The discipline of sociology and the sociological perspective as a tool for understanding society and culture, including the interpersonal, intergroup, and international dimensions of social life.

A general introduction to the study of social problems in areas such as deviance, social inequality, social change, and American institutions.

Explores gender identity, gender roles, and gender social structures using the sociological perspective.

Examines sport as a social institution, focusing on cultural values related to sport, stratification within and among sports, and issues of power and inequality pertaining to sport.

Examines childhood as a social construction, focusing on children as social actors who both shape and are shaped by social institutions such as family, school, and the media.

Examines the cultural construction of gender as well as the structural hierarchies of wealth, power, and prestige linked to gender.