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Oct 31, 2024
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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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SOC 275 - Poverty and Social Welfare
This course examines how Americans, both in the distant and recent past, have viewed the poor and conceptualized the problem of poverty. It also investigates the relevant cultural, economic and political factors that help to explain U.S. social policy development. The roles that social activists, intellectuals, and social welfare specialists have played in framing poverty as a social problem and in raising awareness about poverty are also explored. Finally, the course investigates how poor people have worked collectively to respond to their circumstances and to the policies that have shaped their lives.
Prerequisite: SOC 100 or SOC 136
1 semester 3 credits.
Fall
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