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.
METHODS SOCIAL RESEARCH-DISC
Prerequisites: SOCI UN1000
Discussion section for SOCI UN3010: METHODS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
- W 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
- R 3:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Hyungoo Lee
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Instructor:
Ludovico Genovese
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INDIVIDUAL SENIOR PROJECTS
Prerequisites: Meets senior requirement. Instructor permission required. The instructor will supervise the writing of long papers involving some form of sociological research and analysis.
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Instructor:
Deborah Becher
CULPA: 8
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Elizabeth Bernstein
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Maricarmen Hernandez
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Debra Minkoff
CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info -
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Mignon R Moore
CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info -
Instructor:
Jonathan Rieder
CULPA: 17
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Instructor:
Angela Simms
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Amy Zhou
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Instructor:
Randa B Serhan
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Instructor:
Gillian Gualtieri
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Power, Politics & Society
POWER, POLITICS & SOCIETY
Power, Politics, and Society
introduces students to the field of political sociology, a subfield within sociology that is deeply engaged in the study of power in formal and diffuse forms. Using sociological theories and current events from the US and around the world, this course is designed to help students analyze their social worlds, and understand the significance of the old adage, “everything is political.”
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Randa B Serhan
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
LAW & SOCIETY
Examines how people use law, how law affects people, and how law develops, using social scientific research. Covers law in everyday life; legal and social change; legal subjects such as citizens and corporations, and the legitimacy of law. Recommended for pre-law and social-science majors. No required prerequisites or previous knowledge.
- TR 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Deborah Becher
CULPA: 8
h-index: 4
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SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Prerequisites: One introductory course in Sociology suggested. Social movements and the theories social scientists use to explain them, with emphasis on contemporary American activism. Cases include the Southern civil rights movement, Black Lives Matter, contemporary feminist mobilizations, LGBTQ activism, immigrant rights and more recent forms of grassroots politics.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew S Anastasi
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Race, Ethnicity, and Education in the US
RACE ETHNICITY EDUCATION
This course explores the sociology and history of race and racism, ethnicity and ethnocentrism, and unequal access to education in the United States through readings, films, audio, and multimedia. Experiences of students in public and private K-12 schools, colleges and universities, and alternative and informal educational settings will be considered. Movements by students and communities to fight discrimination and injustice, demand equal opportunities and resources, and to realize the promise of education as a means of achieving personal and collective liberation will also be examined. Case studies may include: boarding schools for Indigenous children; Reconstruction-era public schools; the settlement house movement; Freedom Schools of the Civil Rights Movement; the Black Panther Party’s educational initiatives; community-controlled schools; Black, Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Ethnic Studies programs; urban educational reform, public school closures, and charter schools; the school-to-prison pipeline; standardized testing and advanced placement courses; and more.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew S Anastasi
Info - 3 points
SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER
Prerequisites: One introductory course in Sociology suggested. Examination of factors in gender identity that are both universal (across time, culture, setting) and specific to a social context. Social construction of gender roles in different settings, including family, work, and politics. Attention to the role of social policies in reinforcing norms or facilitating change.
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Gillian Gualtieri
Info - 3 points
Surveillance
SURVEILLANCE
Surveillance has become a ubiquitous term that either conjures images of George Orwell’s
1984
, the popular series
Black Mirror,
or is dismissed as an inconvenience and a concern of only those who engage in criminal activity or have something to hide. Using sociological theories of power, biopower, racialization, and identity formation,
Surveillance
explores the various ways we are monitored by state authorities and corporations and our role in perpetuating the system (un)wittingly.
- M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Randa B Serhan
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
HOW RACE GETS UNDER OUR SKIN: THE SOCIOL
RACE, HEALTH, AND BIOMEDI
One of the glaring forms of inequalities that persists today is the race-based gap in access to health care, quality of care, and health outcomes. This course examines how institutionalized racism and the structure of health care contributes to the neglect and sometimes abuse of racial and ethnic minorities. Quite literally, how does race affect one’s life chances? This course covers a wide range of topics related to race and health, including: racial inequalities in health outcomes, biases in medical institutions, immigration status and health, racial profiling in medicine, and race in the genomic era.
- M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Domonique M Reed
Info - 4 points
Race, Nation, and American Food Culture
RACE NATION AMER FOOD CUL
Uses theories of race, ethnicity, and nation to ask questions about boundaries, categories, and distinctions about the American food system. Addresses the following questions: How are race, ethnicity, and national identity shaped by patterns of migration? How do processes like multiculturalism, panethnicity, and blending change the meanings and salience of these terms? How do symbols and systems of authenticity shape meaning-making around ethnoracial and national inequality? What does food have to do with race/ethnicity/nation? How are cultural products, like cuisine, markers of broader systems of inequality? How do these systems of inequality affect access to food, what we eat, the workplace, and racialized bodies? How does food serve as a marker of distinction in terms of race, ethnicity, nation, class, and gender?
This course encourages students to read broadly in literatures of race, ethnicity, nation, migration and engage theories and ideas in conversation and debate across literatures to develop analytical strategies for understanding the complex landscape of ethnoracial and national inequality in the United States. By focusing analysis on cultural themes and specifically the case of American food culture, students are encouraged to question the utility and applicability of the abstract theories we encounter as well as the contributions and complications of each theory in relation to the others we discuss through a common language of cultural products, most specifically, the accessible discourse of food in American life.
- W 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Gillian Gualtieri
Info - 4 points
ADV TPCS IMMIGRATN INEQUAL I
Examines processes of immigrant incorporation in the U.S. and other advanced democracies, with a focus on how immigration intersects with categorical inequalities (such as citizenship, social class, race, ethnicity, gender, and religion) in major institutional realms. Under instructor's supervision, students conduct a substantial research project related to course themes.
- W 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Randa B Serhan
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
SOCIOLOGY OF THE BODY
This seminar examines the ways in which the body is discursively constituted, and itself serves as the substratum for social life. Key questions include: How are distinctions made between normal and pathological bodies, and between the psychic and somatic realms? How do historical forces shape bodily experience? How do bodies that are racialized, gendered, and classed offer resistance to social categorization?
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Bernstein
CULPA: 27 Info - 4 points
Housing Equity and the American Dream
HOUSING EQUITY AMERICAN D
The American Dream of owning a home has long represented an ideal of American equity. The ideal screams of opportunity and meritocracy: no matter how poor one begins life, as long as they work and save, they can enjoy the security and safety of home. To many, this ideal gives them hope, for they can see possibility for their achievement. To others, the ideal feels like a farce, for they rightly anticipate facing countless barriers to achieving that dream.
This course examines challenges, contradictions, and ironies of American housing equity. We study ways in which the ideal of single-family home ownership has directly led to excluding large portions of the population from secure housing. We examine why and how many Americans can be deeply committed to equality and freedom and still perpetuate inequalities in their housing choices. We examine how people at the bottom who understand well the barriers they face still manage to survive, invent, and struggle to achieve dignity and equity in their housing.
The course examines core issues of housing equity in America historically and in the present. The course primarily offers a sociological perspective on housing. But we will also read work and bring in perspectives from geography, history, urban planners, and others. In addition, we will also engage with work by journalists, which represents one way that the multi-disciplinary issues of housing are connected in narratives intended for a wider audience than more scholarly products. While we draw on work from various perspectives, we will focus on developing a sociological lens to understand housing.
- R 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Deborah Becher
CULPA: 8
h-index: 4
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INDIVIDUAL STUDY I
Prerequisites: open only to qualified majors in the department; the director of undergraduate studies permission is required. An opportunity for research under the direction of an individual faculty member. Students intending to write a year-long senior thesis should plan to register for C3996 in the spring semester of their senior year and are strongly advised to consult the undergraduate studies as they plan their programs.
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Instructor:
Deborah Becher
CULPA: 8
h-index: 4
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Instructor:
Elizabeth Bernstein
CULPA: 27 Info -
Instructor:
Maricarmen Hernandez
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Instructor:
Debra Minkoff
CULPA: 6 h-index: 17 Info -
Instructor:
Mignon R Moore
CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info -
Instructor:
Jonathan Rieder
CULPA: 17
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Instructor:
Angela Simms
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Instructor:
Amy Zhou
Info - 1-6 points