2010-2011 Academic Catalog 
    
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2010-2011 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SOC 250 - Culture, Consumption and Class in Local and Global Contexts

Type of Course: Lecture, Discussion
Focuses on political, cultural and ethnic aspects of consumption. Emphasizes how people and groups define themselves through symbols in consumer products. Examines the interplay between economic markets and cultural identities, local and global processes, and consumption and cultural strategies to discover the consumer subcultures. Students conduct a small ethnographic project on consumer pattern, product or culture.

Cross Listed: COMM 275 , IDCE 303 

Instructor: Ms. Bhachu

When Offered: Offered every other year

Faculty: Parminder Bhachu, Ph.D. - Professor of Sociology