Sociology 316SS - Self and Society

This course will apply theories from sociological social psychology to explore the mutual relationship between the self and the social. We will learn how identities are constructed and reinforced through social interaction, and how our constructed meanings for identities influence social relations - including our expectations for self versus other and our behavior and emotion within social interaction. We will explore the relationship between self and identity, and the ways people strive to maintain coherence of self given the multitude of identities they often embody. More broadly, we will learn how social interaction can serve to sustain (or transform) the prevailing social structures and culture within a society

Prereq: 8 credits in Sociology.