| SOCI 110-01 |
Social Analysis
Instructor: Marcellus Taylor
Course Description:
Selected topics in the empirical study of the ways in which people's character and life choices are affected by variations in the organization of their society and of the activities by which social arrangements varying in their adequacy to human needs are perpetuated or changed.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 317 |
| SOCI 227-01 |
Political Economy of Gender
Instructor: Ebru Kongar
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ECON 230-01 and WGSS 202-01. Political Economy of Gender adopts a gender-aware perspective to examine how people secure their livelihoods through labor market and nonmarket work. The course examines the nature of labor market inequalities by gender, race, ethnicity and other social categories, how they are integrated with non-market activities, their wellbeing effects, their role in the macroeconomy, and the impact of macroeconomic policies on these work inequalities. These questions are examined from the perspective of feminist economics that has emerged since the early 1990s as a heterodox economics discourse, critical of both mainstream and gender-blind heterodox economics. While we will pay special attention to the US economy, our starting point is that there is one world economy with connections between the global South and the North, in spite of the structural differences between (and within) these regions.For ECON 230: ECON 111 (ECON 112 recommended); For SOCI 227: SOCI 110 or ECON 111; For WGSS 202: none (ECON 111 recommended). This course is cross-listed as ECON 230 & WGSS 202.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
ALTHSE 206 |
| SOCI 228-01 |
Sociology of Sexualities
Instructor: Amy Steinbugler
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 202-05. This course explores the social origins of sexual behaviors, identities, and desires. We will investigate how sexuality intersects with other social hierarchies including race, gender, and class. Our current frameworks for understanding sexuality and sexual identity are the product of social, political, and economic forces, and reflect the common sense of a particular historical moment. We will consider a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of sexuality and explore more closely how these perspectives inform the analysis of contemporary sexual issues. Offered every two years.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 311 |
| SOCI 230-01 |
Sociological Theories of Education
Instructor: Dan Schubert
Course Description:
Cross-listed with EDST 391-04.
The fields of sociology and educational studies have considerable overlap, and in this class we will examine a variety of ways in which education has been theorized within sociology. The range of theories we will consider include the functionalism of Durkheim, feminist theories ranging from Mary Wollstonecraft to Kat Banyard, the Marxist theories of Antonio Gramsci and Paul Willis, the liberatory theory of Paulo Friere, Black liberation theories ranging from Du Bois to today's April Baker-Bell, and the poststructuralist theories of Bourdieu and others. Reading original works, we will seek to understand the various arguments that suggest that education as a social institution contributes to social cohesion and equality on the one hand, or racialized inequalities, gendered inequalities, and classed inequalities on the other. Finally, we will read Joanne Golann's empirical study of the ways in which, contrary to popular belief, charter schools tend to reinforce rather than break down cultural divides between various races and classes. Along the way we will discuss various historical moments when efforts were made to change the ways in which education is delivered, experienced, and funded.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 304 |
| SOCI 230-02 |
Environmental and Social Justice
Instructor: Heather Bedi
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ENST 280-01. This course reviews social inequalities in relation to environmental issues. We examine the social construction of equity and justice, and apply this learning to understand how societies frame environmental risk. Drawing from domestic and international case studies, we explore how marginalized people and communities disproportionately experience environmental externalities. The social and environmental consequences of uneven development across place exemplify justice and capitalism contradictions. Examples of community agency to re-appropriate or reframe their environment will allow us to understand collective action to counter social and environmental injustices.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
KAUF 187 |
| SOCI 230-04 |
Gender and Justice
Instructor: Kathryn Heard
Course Description:
Permission of instructor required. Cross-listed with POSC 243-01, WGSS 302-02, PHIL 261-04 and LAWP 234-04.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 317 |
| SOCI 230-05 |
Race and the Rights of Citizenship
Instructor: Kathryn Heard
Course Description:
Permission of instructor required. Cross-listed with LAWP 290-01 and POSC 290-04.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, T
ALTHSE 206 |
| SOCI 236-01 |
Inequalities in the U.S.
Instructor: Erik Love
Course Description:
This course takes a critical look at the layers of American society that shape, construct, and inhibit the basic pursuit for equality of opportunity. Students will be asked to examine how the three most fundamental elements of social stratification (race, class, gender) function both separately and in tandem to organize systems of inequality. The course uses theoretical and practical applications of stratification to evaluate how social constructions of difference influence the institutions and social policy. Additionally, class discussions will also consider how the forces of racism, sexism, and classism impact the attainment of basic needs, such as wages, health care and housing. Offered every year.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 103 |
| SOCI 237-01 |
Global Inequality
Instructor: Helene Lee
Course Description:
Exploring the relationship between globalization and inequality, this course examines the complex forces driving the integration of ideas, people, societies and economies worldwide. This inquiry into global disparities will consider the complexities of growth, poverty reduction, and the roles of international organizations. Among the global issues under scrutiny, will be environmental degradation; debt forgiveness; land distribution; sweatshops, labor practices and standards; slavery in the global economy; and the vulnerability of the world's children. Under specific investigation will be the social construction and processes of marginalization, disenfranchisement and the effects of globalization that have reinforced the division between the world's rich and poor. Offered every year.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 104 |
| SOCI 240-01 |
Qualitative Methods
Instructor: Helene Lee
Course Description:
This course introduces students to the theory and methods of social science research, beginning with an examination of the philosophies underlying various research methodologies. The course then focuses on ethnographic field methods, introducing students to the techniques of participant observation, structured and informal interviewing, oral histories, sociometrics, and content analysis. Students will design their own field projects. Prerequisite: 110.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 112 |
| SOCI 310-01 |
Immigration Politics: Gender, Race and Sexuality in Contemporary Migration
Instructor: Katie Oliviero
Course Description:
Cross-listed with INST 290-02 and WGSS 310-01. Why do global controversies over immigration so often center on migrant womens fertility and their childrens access to government benefits? Why do some countries accept LGBTQ migrants but deny them the right to adopt, use assisted reproductive technologies, or extend citizenship to their children? How are efforts to limit marriage-and-family based migration racialized and classed? What are the gendered implications when nurses are a countrys central export? Could building a border wall or sending refugees back stop unwanted immigration? This course examines how intersecting gender, sexual and ethnic hierarchies shape and are shaped by immigration. Applying insights from feminist and queer theories of migration, students will explore how the gendered processes surrounding immigration craft concepts of nation, borders and citizenship. Readings and films examine how racial and sexual norms are renegotiated through the selection and regulation of immigrants. Central to our investigation is how transnational and economic forces compel migration, reshaping understandings of national belonging, workplaces, and family in the process. We will particularly consider how migrants negotiate multiple marginalizations, and in turn refashion understandings of community, identities, culture, and politics. An interdisciplinary framework combines sociological, historical, legal, activist, media, literary and artistic accounts.Prerequisite: One WGSS or SOCI course, or permission of instructor; not appropriate for first-year students. Cross-listed as WGSS 310.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 211 |
| SOCI 331-01 |
Contemporary Sociological Theory
Instructor: Dan Schubert
Course Description:
This course will examine alternative ways of understanding the human being, society, and culture as they have been presented in contemporary sociological theory (1925-present). It will focus on the theoretical logic of accounting for simple and complex forms of social life, interactions between social processes and individual and group identities, major and minor changes in society and culture, and the linkages between intimate and large-scale human experience. Prerequisite: 110 and one additional course in sociology, or permission of instructor. Offered every spring.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
DENNY 303 |
| SOCI 405-01 |
Senior Thesis
Instructor: Erik Love
Course Description:
Permission of Instructor Required. Independent study, in consultation with a specially constituted faculty committee, of a problem area chosen by the student. The student should, in addition to pursuing his/her own interests, also seek to demonstrate how various perspectives within sociology and, where relevant, other disciplines bear on the topic chosen. Permission of the instructor required.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 315 |