Home

Courses

SOCI 313/343 Sociology of Religion

Nature and field of the sociology of religion; Sociological, anthropological and psychologicalperspectives in religious phenomena; Mutual interaction of religion and other social institutions; Theoretical and substantive content of the sociology of religion....

SOCI 312/342 Population Studies

The scope of population studies; History of world population, its growth and relation to development; Elements of demography; Population: composition, structure and characteristics; Population Theories: Malthusian Population Theory, Demographic Transition...

SOCI 311/447 Sociology of Tourism and Tourism Development in Ghana

Evolution and development of tourism; Tourism as a global phenomenon; Motivations, characteristics and destinations of tourists; Motivations to receive tourists: characteristics and national policies of recipient countries; Impact of tourism on recipient...

SOCI 310/340 Culture and Development

The nexus between Culture and Development; Definition of culture, its attributes and components; Cultural values, attitudes and development in comparative perspectives; Kinship systems and development; Land tenure systems; Intangible assets in development;...

SOCI 309/339 Urban Sociology

Concept of sociology as applied to the urban society; theoretical perspectives; basic structure of urban life; Development of the city; Industrialization and urbanization; Urbanism as a way of life; Urbanism and Politics, Religion; Economics, Family;...

SOCI 308/338 Poverty and Rural Development

Imperatives of African rural development; Development and underdevelopment theory and comparative perspectives; Globalization and the political economy of rural poverty; Rural poverty indicators; The roles of the state in rural development; Social...

SOCI 307/337 Rural Sociology

Historical overview of Rural Sociology; Conceptual problems in Rural Sociology; Basic structure of rural societies; Settlement patterns; Family arrangements; Politics; Religion; Health; Education; Economy; Migration and rural communities; Social change and...

SOCI 306/326 Quantitative Methods in Social Research

Populations and samples; frequency tables and graphs; measures of central tendency (mode, median, mean); describing the variability of distributions; Introduction to inference: the normal Curve; distribution of sampling means; standard error of estimates;...

SOCI 305/325 Research Me thods

Importance of social research in the Social Sciences and Sociology; Proposal writing: statement of the problem, objectives, hypotheses, operationalization of key concepts, Literature Review; Types of research; quantitative and qualitative research paradigms,...

SOCI 304/324 Groups, Organizations and the Individual

Group dynamics from a social psychological perspective: intra-group process; the dimension of group structure; communication; role; influence and power structure; collective influence on individual behaviour; de-individuation and the spread of group effects;...

Pages