SOC 4093 — Technology, Power, and Social Change
This course examines the complex and evolving relationship between technology and society. Students will explore how systems like artificial intelligence, digital surveillance, and algorithmic governance emerge from and reinforce social structures, especially in relation to power, inequality, and institutional change. Drawing on sociological theory and real-world case studies, the course emphasizes the social construction of technology and its varied effects on labor, identity, education, and governance.