Human Society and Social Behavior

This course will help us become knowledgeable and thoughtful about human society and social behavior. Sociology in general and this course specifically is about the study of human social behavior. This course is especially concerned with the ways that digital technology shapes social interaction today. This course also provides grounding in the sociological approach, including its history, research, theory, and problems, and what sociologists have come to know about values, norms, behavior, beliefs, and outcomes within societies, among social groups, and in social interactions, its theories and research methods. In addition to our daily Topic Talks, we will have the opportunity to read, see, discuss, and participate in a rich variety of material that are sociologically and personally challenging. The main goal of this course is to produce a group research project that looks at social media platforms and their effects on social interaction.