Jun 04, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book

SOC 340 - Sociology of Childhood and Child Welfare

3 Credits
Offered Spring
Students will learn about childhood as a phase of social life actively constructed through socialization processes in the context of structural inequalities of age, race, class, gender, sexuality, and nationality. The course covers the various aspects of childhood including peer culture as well as issues related to child welfare including poverty, children’s health, child abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption.

Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): SOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology   
Core Curriculum Attribute(s): Diversity, Power, and Resistance History and Social Science