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3.00 Credits
Strang. This seminar focuses on the ongoing data collection of Penn's Jerry Lee Program of Randomized Controlled Trials in Restorative Justice, the largest program of field experiments in the history of criminology. Since 1995, this research program has randomly assigned over 3400 victims and offenders to either conventional justice or restorative conferences of victims, offenders and their families, in Canberra (Australia), London, Northumbria and Thames Valley (all in UK). The offenders have all been willing to acknowledge their guilt to their victims (or the community), and to try to repair the harm they have caused. The seminar's purpose is to introduce students to the theory and practice of RJ, to discuss findings emerging from the Jerry Lee Program, and to provide students with a major, supervised research experience using extensive observational, interview and criminal offending (self-report) data. Students will learn how to analyze survey data in the context of randomized experiments in justice, as well to understand the conceptual and methodological issues central to expermental criminology.
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3.00 Credits
Rock. The course will serve as an introduction both to qualitative research and to an understanding of the routine workings of the courts in Philadelphia. After a brief discussion of the theoretical underpinnings and practical techniques of ethnography, students will undertake supervised field projects leading to the writing of 5000 words long, examined research reports about different aspects of the social organization of the courthouse and court room.
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3.00 Credits
Wolfson. This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to various perspectives and philosophies that have dominated the discourse on urban poverty throughout history. The course is primarily concerned with the ways in which historical, cultural, political, racial, social, geographical, and economic forces have either shaped or been left out of contemporary debates on urban poverty. Of great importance, the course will evaluate competing knowledge systems and their respective implications in terms of the questions of "what can be known" about urban poverty in the contexts of policy circles, academic literature, and the broader social imaginary. We will critically analyze a wide body of literature seeking to theorize urban poverty, ranging from sociological; anthropological/ethnographic; geographical; Marxist; historical; social welfare; and cultural analyses. Primacy will be granted to critical analysis of course readings, particularly with regard to the ways in which various knowledge systems - or "regimes of truth" - create, sustain, and constrict meaning in reference to urban poverty.
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3.00 Credits
Leidner. This seminar will explore the conditions under which women become politically active and the relevance of gender to forms of activism, organizational practices, and choice of issues. Using contemporary and historical case studies, we will examine women's activism in feminist and anti-feminist movements and organizations; in single-sex organizations devoted to a broad range of goals; and in mixed-gender movements, including civil rights and trade unions.
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3.00 Credits
Bosk, Charles, Furstenberg, Hannum, Zuberi. Upper level special topics.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Von Mahs. This seminar will explore the impact of economic globalization on welfare states in North American and Europe. Specifically, this course will provide a systematized account of how different welfare regimes respond to global economic restructuring processes and thereby produce different outcomes in the protection of their citizens against social risks. This course has four major objectives: 1) to critically examine the concept of "globalization" 2) to show how global economics restructuring processes affect urban areas in different countries in similar ways, 3) to introduce the differences between various welfare regimes in Europe and North America as well as the nature and extent of social service provision, and 4) to examine the outcomes of different welfare policies for residents in different nation-states focusing on urban problems such as unemployment or underemployment, poverty, racial/ethnic inequalities, immigration, housing shortages and homelessness. This comparative analysis of social policy in the context of economic globalization will enable students to reassess the function, opportunities, and limitations of different types of welfare policies in order to find ways to rethink current social policy approaches in the United States and to envision more productive alternatives.
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3.00 Credits
Barg. There is a great deal of variation among population groups in the incidence of and mortality from most major diseases. Biological and social factors can account for some of this variation. However, there is increasing evidence that behavior- and the cultural models that are linked to health behavior- play an important role too. Cognitive anthropology is the study of how people in social groups conceive of objects and events in their world. It provides a framework for understanding how members of different groups categorize illness and treatment. It also helps to explain why risk perception, helpseeking behavior, and decision making styles vary to the extent they do. This seminar will explore the history of cognitive anthropology, schema theory, connectionism, the role of cultural models, and factors affecting health decision making. Methods for identifying cultural models will be discussed and practiced. Implications for health communication will be discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Madden. This course analyzes the role of metropolitan regions in the U.S. and global economies, including the sources of metropolitan productivity, the ways that metropolitan structures affect residents, and analyses of public policy in metropolitan areas. The economic, political, and social forces that have shaped World War II urban and regional development are explored, including technology, demography, and government. Special attention is paid to how metropolitan change affects residents by income and race. Topics include: gentrification, schools, suburbanization, sprawl, metropolitan fragmentation, concentration of poverty, race, and various economic revitalization initiatives.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Power is an ability to create change. Without access to power that might otherwise come from political, financial or personal networks, community organizing can often serve as the only viable source of power for the oppressed. Whereas organizing has unfortunately become a partisan buzzword during the 2008 presidential campaign, it has played a central role in US history since the Populist movement of the late 19th century, most notably as the foundation of the Civil Rights movement. This course will integrate the history and theories of community organizing in order to develop a praxis for each student to create change in their own communities. Focused analysis of several key texts, inquiry and problem-posing methods rooted in the student's own context will serve as the primary means of study.
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3.00 Credits
Collins, Gibson. This course will survey the state of contemporary theory from 1945 to the present, using seminal theoretical works and empirical studies they have generated. Part I will focus on American theoretical traditions, including functionalism, symbolic interactionism, network theory and conflict theory. Part II will examine European theorists including Bourdieu, Foucault, Anthony Giddens, and Habermas. Additional sessions will examine post modernism, theories of globalization, and recent developments in anthropological theory.
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