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SOCI 290: Social Problems (Rev. C3–C4)
Sociology 290: Social Problems is a three-credit course designed to introduce students to the study of social problems: their definition, their dimensions and interconnections, their effects, and strategies for alleviating them.
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Unit 1: Defining Social Problems
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Unit 2: Inequality as Social Problem
Unit 3: Individual Social Problems and Common Sense
Unit 4: Social Problems and Social Institutions—Sociological Theory
Unit 5: Global Population and Global Social Problems
