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3.00 Credits
Hannum. This course provides a hands-on introduction to survey data collection through lectures, discussions, in-class exercises, and a class survey project. We examine major planning tasks and considerations necessary for conducting surveys, including substantive issues (problem formulation, study design, questionnaire and interview design, pretesting, sampling), practical issues (proposal-writing and fundraising, interviewer training and field management, coding, and data cleaning and management), and ethical concerns (basic ethical principles in social research, responsibilities to subjects, colleagues, and funders, common ethical dilemmas in survey research, and institutional oversight of research ethics).
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This class is intended as an introduction to the field methods of sociological research, with a focus on ethnographic observation and interviewing. The beginning of the course will emphasize the history and current status of these methods in the discipline of sociology, while at the same time preparing students for their own field studies. Students will conduct a piece of orignial research as part of the course, from data collection through analysis and written results. Along the way, we will discuss issues such as the social role of the field researcher, the ethics of field research, and the strengths and limitations of field methods.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Furstenberg, Park, Zuberi. Topics vary from semester to semester. Some which have been offered in the past include: Media, Culture & Society; Biotechnology, Bioethics and the Body; African Urbanization, and Urban Families; Schools and Neighborhoods; Research and Service/Learning.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Courses which have been offered in the past have included: Advanced Topics: Persp. on American Poverty. Topics vary from semester to semester.
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3.00 Credits
Society Sector. All classes. Laufer, Sherman. This introductory course examines the multi-disciplinary science of law-making, law-breaking, and law-enforcing. It reviews theories explaining where, when, by whom and against whom crimes happen. Police, courts, prisons, and other institutions are also critically examined. This course meets the general distribution requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Fetni. Beginning with discussion of various perspectives on social change and law, this course then examines in detail the interdependent relationship between changes in legal and societal institutions. Emphasis will be placed on (1) how and when law can be an instrument for social change, and (2) how and when social change can cause legal change. In the assessment of this relationship, the laws of the United States and other countries as well as international law, will be studied. Throughout the course, discussions will include legal controversies relevant to social change such as civil liberties, gender and the law, and issues of nation-building. A comparative framework will be used in the analysis of this interdependent relationship between law and social change.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Collins, Wilde. Classic theory of religion in Durkheim and Weber, as well as contemporary theories of religious movements. Topics include ritual, magic, and mystical experience; religious ethics and salvation beliefs; the dynamics of cults, sects and mainstream churches; origins, expansion and decline of religions; religions and social class; religions and politics. The spectrum of religions in the contemporary United States will be examined, as well as historical comparisons.
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3.00 Credits
Ensmenger. Free speech, free software, MOOS, MUDs, anime and cyberpunk. All of these are elements of a braod set of social, technical and political phenomena generally associated with the emergence of a nascent "cyberculture".In this seminar we explore the ways in which recent developments in information technology -- the computer and the Internet in particular -- related to changing contemporary notions of community, identity, property and gender. By looking at an eclectic collection of popular and scholarsly resources including film, fiction and the World Wide Web, we will situate the development of cyberculture in the larger history of the complex relationship between technology and Western society.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Elo. This course is designed to introduce students to current literature on facr/ethnic difference in health and mortality in the United States, covering such topics as explanations for why some race/ethnic groups fare better than others, how inner city poverty and residential segregation may contribute to racial/ethnic differences in health outcomes, and health of immigrants versus native-born populations. Current policy debated and recent policy developments related to health are also briely discussed. The course is organized as a seminar with a combination of lectures and class discussions. We will meet only once a week. It is important that students attend and actively participate in class discussions. There are four short assignments designed around the topics covered in class. There will be one in-class exam toward the end of the course. In addition, students are required to write a research paper (12_15 pages), which will consist of a health profile of a race/ethnic group of a student's choice and its possible explanations. There are no prerequisities, although a prior sociology course and familiarity with a spreadsheet program would be useful.
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3.00 Credits
Society Sector. All classes. Vitiello. Immigration is a controversial issue, dividing Americans from Congress to big cities to small towns. What's at stake in these debates What does immigration mean for cities and regions And what roles should policy makers, planners, and community organizations play in shaping migration and its impacts This course examines these questions in the context of immigrant, refugee, and receiving communities in the United States. It surveys public policy and community and economic development practices related to migration, at the local, regional, and trans-national scale. Class readings,discussions, and regular visits to a variety of Philadelphia's immigrant neighborhoods explore themes including labor markets, political mobilization, social and cultural policy, and the built environment. The first half of the course surveys migration and community development among a broad range of ethnic groups in different parts of the city and suburbs; the second half focuses on specific policy and development initiatives. Assignments include an opportunity to work with immigrant-serving organizations.
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