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Making democracy work requires an "organized" citizenry with power to assert its interests effectively. Yet US political participation declines, growing more unequal, as new democracies struggle to make citizen participation possible. Students learn to address public problems by organizing: developing leadership, building community, and mobilizing power. Our pedagogy links sociological, political science, and social psychology theory with democratic practice.
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Examines the interconnections between modernity and social change in contemporary China, Japan, and Korea. Explores how modernity is conceptualized by both state and society actors and how these visions fuel change at local and national levels. Particular attention will be paid to issues of social protest, migration, consumption, gender, ethnicity, and family life in both rural and urban locations. Readings focus on ethnographic case studies and the effects of modernity on everyday life experience.
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4.00 Credits
This tutorial traces the vicissitudes of Marx and Nietzsche in the works of the Frankfurt School. Its aim is to deepen students' knowledge of the historical continuities and discontinuities of concepts and debates on psyche, labor, and art from the perspective of critical theory. Particular emphasis is placed on critiques of modernity, mass culture, and society by Horkheimer, Adorno, and Benjamin.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the special status of children and families in American society and politics. We consider social protections for children and families and examine the role of the state in marriage, parenting, and the education of children and adolescents. Topics include child abuse and neglect, divorce and single parenthood, social class and parenting styles, and the relationship between families and schools.
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4.00 Credits
Social movements are often considered a driving force behind political, social, and cultural change. This course explores the major theoretical and empirical approaches used in the social sciences to understand the emergence, endurance, and outcomes of social movement activism. Questions of political and social change, state formation and transformation, violence, peace, gender, race/ethnicity, class, identity, and research methods will be examined through an analysis of case studies from the US, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, as well as transnational movements.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines gender relations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America from a sociological perspective. We begin by discussing various theories of gender and development. We then apply these theories to a number of different topics including political participation, economic activities, development initiatives, violence, warfare, sexuality, and reproduction. Although we discuss men and masculinity wherever possible, most of the research in this area is on women, and women are therefore central to most course readings and discussions.
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4.00 Credits
This course places the politics of health care in the context of economic development. Although health care and social programs are often considered secondary to economic growth, they have come to play an increasingly central role in development policy. This course explores the interaction between development and health through a survey of different theoretical approaches to development, combined with empirical research on public health, AIDS, family planning, and development programs.
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4.00 Credits
This course addresses key themes and problems in the study of religion and politics in modern America. We will begin by wrestling with the thorny question of church-state relations before using historical episodes to explore two pressing theoretical issues: the construction of the category of "religion" itself and the debate over secularization. Finally, we will consider how the inclusion of previously marginalized groups (such as non-Judeo-Christian religious minorities, Mormons, conservative evangelicals, and secularists) challenges entrenched assumptions about the relationship between religion and politics.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces core concepts and theories from urban sociology and urban politics. Emphasizes race, immigration, and ethnic identity in space. Topics include racial and economic segregation, immigrant enclaves, spatial assimilation, urban inequality, and racial identity in the city. Also engages with questions about the autonomy of local communities to challenge poverty and disadvantage.
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4.00 Credits
Despite globalization, the nation is still a major actor in today's world. This course tries to understand why this is so by examining the role that nationalism plays in peoples' identities and the effects of globalization on nations and nationalism. Examples from the United States, Western Europe, Latin America, India, and the Middle East.
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