605L Advanced Statistics Laboratory (1) Required
lab for computer applications for analysis of sociological data. CR/NC
only. Pre: 476 or consent. Co-requisite: 605.
SOC 606 Research Methods and Design (3) Emphasis
on theory selection, theory construction, and choice of research
strategies.
SOC 608 Survey Research Design and Analysis (3) Survey
study designs, survey sampling, questionnaire construction,
interviewing, pre-tests, pilot studies, logic of measurement and
association, table construction, and elaboration models. Pre: consent.
(Cross-listed as EDEA 608)
SOC 609 Seminar Qualitative Research (3) Advanced
seminar on conducting fieldwork in natural social settings with emphasis
on qualitative techniques, political and ethical considerations, data
management and assessment, interpretation and reflexive writing.
Repeatable once only. Pre: 478 or consent.
SOC 611 Classical Sociological Theory (3) Seminar
offers a critical overview of major perspectives and representative
works in sociological theory from 19th-century to the 1960s, including
intellectual contexts and historical development. A-F only. Pre:
graduate standing. Fall only.
SOC 612 Contemporary Sociological Theory (3) Seminar
offers a critical overview of major perspectives and representative
works in sociology theory from the 1960s to the present, including
intellectual contexts and historical development. A-F only. Pre:
graduate standing. Spring only.
SOC 613 Organizational Analysis (3) Theoretical
approaches to organizations; organizational structure and process;
organizational pathologies and effectiveness; the organization and its
environment. Pre: 419.
SOC 615 Sociology of Health Services (3) Utility
of sociological concepts and social research methods for analyzing
relationships among individuals’ social characteristics, health status
and needs, and use of health services.
SOC 616 Seminar in Stress and Health (3) Analysis
of current theory and empirical research on relationship of stress and
health; sociological, psychological, and community psychiatry models and
current issues.
SOC 631 Seminar in Criminology (3) Major
current theories, history of their development, elaborations of
typologies, implications for treatment modalities.
SOC 632 Criminal Justice System (3) Examination
of the criminal justice system; the exercise of discretion and limits
placed upon it. Pre: consent.
SOC 661 Demography of Human Fertility (3) Causes
of variation in human fertility between and within societies and over
time; role of economic and social factors. Implications of population
policy. Pre: PPST 650 and PPST 691. (Cross-listed as PPST 661)
SOC 691 Methods of Demographic Analysis (3) Statistical
evaluation and analysis of population data; data sources; population
growth; composition; standardization of rates; mortality and the life
table; nuptiality and fertility; distribution, migration, urbanization;
projections and stable population theory. Pre: 476. (Crosslisted as PH
659 and PPST 691)
SOC 699 Directed Reading/Research (V)
SOC 700 Thesis Research (V) Research for
master’s thesis.
SOC 701 Seminar in Evaluation Research (3) Research
design, data collection, field problems and analysis in the evaluation
of social programs. Examples from criminal justice, corrections, drug
treatment, mental health, and public health. Pre: statistics.
SOC 705 Multivariate Analysis (3) Application
to population data. Multiple classification analysis, path analysis,
logit and multinomial logit regression and hazard models. Repeatable
once only. (Cross-listed as PPST 705)
SOC 706 Historical Social Analysis (3) Methods
of historical sociological analysis as they are related to various
sociological theoretical perspectives.
SOC 710 Seminar in Comparative Sociology (3) Conduct
of comparative social research; special advantages and problems in
theoretical development and research strategies. Substantive focus in
Pacific rim. Pre: 605 and 606, or consent.
SOC 711 Seminar in Sociology of Knowledge (3) Sociological
theory applied to bases of knowledge in everyday life, professional
communities, and the sciences. Research and theory-building activities
of sociologists; ethnomethodology; construction of social structure,
culture, and consciousness. Repeatable once only.
SOC 713 Theories of Social Conflict (3) Classical
and contemporary theories in Marx, Weber, Simmel, Parsons, Coser,
Dahrendorf, etc.; their application, synthesis, and extension; relation
to other theoretical traditions.
SOC 715 Seminar in Current Issues in Sociology (3) Substantive
areas that are of current interest and the focus of research, but not
addressed in other courses. Repeatable once.
SOC 716 Seminar in Medical Sociology (3) Application
of theoretical paradigms and methodologies to the examination of
selected research topics in the field of medical sociology. Pre: 615 or
consent.
SOC 720 Comparative Study of East Asia (3) Comparative
analysis of social organization, social processes, and change of both
capitalist and communist countries of East Asia, with each other and
other areas of the world. Pre: 611 or consent.
SOC 721 Social Change--Pacific Islands (3) Analysis
of social change; transformation from subsistence societies to
commodified, wage-labor societies with participation in world economy.
SOC 722 Modern Japanese Society (3) Social
and behavioral studies of Japanese values, social organization, and
personality development. Problems of value conflict, political protest,
world role, tradition, and social change. Repeatable once only.
SOC 723 (Alpha) Seminar in Modern Chinese Society
(3) Developmental policies and social change and impact on modern
Chinese social institutions. (B) political change. Focus on politics in
China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Special emphasis on democracy movement and
reunification themes; (C) social and demographic change. Focus on
population, social stratification, gender, and family problems.
Repeatable once in different area. Pre: 356 (or concurrent).
SOC 725 Seminar in Race Relations (3) Comparative
view of how “races” and “ethnic” groups develop and function.
Sociological theories of race relations, assimilation, acculturation,
and pluralism.
SOC 735 Peace/Development Connection (3) Relationships
between peace and development with special emphasis on hunger and
militarism in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. (Cross-listed as POLS 735)
SOC 741 Seminar in Social Structure and the
Individual (3) Intensive study and individual research projects in a
selected topic. Theoretical and methodological issues in relating social
and individual levels of analysis. Recommended: 612.
SOC 751 Social Change in Developing Areas (3) Theories
and available research methods examined for applicability to developing
areas; specific examples from Asia. Repeatable once only. Pre: upper
division course in research methods.
SOC 752 Seminar in Demography (3) Recent
literature and materials for measurement of population change in
developing countries in Asia. Determinants and consequences of policy
and population change. Pre: PPST 650.
SOC 753 Urban Sociology (3) Demographic trends
in urban growth: nature and dimensions of urbanization and urbanism;
ancient, American, and Third World cities; ecological theories of urban
growth; lifestyles.
SOC 754 Seminar in Social Stratification (3) Classical
theories of social class, contemporary developments; crucial research
issues, appropriate methodologies. Repeatable once only. Pre: classified
graduate standing or consent.
SOC 800 Dissertation Research (V) Research
for doctoral dissertation.
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