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SOCIOL 301 The City: Urbanization and Urbanism (1): Historical roots and theories of urbanization. US urban structure in relation to economics and politics. Methods for studying the city and its neighborhoods. Urban reform policies.
SOCIOL 302 Sociology of Organizations (1): Structure and function of formal organizations, especially in business and government. Stratification, social control, and conflict. Discretion, rules, and information in achieving goals. Modes of participation and development of informal norms.
SOCIOL 305 Demography and Population Problems (1): Population and social structure. Fertility, mortality, and migration. Age-sex structure, spatial distributions, and socioeconomic composition. Problems of growth, distribution, population control, and scarce resources in developed and underdeveloped countries.
SOCIOL 307 School and Society (1): Reciprocal influences between formal educational institutions and society, from various theoretical perspectives. Emphasis on internal organization of schools, the relationship between education and inequality, and problems of contemporary urban education.
SOCIOL 308 Sociology of Deviance and Crime (1): The social organization of crime and other misdeeds, explanations of crime and deviance, creating criminal law, policing, detection and investigation, prosecution, plea bargaining, the courts, sentencing, punishment, prisons, and alternatives to criminal law.
SOCIOL 309 Political Sociology (1): Selected topics in political economy and sociology. Issues include revolutions, the development of the modern state, Third World development, and international conflict.
SOCIOL 310 The Family and Social Learning (1): Historical and modern relationships of families to major social institutions. Variations in marriage, divorce, and remarriage patterns under changing social and economic conditions. Role pressures in modern family systems with changing social values and familial resources.
SOCIOL 312 Social Basis of Environmental Change (1): Relationship of the social organization of production and consumption to environmental degradation. Evaluation of social forces supporting and opposing environmental reform. Social welfare considerations in alternative models of reform.
SOCIOL 314 Sociology of Religion and Ideology (1): Relation of belief systems to social structure. Generation, maintenance, and decline of organizational commitment. The production of ideas. Religion, art, science, political ideology, and folk knowledge as social products.
SOCIOL 315 Industrialism and Industrialization (1): Structure and culture of modern industry; consequences for status and class organization. Labor force; formal and informal organization of management and labor. Union-management interaction. Industrial morale.
SOCIOL 318 Sociology of Law (1): The relationship between law and society. Topics may include theoretical perspectives on law, comparative legal development, law making, disputing and the civil litigation system, law enforcement and regulation, the courts, the profession and practice of law, law as a mechanism of social control, law and social inequality, and law and social change.
SOCIOL 319 Sociology of Science (1): Types of interdependence as determinants of social relations and forms of discourse among scientists-sociology of scientific work. Audiences for scientific work as determinants of the stratification system of science. Variations among disciplines in social organization.
SOCIOL 321 Armed Forces and Society (1): Changing military organization and civil-military relations in the past and present. Military recruitment, socialization, and professionalism. Minorities and women in the military. Peacekeeping forces.
SOCIOL 323 American Subcultures and Ethnic Groups (1): Differentiation, organization, and stratification by ethnicity, race, lifestyle, and other traits. Maintenance of subgroup boundaries and distinctiveness. Development and continuity of American society as a system of subgroups. Consequences of difference: identity; political and economic participation; group solidarity.
SOCIOL 325 Sociology of Inequality (1): Sources, patterns, and dynamics of social stratification and their effects on life chances and social organizations. Theoretical, methodological, and comparative dimensions. Emphasis on advanced industrial societies.
SOCIOL 326 The Logic of Social Inquiry (1): Tensions between methodological rules and researcher judgments in the practice of social inquiry. Tradeoffs in various research designs. Social contexts and their resources for or their restraints on social researchers. Effects of research context on forms of observation and reporting of inferences.
SOCIOL 327 Youth in Society (1): Focus on American youth, especially oriented around those who are not college bound. Institutions with which they interact: families, schools, and workplaces in particular. Also, the issue of relationships.
SOCIOL 331 Markets, Hierarchies, and Democracies (1): Forms and social structures for making economic decisions in modern societies. Theories on their purposes, conditions of their occurrence, and types of outcomes produced.
SOCIOL 332 Work and Occupation in Modern Industrialized Societies (1): Work in modern society and its place in the moral order: selection, recruitment, socialization, and career stages of workers; the relationship of work and responsibilities to family and society.
SOCIOL 345 Class and Culture (1): Theories of class formation and class reproduction; cultural processes that produce class relations in the United States.
SOCIOL 350 Sociology of the Arts (1): Art as a collective activity. Conventions in artistic activities and aesthetic responses. Training of professionals and audiences. Relation of artistic works to other aspects of culture.
SOCIOL 355 Medical Sociology (1): Response to health and illness in various cultures and societies. Identification, distribution, and treatment of disease. Health care systems, organization of medical careers and practices, the sick role, sickness as deviant behavior, and the politics of health care delivery.
SOCIOL 376 Topics in Sociological Analysis (1): Topics in sociology. Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
SOCIOL 401-1 Statistical Analysis of Social Data: Applied Regression Methods I (1): Introduction to the theory, methods, and practice of linear regression analysis: descriptive statistics,analysis of variance, ordinary least squares (OLS), and regression diagnostics. STATA used for computation. For first-year graduate students in sociology.
SOCIOL 401-2 Statistical Analysis of Social Data: Applied Regression Methods II (1): Regression models with categorical and discrete outcomes: categorical variables, maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), probit and logistic regression, logit models, tobit models, and advanced STATA techniques. For first-year graduate students in sociology.
SOCIOL 402 Event-History Analysis (1): Introduction to event-history (survival) analysis: common nonparametric, semiparametric and parametric models for both continuous and discrete time intervals; practical data management techniques in STATA. Prerequisites: SOCIOL 401-2 or permission of instructor.
SOCIOL 403 Field Methods (1): Application of the methods of case study, interviewing, and participant observation.
SOCIOL 404 Designs for Descriptive Causal Research in Field Settings (1): Theories of causation. Analysis of the ability of various experimental and quasi-experimental designs to promote the end of two types of causal inference.
SOCIOL 405 Research Methods (1): Fundamentals of research design, sampling, data collection, and data analysis. May include questionnaire design, aspects of archival research, content analysis, and the relationship between methods, analytic techniques, and the building and confirming of theoretical models.
SOCIOL 406-1 Classical Theory in Sociological Analysis (1): Marx and Weber: comparison and contrasts of their theories. Also, theorists such as Lukacs and Gramsci, who combine elements from both.
SOCIOL 406-2 Modern Theory in Sociological Analysis (1): Major theorists after World War II. Functional theorists, symbolic interactionists, development theorists, the debate over consensus and conflict. The 1950s and 1960s as background for the social theory movements of the 1970s and 1980s.
SOCIOL 406-3 Contemporary Theory in Sociological Analysis (1): Contemporary approaches to important theoretical issues. Emphasizes the relationship between theory and current research. Content varies. Topics may include functionalism, neo-Marxism, rational action, feminism, or symbolic interactionism. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
SOCIOL 408 Sociology of Law (1): Classical and modern theories of law. Modes of inquiry in sociolegal research. Patterns of legal development; comparisons among capitalist, socialist, customary, and indigenous legal systems. The relationship of law to social control, inequality, and social change. Social organization of legal institutions, including systems of dispute resolution and litigation, the legal profession, and regulatory and enforcement agencies.
SOCIOL 410 Comparative and Historical Methods (1): The logic of comparative methods practiced in the social sciences today; contrast with other analytic logics and comparative designs for different types of investigation. Analytic tools needed to link case-oriented and variable-oriented discourse in comparative social research. Advanced introduction.
SOCIOL 416 New Perspectives on Gender in Society (1): Importance of gender in paid work, feminist revisions of mainstream theory in the social sciences, gender and power, the roles of Third World women under colonialism and after independence, and the relationship of work to the family. Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
SOCIOL 420 Cultural Sociology and the Sociology of Culture (1): Production, distribution, reception of culture; culture and meaning; cultural approaches to social boundaries, social problems; local and global cultures.
SOCIOL 437 Economic Sociology (1): The sociological approach to production, distribution, consumption and markets. Comparison of microeconomic and sociological treatments of similar subjects. Topics may include labor markets, industrial organization, and comparative economic systems.
SOCIOL 439 Comparative and Historical Sociology (1): Theoretical and methodological issues in the comparison of whole societies and other macrosocial units. Contrasts approaches that emphasize variables with those that emphasize cases (i.e., countries) and their histories. Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
SOCIOL 440 Stratification, Race, and Gender (1): Issues in current research and theory in stratification, race, and gender. Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic. For graduate students.
SOCIOL 441 Social Organization (1): Issues in research and theory in organizations, institutions, and social movements. Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic. For graduate students.
SOCIOL 476 Topics in Sociological Analysis (1): Advanced areas of graduate student interest. Content varies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
SOCIOL 477 Research Methods in Law and Social Science (1): Surveys the range of methodological approaches employed in social scientific studies of law and legal phenomena, including historical methods, experimental methods, survey methods, qualitative methods, and quantitative methods.
SOCIOL 478 Perspectives on Law and Social Science (1): Surveys the range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of law in social and historical context. Topics include the history of law and society scholarship, paradigms of inquiry in law and social science, and contemporary trends in law and society research.
SOCIOL 479 Topics in Law and Social Science (1): Focuses on advanced special topics in law and social science. May be repeated for credit with change in topic.
SOCIOL 480 Introduction to the Discipline (0): Introduction to the department, faculty, and adjunct faculty. Faculty discuss their research and teaching interests. Mandatory two-quarter weekly seminar for first-year students.
SOCIOL 490 Research (1): Independent study for work on second-year paper.
SOCIOL 499 Independent Study (1): Independent study in social theory, methodology, social change, and social institutions. Permission of instructor and department required.
SOCIOL 510 Seminar and Workshop in the Logic of Analysis (1): Current issues in research and theory in method and analytical strategies, including qualitative and quantitative methods. Presentation of second-year papers, thesis proposals, and other scholarly papers by students, faculty, and visitors in addition to reading seminar sessions. May be repeated for credit.
SOCIOL 511 Seminar on the Theory and Measurement of Social Change (1): Empirical and theoretical criteria employed in assertions of major changes; evidence required as bases for assertions.
SOCIOL 513 Urbanization and Social Structure (1): Causes and patterns of world urbanization. The nature of urban life in major regions; variations related to cultural and structural differences; focus on the question of community. Techniques for analysis and comparison of diverse theories.
SOCIOL 514 Sociology of Education (1): Education issues: stratification, social policy, and organizational changes. Chicago school systems are the focus. Fieldwork-oriented graduate seminar.
SOCIOL 570 Seminar on College Teaching (1): The art of undergraduate teaching. Explores the role of teaching assistant and teacher, methods, and styles.
SOCIOL 576 Topics in Sociological Analysis (1): Seminar in areas of expressed student interest. Open to advanced graduate students. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
SOCIOL 590 Research (1): Independent investigation of selected problems pertaining to thesis or dissertation.
Related Courses
AF_AM_ST 315 Urban Education (1): Problems of urban education; special attention to prospects for reforming urban school systems.
HDSP 427 Social Opportunity and Educational Policy (1): Conflicts between offering opportunity to youth and societal imperatives for selecting and preparing youth for future careers; how society and schools deal with this conflict. Approaches to policy reform.
MORS 425-1 Behavior in Organizational Systems (1): Theory construction, with effort at verification, drawing on empirical studies. Macro-level analysis of internal organizational system problems such as goals, structure, roles, power, authority, communications, and controls.
MORS 425-2 Organizations in Their Environments (1): Analysis of organizations in their environments, focusing on cross-cultural and cross-institutional research, the ecology, the way internal characteristics condition external relations, and the way environments influence internal processes.
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