Committing Sociology (2300)

The Undergraduate Calendar describes Committing Sociology as a class that examines “sociology as a way of thinking, theorizing, and analyzing. Students will be required to develop questions about the social world: what it means to examine the world sociologically, what it means to reflect critically on those assumptions, ways of seeing, and the commitments that come with being members of society.” Shannon Muhammed’s paper discusses and contrasts Western death rituals with ones practiced in other cultures around the world as a textual analysis of Caitlin Doughty’s From Here to Eternity.