Asian Americans in Contemporary Society

Sociological analysis of race, ethnicity, racism, immigration, and collective struggles of Asian Americans, frequently overlooked and implicitly posed as a group of people unscathed by discrimination. Negotiation of intra-group identities and mutual resistance, historically and today, to mistreatment through structural and micro-level approaches. Soc 007 Death & Dying. Nothing is more fundamentally human than death. This class will account for how the end of life is socially managed in America, tracing how perceptions of a “good death” and the treatment of the dead have drastically evolved over the last few hundred years. We will explore topics and issues related to death and dying from a sociological perspective, studying how social location (race, class, gender, etc.) affects death and dying, how experts officially classify cause of death, and how particular social institutions (family, law, modern medicine, and religion) influence dying and death.