Mar 28, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22 [Archived Catalog]

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SOC 4690 - Crime, Risk, and Governance


Upper-level undergraduate seminar designed to survey an emergent area of inquiry, the sociology of risk, in its multiple and varied forms, including the rise of world “risk society,” actuarialism, governmentatilty, and edgework. Course focuses upon how individuals render comprehensible a world of risk; how these perceptions and experiences are shaping and shaped by social life; and how we construct justice and state governance in such contexts.

Requisites: 9 Hours in SOC including 1000
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • To build synthetically and innovatively upon pre-existing foundations in sociology and criminology through an advanced treatment of the study of risk.
  • To expand your understanding of social theory and its application in everyday life.
  • To understand key theories in the sociology of risk and apply them to a broad variety of cultural phenomenon, including crime.
  • To understand the ways that risk and social responses to risk shape your life and the late modern world around you.



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