Individual Rights and Responsibilities in Social Groups

Analyze and interpret diverse cultural practices, traditions, and institutions in the United States and world societies across time using varied sociological resources.

Analyze how primary and secondary group memberships, dynamics, and social functions evolve across different stages of the human lifespan.

Explain how social roles, normative expectations, and competing statuses generate role strain and role conflict, and evaluate strategies to resolve them.

Identify and analyze the reciprocal rights and responsibilities individuals hold within primary and secondary social groups.

Demonstrate and evaluate democratic procedures, mediation strategies, and deliberative approaches to managing disagreements and solving conflicts in social institutions.

Design, execute, and evaluate empirical sociological research on critical structural challenges and institutional inequities in contemporary society.