May 02, 2024  
2011-2012 
    
2011-2012 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SOC 233 - Sociology of Childhood


Instructor
Taft

This course examines childhood as a complex social category created and reproduced through social relations and social structures, including schools, families, peer relationships and popular culture. In addition to looking at how social processes shape the lives of children, we will discuss children’s agency, exploring how children actively interpret and influence the social world.

Prerequisites & Notes
Provides a distribution credit in the social sciences.