SOCIAL THEORY
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. Required for all sociology majors. Prerequisite: at least one sociology course of the instructor's permission. Theoretical accounts of the rise and transformations of modern society in the19th and 20th centuries. Theories studied include those of Adam Smith, Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Max Weber, Roberto Michels. Selected topics: individual, society, and polity; economy, class, and status: organization and ideology; religion and society; moral and instrumental action.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Andrew S Anastasi
Info - 4 points
Social Theory- DISC
SOCIAL THEORY- DISC
Discussion section for Social Theory (SOCI UN3000).
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Faculty
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Social Theory- DISC
SOCIAL THEORY- DISC
Discussion section for Social Theory (SOCI UN3000).
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h-index: 37 Info - 0 points
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 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Randa B Serhan
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
METHODS SOCIAL RESEARCH-DISC
Prerequisites: SOCI UN1000
Discussion section for SOCI UN3010: METHODS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
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METHODS SOCIAL RESEARCH-DISC
Prerequisites: SOCI UN1000
Discussion section for SOCI UN3010: METHODS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
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Faculty
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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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Deborah Becher
CULPA: 8
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Elizabeth Bernstein
CULPA: 27 Info -
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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
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
Race, Ethnicity, and Education in the US
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Discussion section for SOCI BC3248: Race, Ethnicity, and Education in the US
- T 4:10 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Structural Determinants of Health
STRUCTURAL DETERMNTS OF H
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the underlying health disparities that exist in the United States more apparent. The traditional biomedical model places the responsibility of these disparities on the choices that an individual makes. The model assumes that one’s smoking, eating and exercising habits are based on personal choice. Therefore, the prevalence of morbidities such as high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes is the result of an individual’s poor decisions. This course will explore how the conditions under which individuals live, work, play and pray impact their health outcomes. Collectively these conditions are referred to as the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) and often they reveal the systemic inequalities that disproportionately affect marginalized communities. This course will also call upon the need for a paradigm shift from the “Social” Determinants of Health to the “Structural” Determinants of Health. This shift is in recognition that it is the underlying structures (laws, material infrastructure) that impact health outcomes. The development of the SDoH has challenged health care providers to look beyond the biomedical model that stresses an individual’s behavior as the main predictor of adverse health conditions. Instead the SDoH focuses on an “upstream” approach that examines the underlying systemic and racial inequalities that impact communities of color and their health outcomes. An analysis that focuses upstream reveals that government policies and social structure are at the core of health disparities. Through the lens of New York City and its health systems, this course will cover a wide range of topics related to race and health, including: racial inequalities in housing and homelessness, biases in medical institutions, and the unconscious bias that lead providers to have racialized perception of an individual’s pain tolerance. In addition to exposing these inequalities the course will also provide innovative solutions that seek to mitigate these barriers including: home visiting programs, medical respite programs for homeless patients and food as medicine in health care systems. Students will demonstrate their knowledge through individual writing, and class discussion. The course revolves around important readings, lectures, and podcasts that illustrates how one’s class position and the color of one’s skin can influence the access to healthcare one has as well as their experie
- TR 6:10 p.m.-7:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maati Momplaisir
Info - 3 points
MUSIC, RACE & IDENTITY
Analysis of the complex relationship among race, art, organizations, economics, social movements and identity. Emphasis is on shifting conceptions of identity and changing roles of race and racism in the spirituals, gospel music, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, rocknroll, soul music, Hip Hop and contemporary popular music.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jonathan Rieder
CULPA: 17
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SOC OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE
Emphasizes foundations and development of black communities post-1940, and mechanisms in society that create and maintain racial inequality. Explores notions of identity and culture through lenses of gender, class and sexual orientation, and ideologies that form the foundation of black politics. Primarily lecture with some discussion.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mignon R Moore
CULPA: 9 h-index: 17 Info - 3 points
LAW & SOCIETY
LAW AND 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 prerequisites or previous knowledge required.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Deborah Becher
CULPA: 8
h-index: 4
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Transnationalism, Citizenship, and Belon
TRANSNTNL, CITIZEN, BELON
Transnationalism, Citizenship, and Belonging covers the myriad ways that transnationalism is experienced in both South to North and South to South migrations. Transnationalism and its contenders, globalization and nationalism, will be placed within a broader discussion of belonging based on sociological theories of citizenship, politics of exclusion, and boundary-making.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Randa B Serhan
CULPA: 2 Info - 3 points
MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
Examines the ways sociologists have studied the field of medicine and experiences of health and illness. We cannot understand topics of health and illness by only looking at biological phenomena; we must consider a variety of social, political, economic, and cultural forces. Uses sociological perspectives and methods to understand topics such as: unequal patterns in health and illness; how people make sense of and manage illness; the ways doctors and patients interact with each other; changes in the medical profession, health policies and institutions; social movements around health; and how some behaviors but not others become understood as medical problems. Course is geared towards pre-med students as well as those with general interests in medicine, health and society.
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 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dominic T Walker
Info - 4 points
Social Closure and Inequality
SOCIAL CLOSURE AND INEQUA
This class will examine the social phenomenon of exclusion. Attempts to understand the social behavior of creating insiders and outsiders is a hallmark in Sociology. How does it happen? What purpose does it serve? Who decides who is in and who is out? While some forms of social closure, like segregation, are more well known, there are numerous mechanisms of social exclusion people and groups employ in the social world. Additionally, forms of exclusion do not always come from the top down as a form of domination, but sometimes from the bottom up, with the goal of resource redistribution. We will study these different forms of exclusion along with the theorized aims these forms of closure seek to achieve to get a more comprehensive picture of how social exclusion is used in the social world.
- MW 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dominic T Walker
Info - 3 points
SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE
Prerequisites: SOCI BC1003 or equivalent social science course and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Drawing examples from popular music, religion, politics, race, and gender, explores the interpretation, production, and reception of cultural texts and meanings. Topics include aesthetic distinction and taste communities, ideology, power, and resistance; the structure and functions of subcultures; popular culture and high culture; and ethnography and interpretation.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jonathan Rieder
CULPA: 17
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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.
- R 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Randa B Serhan
CULPA: 2 Info - 4 points
Latin American Lives
LATIN AMERICAN LIVES
This seminar explores how broad trends that shape contemporary Latin American societies intertwine with the specificities of people’s multilayered local realities. Through ethnographic narratives of the everyday lives of Latin Americans, we will learn how life histories and narrative accounts offer windows for understanding inequality and persistence in the face of the seemingly insurmountable obstacles of an unequal world. Themes covered include precarious work, migration and displacement, housing, racism and state violence, gender and family, health, environmental devastation, and social movements. Cases are drawn from across the Americas, including: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Nicaragua.
- M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Instructor:
Maricarmen Hernandez
Info - 4 points
Black Americans and Development Politics
BLACK AMER & DEVELOP POLI
This seminar explores theories regarding race/racism, gendered racism, capitalism, political economy, and processes related to how governments and markets allocate capital to build and maintain public goods and services and private amenities—from drinking water, to homes, to schools, to grocery and retail stores. Focus is on debates within and across Black communities regarding how Black people should seek individual and collective capacity to realize their citizenship rights and privileges, with particular attention to variation in Black Americans’ interests across the class spectrum. The final two weeks are devoted to Black liberation and reparations movements.
- T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Angela Simms
Info - 4 points
Black Education
BLACK EDUCATION
This class will examine the development of education for African Americans in the United States. Chattel slavery and its afterlives are marked by questions, debates, and experiments not simply in schooling for Black people, but how to use education for the practice of freedom. Through examining this development, students will learn how the experience of Black people in schools complicates static notions about public vs private schools, demands for school desegregation, and the ongoing role of (mostly) white philanthropy in shaping the development of education for Black youth in the US and around the world.
- W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
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Instructor:
Dominic T Walker
Info - 4 points
Social Justice: Connecting Academics to
SOC JUST:CONNEX ACAD TO A
This course will create an opportunity for active engagement between students doing sociology and a local organization working for social change by organizing immigrant communities, Make the Road New York. Students will be expected to actively study and/or participate in a project designed by the instructor and organization leaders. The action/research will primarily take the form of interviews (conducting interviews with members and leaders from an organization or campaign) and participant observation (taking part in the activities of the organization/campaign) and analysis of those interviews and observations. To accomplish this collaborative research project, students will take on different roles throughout the course, including that of fieldworker, project coordinator, analysis coordinator, and context researcher. Students will also read, discuss, and write about literature on scholarly-community partnerships and community organizing. Admittance by application and interview only. Preference to Sociology majors. Spanish speakers and writers, juniors, and seniors.
- TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Deborah Becher
CULPA: 8
h-index: 4
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INDIVIDUAL STUDY II
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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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
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Instructor:
Randa B Serhan
CULPA: 2 Info - 1-6 points