Sociology (SOCI) 365

Overview

SOCI 365 is designed to acquaint you with sociological theories that will enable you to understand deviant behaviour. The course is also designed to help you build critical, analytical, and practical skills that will help you in other social science courses.

Outline

Unit 1: Social Norms

Unit 2: Deviance

Unit 3: Social Definitions of Deviance

Unit 4: Deviants

Unit 5: Biological Perspectives

Unit 6: Psychological and Psychiatric Perspectives

Unit 7: The Functionalist Perspective

Unit 8: Social Disorganization Perspective

Unit 9: Anomie Perspectives

Unit 10: Culture Conflict

Unit 11: Control/Containment Perspectives

Unit 12: Differential Association Perspectives

Unit 13: Conclusions

Evaluation

To receive credit for SOCI 365, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least "D" (50 percent) and a grade of at least 60 percent on the final examination. The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:

3 Assignments (20% each)	Final Exam	Total
60%	40%	100%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Textbooks

Keiser, R. Lincoln. 1969. The Vice Lords. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Stoddart, Kenneth. 1980. The Sociology of Deviance, Book 1. Richmond, BC: Open Learning Institute.

Other material

The course materials include a student manual.

Challenge for Credit Course Overview

The Challenge for Credit process allows students to demonstrate that they have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university level course.

Full information for the Challenge for Credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.

• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Policy
• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Procedures

Challenge Evaluation

To receive credit for the SOCI 365 challenge registration, you must achieve a grade of at least “C-” (60 percent) on the challenge examination.

Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Course Registration Form

• Challenge for Credit Form