2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog

SO 254 Society & Economic Change

Major socioeconomic developments in twenty-first-century capitalism (e.g., consumer culture, global labor market, media empires) are studied. The persistence of inequality and poverty, fragmentation of family and community, unhealthy constructions of self-image, and other social problems are explained in terms of these developments. 

A prerequisite to SW 266

Credits

3