SOCL 350 - Social Theories of Race and Class

Credit(s): 3
Prerequisite(s): An intermediate level course in Sociology.
This seminar examines race and class consciousness in modern society. Among the questions it seeks to answer are the following: How do race and class consciousness develop? What is the relationship of social existence to social consciousness? In what ways has industrialization affected race and class consciousness? What is the relationship between class consciousness and race consciousness? These and other critical questions will be examined by analyzing such thinkers as Spencer, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, DuBois, Harold Cruse, Anthony Giddnes, Robert Blauner, Karl Mannheim and E. P. Thompson.

Only open to students in the B.A. Liberal Arts and Sciences program.