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• RSO 315: Sociology Of Poverty

  3.00 Credits

  Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

  
  The dynamics of poverty; social, psychological, and cultural causes of poverty; effects of poetry on personality; anti-poverty programs; and the problems of absolute poverty and relative poverty in today's society. Prerequisite:    RSO 201
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• RSO 321: Political Sociology

  3.00 Credits

  Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

  
  Interrelationship of politics and society. Connection between social, economic, and political power; social correlates of political systems; comparison of democratic and authoritarian political systems; politics of mass society; political socialization, review of voting studies, class, race, and politics in contemporary U.S. Cross-cultural analysis of political institutions. Prerequisite:    None
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• RSO 322: Sociology Culture and Personality

  3.00 Credits

  Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

  
  Analytical descriptive studies of the relationship between culture and personality. Effect of culture on the individual personality structure and normative behavior patterns, and the influence the cultural change has on behavior.
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• RSO 325: Basic Methods of Social Research (I)

  3.00 Credits

  Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

  
  (Information Literacy Intensive Course). Consideration of quantitative and qualitative methods of social research. Emphasis on research design and hands-on experience with data collection and analysis. Survey research, secondary data analysis, non-intrusive research methods, and participant observation studies. Offered: Fall Term.
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• RSO 326: Social Statistics

  3.00 Credits

  Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

  
  Statistical methods and their applicability to social data. The collection, assembly, and tabulation of findings; measures of central tendency and dispersion; elementary tests of significance and simple correlation's; evaluation of statistical data. Offered: Spring Term. The distance Learning version of RSO 326 to be offered as an "On-line" course in which more than 80% of the instruction will be completed outside of the classroom.
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• RSO 332: African American Family

  3.00 Credits

  Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

  
  Historical, social, cultural, psychological, and economic study of the African-American family.
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• RSO 350: Cultural Language & Society (G)

  3.00 Credits

  Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

  
  (Global Studies Intensive Course) The general theory of the "interaction" of language with society, behavior, and culture with special references to descriptive and historical linguistics; the relevance of linguistics to cultural studies, and sociolinguistics.Prerequisite: None (Social Science General Education Course).
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• RSO 366: Peoples Cultures Africa

  3.00 Credits

  Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

  
  The people of Africa, their ethnic and trial divisions, and their cultural behavior. Prerequisite: None. (Social Science General Education Course).
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• RSO 370: Crime and Social Order (W)

  3.00 Credits

  Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

  
  (Writing Intensive Course). History of diverse schools of thought on the causes of crime and contemporary theories of crime. Deviance theories and their social implications; law as an instrument of power and social control; cross cultural studies of crime; the relationship between economic and political institutions and crime; and crime and social stratification. Prerequisite:    RSO 201 or RSO 204
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• RSO 371: Juvenile Offenders

  3.00 Credits

  Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

  
  Analysis, description, and case studies of legal rights, treatment, and rehabilitation of juveniles who have been adjudicated "delinquent". A thorough examination of approaches to dealing with juvenile offenders and the processes and procedures in juvenile courts. (may be taken for four semester hours of credit when laboratory sessions are available at Glen Mills School or elsewhere). Offered: Spring Term. Prerequisite:    RSO 201 or RSO 204
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