THE SOCIAL WORLD - DISC
Mandatory discussion section if you are registered for UN1000 The Social World
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AI in Society
AI in Society takes a social science approach to understanding the rise of AI and its uses in various educational, cultural, and work settings. The course will train students in how to critically engage with AI in these settings through a variety of means, including by conducting interviews with workers experiencing AI-driven workplace changes, auditing algorithmic systems for bias, and analyzing AI representations in popular culture. Assessments include a closed-notes midterm exam and a creative final project involving an original audit study. Students with any level of technical experience are encouraged to enroll.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gil Eyal
CULPA: 15
h-index: 26
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METHODS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
Prerequisites: SOCI UN1000 The Social World or Instructor Permission Required for all Sociology majors. Introductory course in social scientific research methods. Provides a general overview of the ways sociologists collect information about social phenomena, focusing on how to collect data that are reliable and applicable to our research questions.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gerard Torrats-Espinosa
h-index: 6 Info - 4 points
The Politics of Work
In this class we will examine the politics, organization, and experience of work. In the first three weeks we will get our bearings and consider some basic (but difficult!) questions about work, including: What counts as work and who counts as a worker? How important are our jobs to our survival in the world, and what makes for a good or bad job? In this section you will start thinking about and analyzing your own work experiences. In weeks four and five we will read what sociology’s founders had to say about work, and consider some of the important shifts to work that accompanied industrialization. Then we will turn to 20th century transformations, including the rise of the service economy and worker-customer relations, changes in forms of managerial control and worker responses to these changes, globalization, and the proliferation of precarious work. Finally, we will turn to examining gender, class and race in labor markets and on the job, paid and unpaid reproductive labor, the construction of selves at work, and the job of fashion modeling. Throughout the course we will examine how the sociology of work is bound up with other key institutions including gender, race, class, and the family.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Teresa Sharpe
CULPA: 14
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The Organization of Diversity
This course examines diversity at the societal, organizational, and individual levels. At the societal level, for example: How to measure the health of an economy? Growth in GDP is the current dominant metric. But organizational diversity might be a better measure if health is understood as the ability to adapt to sudden changes in the environment. What is the relationship between wealth and diverse principles of worth? At the organizational level: Under what conditions does racial and gender diversity contribute to higher team performance? Can a complex organization be managed according to diverse principles of evaluation? Moving to the individual level, how do we manage the multiple presentations of self in a diverse society?
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
David Stark
CULPA: 15
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h-index: 48
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SEMINAR - PROBLEMS OF LAW & SOCIETY
SEM-PROBLEMS OF LAW & SOC
This course addresses basic contemporary social issues from several angles of vision: from the perspective of scientists, social scientists, legal scholars, and judges. Through the use of case studies, students will examine the nature of theories, evidence, facts, proof, and argument as found in the work of scientists and scholars who have engaged the substantive issues presented in the course.
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Jonathan Cole
CULPA: 4
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h-index: 34
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Social Stratification Among Asian Americ
Social Stratification Asi
This seminar examines social stratification through the lens of Asian American experiences. Social stratification refers to the unequal distribution of valued resources, such as income, wealth, education, and power, and the processes by which these resources are allocated across individuals, groups, and generations.
We will explore how the broader patterns of inequality and mobility in the United States intersect with the histories and social positions of Asian Americans. Topics include income and wealth inequality, educational attainment and occupational mobility, immigration and inter-generational mobility, racialization and stereotypes (e.g., the “model minority" and “perpetual foreigner" narratives), gender and family dynamics, neighborhood segregation, and political and civic incorporation. We will also consider how globalization, transnational migration, and the future of work shape opportunities and constraints for different Asian American communities.
Senior Thesis Seminar II
This seminar is a continuation of the course from last semester (SOCI3988). It will culminate in you completing your thesis. Whereas last semester you concentrated on posing interesting, important, and feasible research questions, as well as how to conduct data collection, this semester you will learn how: to troubleshoot challenges and ethical issues in collecting data (i.e. data collection), translate your data into findings and conclusions (i.e. data analysis), orient your findings in an existing conversation (i.e. revising a literature review and introduction/hook), and write to persuade your audience and readers of your argument (i.e. write persuasively).
Instructor permission is required to join the course. Please note this course is the second part in a two part sequence, you must first take SOCI 3988 before you can enroll in SOCI 3989.
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tara Gonsalves
Info - 4 points
THE UNIVERSITY IN AMER LIFE
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jonathan Cole
CULPA: 4
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h-index: 34
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SOCIOLOGY OF EXPERTISE
A new approach to the classical problems of the sociology of knowledge - the social determination of knowledge and the social roles of those who create, possess, and distribute knowledge. This new approach rejects the current boundaries of inquiry and reunifies them as a network of practices straddling the boundaries of science and the professions.
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Gil Eyal
CULPA: 15
h-index: 26
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EDUCATION AND INEQUALITY
The goal of the course is to introduce students to foundational texts, theories, and research in the field of sociology of education. In particular, we will focus on the role of schooling in social stratification and social reproduction in the United States.
This course is organized by broad topic and theme. We will begin with a discussion of the purpose of schooling before moving into a discussion of some theoretical perspectives on the role of schooling in our society. Next, we will discuss inequality in schooling across multiple socio-demographic categories, including social class, race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and religion (in addition to inequality at the intersection of multiple social categories). By the end of this course, you should have a strong foundation in research on education’s role in society.
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Marissa Thompson
Info - 4 points
CREATIVITY/TECH:WAR & COMMERCE
This course examines the ways that technological shifts have catalyzed innovation and social change in human societies. The focus is on the social basis for creativity. Analysis centers on the conflicts, disruptions and tensions that emerge in society when new and/or competing technologies are introduced. Students will explore two substantive spheres of social life. The first is war. Throughout recorded history, participants have sought to garner competitive advantages in battle via technological innovation. We look at several moments in which the development of a particular innovation helped bring about massive societal change. The second focus is on commerce. The class will examine the impact of digital technologies on those who work in creative industries undergoing transformation via technology and diffusion of tech-inspired ideas. The learning objectives for students are: • To situate technology within a wider social and historical context. • To consider creativity as a social activity, not only as individual aptitude. • To place the contemporary period of so-called “fast paced technological progress” within a sociological framework of change and innovation.
- T 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Sudhir A Venkatesh
CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
METHODS WORKSHOP
Introducing students to a series of methods, methodological discussions, and questions relevant to the focus of the Masters program: urban sociology and the public interest. Three methodological perspectives will frame discussions: analytical sociology, small-n methods, and actor-network theory.
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Yao Lu
h-index: 25 Info - 4 points
THESIS SEMINAR II
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
- W 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Adam Reich
CULPA: 7
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Instructor:
Ryan Hagen
Info - 3 points
Intro Social Data Analysis II
Corequisites: SOCI G4076 This course examines quantitative methods used in sociology. Students will need to have completed SOCI GR4074 before enrolling. The approach taken in this class is highly applied with an emphasis on developing practical skills for data analysis. We begin with a focus on linear models, discussing the regression model as a tool for data description and causal analysis. We then introduce generalized linear models and conclude by reviewing some special applied including weighting and missing data. Data analysis for the course will be conducted in Stata which is available for download from the department of Sociology.
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gerard Torrats-Espinosa
h-index: 6 Info - 4 points
ISRAELI SOCIETY: SPEC TOPICS
- R 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Yinon Cohen
CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 33 Info - 3 points
Reckoning with Asian America
It took the mass murder of six Asian women in Atlanta on March 16, 2021 to draw national attention to what Asian Americans have been warning about since the wake of Covid-19: a surge in anti-Asian violence and hate. Since the onset of the coronavirus, 1 in 8 Asian American adults experienced a hate incident, and 1 in 7 Asian American women worry all the time about being victimized, reflecting an under-recognized legacy of anti-Asian violence, bigotry, misogyny, and discrimination in the United States that dates back more than 150 years. Drawing on research and readings from the social sciences, this course links the past to the present in order to understand this legacy, and how it continues to affect Asian Americans today.
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jennifer Lee
CULPA: 2 Wikipedia Info - 4 points
QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
The course is designed to introduce PhD students in Sociology to basic techniques for collecting, interpreting, analyzing, reporting, and theorizing from interview and observational data. Through instructional and exemplary readings and practical exercises, students will learn the theory and practice behind inductive and abductive field-based analysis, with an aim toward developing or refining an ongoing research project.
- T 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Tey Meadow
h-index: 8 Info - 4 points
MPHIL THESIS WRITING SEMINAR
MPHIL THESIS WRITING SMR
- R 10:10 a.m.-noon
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Instructor:
Barbara J Kiviat
Info - 4 points
Globalization and Diffusion
This course introduces students to the literature on globalization and the diffusion of culture and institutions. It covers literatures in sociology and political science as well as some anthropology and history. This course will not discuss economic, financial, or migratory globalization in depth. In the first part, we will survey the major theories of the global diffusion of culture and institutions: world polity theory, global field theory, the policy diffusion literature, etc. In the second part, we discuss select topics, such as the role of local power relations in diffusion processes or the consequences of diffusion for patterns of cultural similarity and difference across the world.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andreas Wimmer
Wikipedia h-index: 41 Info - 4 points