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Staff. An examination of the theory and practice of minority representation in television, film, advertising and music. The course focuses on representation and how it may work to marginalize or empower members of minority populations. It concentrates on ethnic minorities (African Americans, Native Americans, Latino's), as well as sexual minorities. How has "minority" been defined--who is included and why How have notations of "minority" status been constructed in mass media and what may be the potential impact of those images both on minority and non-minority populations While the class is theoretically situated in sociology and communications, it also considers how the perspectives of anthropology, feminism, and ethnic studies have affected our understanding of public representations.
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Sivin. Until very recently no society's physicians, seeking to understand the contents of the living human body, could do better than construct a disciplined fantasy. The raw materials of this fantasy were what experts knew about the insides of cadavers, what people felt going on inside them and, equally important, each culture's notions of order and process in the world of Nature and in society. The results were remarkably diverse, as we learn not only from comparing the medicine of different times in the same culture. In each case we can reconstruct the relations between the lay imagination, medicine, cosmology, and values. We will draw on tools that many disciplines--from literary analysis to social theory to history of Chinese medicine--apply to the study of the body.
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Furstenberg. This course is designed to provide acquaintenace with relevant scholarship and current research for students engaged in empirical work on the sociology of the family, gender studies, and public policy research related to children, youth and families. The class will be devoted to helping students papers and thesis work in this area. Students should come to the class with a research topic in mind. Permission of Instructor Required.
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Leidner. The material world is shaped and maintained through work, but so is the social world. How work is organized, allocated, and rewarded determines the opportunities people have for developing their own capacities, the kinds of ties they will have with others, and how much control they will have over their own lives. We will consider various sociological perspectives on work and compare alternative ways of organizing work, with a focus on the contemporary United States.
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Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Furstenberg. The course will review a series of theoretical issues in the sociology of the family and examine major empirical studies in which theoretical advances have been made. Special attention will be given to work that has a historical and comparative perspective. Opportunities will be provided for original research on the family.
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Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Furstenberg, Wolpe, Zuberi. Topics vary from semester to semester. Courses offered in the past were Social Movements and Social Change; Critical Race Theory; Conducting Family Research; Mistakes, Errors, Accidents and Disasters; Sociology of Jewish Bioethics.
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Allison, Smith. Prerequisite(s): Basic algebra. This course is an introduction to the practice of statistics in social and behavioral sciences. It is open to beginning graduate students and--with the permission of the instructor--advanced undergraduates. Topics covered include the description of social science data, in graphical and non-graphical form; correlation and other forms of association, including cross-tabulation; bivariate regression; an introduction to probability theory; the logic of sampling; the logic of statistical inference and significance tests. There is a lecture twice weekly and a mandatory "lab."
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Allison, Kohler, Smith. Prerequisite(s): SOCI 535 or permission of instructor. A course in applied linear modeling. Emphasis on the theory and practice of multiple regression and analysis of variance, with extensions to path analysis and other simultaneous equation methods. Some data manipulation will require the use of a statistical computer "package,"SAS" but the greater emphasis of the course will be on conceptualization and the ability to manipulate these new ideas both with and without access to statistical software.
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Collins. Economic sociology examines the production and exchange of goods and services from the viewpoint of the social relationships in which economic activities are embedded, the social conditions for economic change, and the effects of these arrangements upon social inequality and well-being. Topics include historical theories of capitalism; socialist economies and transitions; the global economy; institutions and cultures underpinning various kinds of market and nonmarket exchanges. Network analysis has been on the forefront of new models of how economic exchange is structured. This course surveys network theories of Harrison White, Burt, Zelizer and others, as well as related analyses of network effects upon careers, power, conflict, and social movements.
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Madden. Drawing from sociology, economics and demography, this course examines the causes and effects of gender differences in labor force participation, earnings and occupation in the United States and in the rest of the developed and developing world. Differences by race, ethnicity and sexual preference are also considered. Theories of labor supply, marriage, human captial and discrimination are explored as explanations for the observed trends. Finally, the course reviews current labor market policies and uses the theories of labor supply, marriage, human capital and discrimination to evaluate their effects on women and men.
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