SOC 5690 - 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:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:

Students will build synthetically and innovatively upon pre-existing foundations in sociology and criminology through an advanced treatment of the study of risk.
Students will expand their understanding of social theory and its application in everyday life.
Students will understand key theories in the sociology of risk and apply them to a broad variety of cultural phenomena, including crime.
Students will understand the ways that risk an social responses to risk shape life and the world around the person.