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Notre Dame OpenCourseware (OCW) offers free educational resources for the course "Understanding Societies" in the Department of Sociology. Sociology is the science – and the art – of understanding social relationships, human behavior, and the society that we live in. As a comprehensive introduction to the discipline, the goals of Understanding Societies are to stimulate your fascination with sociology and to encourage you to recognize sociology’s practical value, as well as its unique perspective.


Globalization

UNDERSTANDING SOCIETIES

Jessica Collett, Ph.D.

Sociology Department
University of Notre Dame

Course Structure: 75 minute classes, two times a week

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Course Description

Sociology is the science – and the art – of understanding social relationships, human behavior, and the society that we live in. As a comprehensive introduction to the discipline, the goals of this course are to stimulate your fascination with sociology and to encourage you to recognize sociology’s practical value, as well as its unique perspective.

Citation: Collett, J., Collett, J. (2009, April 02). Understanding Societies. Retrieved February 16, 2012, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/sociology/understanding-societies.
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