Sociology 275 - Pandemic! A Sociology of Disease, Disaster, and Death
Pandemic!
Spring
2025
01
4.00
Timothy Recuber
W 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM; M 3:05 PM - 4:20 PM
Smith College
SOC-275-01-202503
Burton 209
trecuber@smith.edu
This course is an attempt to make sense of the COVID- 19 pandemic using a variety of sociological perspectives and readings. It casts a wide intellectual net to help us understand the sociology of this pandemic, and of human societies’ relations to disease, disaster, and death more broadly. In this class, students are asked to analyze their own experiences with COVID, the mass media’s coverage of the virus, and the government’s response to it in critical, sociological writing using a number of different theoretical perspectives. Prerequisite: SOC 101.