SOC-375 Groups and Organizaitons

Prerequisite: SOC 101 or permission of instructor. This course addresses mid-level social structures focusing on groups and organizations. Together with communities, these patterned social relationships weave the individual into and comprise key elements of the larger society. The structure and dynamics of groups and of various organizational types will be examined through analysis of communication, leadership, cooperation and cohesion, inter-group relations, conflict, power, politics and change. The societal impacts of these meso-level structures will be considered. (Offered every odd-year fall term).(3)