Sociology

This course is a systematic examination of current scholarly debates about vulnerability and care, using gender as analytic lens. Against the dominant liberal premise of individual autonomy, this course explores the fundamental inter-dependence and eco-dependence character of sociality and individuality. Gender is approached from different perspectives ranging from feminism to ecofeminism, including post-structuralist and post-humanist thinkers. The aim of the course is to engage in these scholarly debates in connection to concrete case-studies and the ethical dilemmas derived from them.

This course focuses on the relationship between welfare state development and social change, in the past and the present, in the Netherlands and abroad. It addresses the origins of the welfare state, its various components and their organization, and its transformation in our time in relation to processes of social change.

This course introduces the sociology of work. It is designed to provide an overview while also focusing on selected topics in greater depth. Topics covered include: the nature of work as a social construct; the historical dimension of work in different societies and times; classical theories of Marx, Weber and Durkheim; competing viewpoints of modern organization of work; social stratification of class, gender, race, and ethnicity; unpaid domestic labor; the technical aspects of work; the changing nature of work in the post-industrial knowledge economy, and the meaning of work in contemporary postmodern consumer societies. Please note that this course is reading, writing, and speaking intensive. The instructor also assigns frequent group work, with the expectation of fostering group members to engage in frequent conversation and grasp abstract concepts together.

The goal of this course is to provide Yonsei students an opportunity to learn and think about human rights based on the legacy of Yonsei`s founding value of the Truth and the Freedom. We hope to encourage all students to take up the mantle in continuing this legacy of furthering human rights, pursuing a more just and equitable society. Topics include The Spirit of Yonsei and Human Rights From Historic Perspective, Human Rights: In Between Freedom and Responsibility, Debates on Human Rights and History of Praxix (Civic and Political Rights), Human Rights ad Social Justice, Human Rights and Gender (Gender Equity), Human Rights and Child (Socialization Process), Human Rights and Different Abilities, Human Rights and Labor, Human Rights, Environment and Life, Human Rights and Community, Human Rights and Refugee, Human Rights and Digital Media: Ethics on Expression and Communication, Human Rights and Medicine, Human Rights, Education, and University.

This course introduces the many approaches to counseling and specifically those used by professional counselors to empower people to regain their social functioning. The course examines the many problems people face in their daily lives and how as social workers, well trained to counsel such people, can bring about a change and improvement in such lives. The course will also look at useful techniques in counselling people. Texts: Bandura, SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY; Corey, THEORY AND PRACTICE OF COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY.

This course explores key intersecting dimensions of inequality, particularly class, race/ethnicity, sex/gender, sexuality, disability. It focuses on power relationships and social change, and drawing on theory, research and examples from experience. The course investigates how inequality and power intersect at different levels, including individual; interpersonal/social, institutional, and international.