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SOCI 20116 /30116: Global-Local Politics
3.00 Credits
University of Chicago
Globalizing and local forces are generating a new politics in the United States and around the world. This course explores this new politics by mapping its emerging elements: the rise of social issues, ethno-religious and regional attachments, environmentalism, gender and life-style identity issues, new social movements, transformed political parties and organized groups, and new efforts to mobilize individual citizens. T. Clark. Winter.
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SOCI 20118 /30118: Survey Research Overview
3.00 Credits
University of Chicago
The goal for each student is to find a research question to guide his or her overall research design. The course walks students through the steps involved in survey research: finding funding, writing a grant proposal, sampling, questionnaire design, coding, cleaning, and data analysis. This is a useful introduction for students who are interested in survey research because it provides the big picture of what should be considered when designing survey research and how to approach the different tasks involved in a survey project. This single-quarter course is offered each Autumn and Winter Quarter. M. Van Haitsma. Autumn, Winter.
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SOCI 20120 /30120: Urban Policy Analysis
3.00 Credits
University of Chicago
This course addresses the explanations available for varying patterns of policies that cities provide in terms of expenditures and service delivery. Topics include theoretical approaches and policy options, migration as a policy option, group theory, citizen preference theory, incrementalism, economic base influences, and an integrated model. Also examined are the New York fiscal crisis and taxpayer revolts, measuring citizen preferences, service delivery, and productivity. T. Clark. Autumn.
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SOCI 20122 /30122: Introduction to Population
3.00 Credits
University of Chicago
This course introduces the field of demography, which examines the growth and characteristics of human populations. It also provides an overview of our knowledge of three fundamental population processes: fertility, mortality, and migration. We cover marriage, cohabitation, marital disruption, aging, and population and environment. In each case we examine historical trends. We also discuss causes and consequences of recent trends in population growth, as well as the current demographic situation in developing and developed countries. L. Waite. Winter.
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SOCI 20129 /30129: Economic Development in the Inner City
3.00 Credits
University of Chicago
PQ: At least one prior course in economics, political science, public policy, or sociology. This course explores conceptually what the issues are around the economic position of cities in the early twenty-first century, as well as how to think creatively about strategies to generate economic growth that would have positive consequences for low-income residents. We consider community Development Corporations, empowerment zones, housing projects, and business development plans through credit and technical assistance. R. Taub. Winter.
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SOCI 20131 /30131: Social and Political Movements
3.00 Credits
University of Chicago
This course provides a general overview and a synthesis on theories of social and political movements. We emphasize the importance of state and state-society relations to the rise and outcome of a social or political movement. D. Zhao. Winter.
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SOCI 20148 /30148: Social Studies of Science
3.00 Credits
University of Chicago
This course examines science as an institution, drawing primarily on research not only from sociology but also from economics, philosophy, history, and interdisciplinary approaches. We examine the culture and practice of science, the many-layered organization of scientific activity, ways in which the scientific system draws inputs from society (e.g., money, students) and produces outputs for it (e.g., technologies, scientists and engineers, articles, certainty), the role of science in governments and economies, and the influence of these and other institutions on the evolution of scientific knowledge. J. Evans. Spring.
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SOCI 20157 /30157: Mathematical Models
3.00 Credits
University of Chicago
This course examines mathematical models and related analyses of social action, emphasizing a rational-choice perspective. About half the lectures focus on models of collective action, power, and exchange as developed by Coleman, Bonacich, Marsden, and Yamaguchi. Then we examine models of choice over the life course, including rational and social choice models of marriage, births, friendship networks, occupations, and divorce. Both behavioral and analytical models are surveyed. K. Yamaguchi. Spring.
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SOCI 20160 /30160: Social Behavior and Health
3.00 Credits
University of Chicago
PQ: Prior course(s) in sociology or health studies. This course surveys major literature in medical sociology, with a focus on social behavior and health. Topics include social construction of illness, medicine as an institution of social control, stress process theory and models, socioeconomic status and health, and the behavioral models of health care utilization. Y. Yang. Spring.
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SOCI 20169 /30169: Global Society and Global Culture:Paradigms of Social and Cultural Analysis
3.00 Credits
University of Chicago
This course introduces major theories of globalization and core approaches to global society and global culture. We discuss micro- and macroglobalization, cultural approaches to globalization, systems theory, discourse approaches, and the "strong program" in globalization studies. Topics include a section on the ethnography of the global, empirical studies that illustrate the interest and feasibility of globalization studies, and critical studies of dimensions of globalization . K. Knorr Cetina. Autumn.
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