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2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

SOC 307 - The Ideal Society and State

3 credits
Prerequisites: SOC 101, or ANT 111, or SOC/ANT 113, or PSC 101
What is an ideal society like? Explores from an anthropological perspective different political systems in an attempt to answer the following questions: 1) Are there just societies? 2) Why search for Utopia and what is the significance of utopian thinking?) Where is the focus of political power and how does it change? 4) How do state societies evolve? 5) What is a nation? Cross-listed as ANT 307