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Dec 04, 2025
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SOC 425 - Work and Professions
Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4
Analysis of the transformation of the work process in the modern United States from one led by industrial manufacturing to an increasingly de-industrialized workplace of services, product design, advertising and finance.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
Prerequisites: Completion of A1, A2, A3, B4 (all with C- (CR) or better) and all lower division D requirements
Strongly Recommended Preparation: SOC 100
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Identify foundational theories and concepts in sociology about how to define “work” and the various meanings given to work in society.
- Analyze how contemporary labor market changes have impacted lived experiences of workers and occupational or professional structures.
- Explain what unions do and the importance of worker’s rights historically and in the contemporary moment.
- Describe how workplace inequality impacts diverse groups, including race/ethnicity, class, gender, immigration status, and age.
GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Learning Outcomes
- Analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods.
- Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences.
- Demonstrate an understanding of and the ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.
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