| SOCI 110-01 |
Social Analysis
Instructor: Catherine Sacarellos Maurer
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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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TF
DENNY 203 |
| SOCI 230-01 |
Religious Conflict, Violence, and Peacemaking
Instructor: RELG STAFF
Course Description:
Cross-listed with JDST 216-01 and RELG 260-01.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 311 |
| SOCI 230-02 |
Delinquency and Juvenile Justice
Instructor: Catherine Sacarellos Maurer
Course Description:
This course will introduce you to the basic theories and issues in the study of juvenile delinquency and the juvenile justice system. The class will be split into four sections. The first section, The Nature and Extent of Delinquency, will provide the foundation for the remainder of the course by asking how much delinquency is there, who engages in delinquency and how is delinquency measured? In the next section, Theories of Delinquency, we will explore and apply the main theories used to explain delinquent behavior. The third section, Influences on Delinquency, will focus on the influence of social, individual and environmental factors on juvenile delinquency, such as gender, family, gangs, and drugs. In the final section, The Response to Delinquency, we will discuss the operation of police, courts, and corrections within the juvenile justice system and the ways in which the system prevents, treats and punishes juvenile offenders.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
ALTHSE 106 |
| SOCI 233-01 |
Asian American Communities
Instructor: Helene Lee
Course Description:
This class is designed to move from theoretical understandings of race, and racial identity as it operates in our everyday lives to larger, structural determinants of race with special attention to the unique position of Asian Americans in U.S. race relations. This course focuses on social relations, political identities and activism, immigration and labor experiences to explore the ways Asian Americans have contributed to our larger histories as Americans. Broken down into three sections, this class analyzes the position of Asian Americans in the following interconnected contexts: (a) Asian Americans in relation to dominant society, (b) Asian Americans in relation to other communities of color, and (c) pan-Asian relations. Offered every year.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 204 |
| 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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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 104 |
| SOCI 244-01 |
Quantitative Research Methods
Instructor: Chloe Craig
Course Description:
Quantitative Research Methods introduces students to basic principles of sociological research methodologies and statistical analysis. Students learn to conceptualize a research question, operationalize key concepts, identify relevant literature, and form research hypotheses. Then, using elementary tools of descriptive and inferential statistics, they choose appropriate statistical methods, analyze data, and draw meaningful conclusions. Special emphasis is given to interpreting numbers with clear, persuasive language, in both oral and written formats. Students will become proficient in using quantitative software for data analysis. Two and a half hours classroom and three hours laboratory a week. Prerequisite: 110.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 110
01:30 PM-04:30 PM, T
DENNY 112 |
| SOCI 310-01 |
Immigration Politics: Gender, Race and Sexuality in Contemporary Migration
Instructor: Katie Oliviero
Course Description:
Cross-listed with 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 313-01 |
Pierre Bourdieu and Symbolic Violence
Instructor: Dan Schubert
Course Description:
Cross-listed with EDST 391-02 and PHIL 261-01. Pierre Bourdieu is perhaps the most influential sociologist of the last half century (he's certainly the most cited). His work on the reproduction of inequality, various forms of capital, symbolic power, and symbolic violence has been influential not only in sociology, but in educational studies, philosophy, political science, consumer studies, and anthropology as well. In this course we will read a variety of his works that will enable us to understand the development of these concepts in his work. The multidisciplinary impact of Bourdieu's work is reflected in the multidisciplinary composition of the student body in this course, and it is my hope that we will learn not only from Bourdieu, but from one another and our different disciplinary ways of knowing.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 303 |
| SOCI 330-01 |
Classical Sociological Theory
Instructor: Yalcin Ozkan
Course Description:
This course will examine alternative ways of understanding the human being, society, and culture as they have been presented in classical sociological theory (through 1925). 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 fall.
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09:00 AM-10:15 AM, TR
DENNY 303 |
| SOCI 400-01 |
Culture and Inequality
Instructor: Yalcin Ozkan
Course Description:
How do cultural processes (i.e., socially ingrained meanings and meaningful interpersonal relations) draw on and reinforce social inequality? In return, when, how, and with what consequences do subordinate groups form subversive cultures in the struggle for community, dignity, and equity? This seminar draws on cultural sociology to think about and study these broader questions that treat inequality beyond a simple material matter as a cultural and moral problem. We start with theoretical texts, establishing key concepts from habitus and cultural capital to symbolic boundaries. We then focus on case studies that tackle four sets of issues: education and the reproduction of privilege; urban space and class boundaries; economic and racial divides in intimacy; the making of inequality in production and consumption. Throughout these studies, we pay attention to the cultural processes within which class, gender, and race inequalities are rendered invisible and thus socially normalized without dismissing the processes of contestation through which communities use interpersonal relationships and cultural frames to envision and defend equity and inclusion. Through surveying theoretical and empirical studies of culture and inequality, this seminar also equips its contributors with the skills needed to craft a novel research proposal.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 315 |