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  • SOCI 619: Doctoral Seminar in Sociological Research I

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Grazian, Jacobs, Schnittker. The primary goal of this course is to aid sociology graduate students in the framing, writing and revising of their dissertation proposals, as well as provide a forum for the presentation of their research progress. In the first semester, we will focus on the development of a topic of study and a central set of research questions, with emphasis given to the set of theoretical issues relevant to the selected topic. In the second semester, emphasis will shift to the selection of data and methods necessary for addressing these questions. A second goal of this course is to assist in the acquisition of professional skills necessary for success in the acedemic world. In both semesters, attention will be given to a number of practical issues confronting advanced graduate students, including: 1) completing field examinations; 2) submitting manuscripts for conferences, journals and book publishers; 3) preparing a curriculum vitae; 4) job search strategies; and 5) preparing for effective professional presentations. It is expected that third year graduate students in Sociology will enroll in 619 in the Fall semester, followed by 620 in the Spring.
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  • SOCI 620: Doctoral Seminar in Sociological Research II

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Furstenberg, Grazian, Jacobs, Schnittker. Prerequisite(s): Third year graduate students. This course is intended to aid in the selection, framing, writing and revising of sociological dissertation proposals. It is also intended to provide a forum for the presentation of dissertation research in progress. The goal is to provide a forum for the acquisition of professional socialization in sociology. We will discuss the framing of research questions, the design of research strategies, and the writing of dissertation proposals. We will discuss the process of submitting manuscripts for conferences and journals, preparing a curriculum vitae, job search strategies, and preparing for effective colloquium presentations. We will also review articles currently under review at the American Sociological Review. It is expected that third year graduate students in Sociology will enroll in this class.
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  • SOCI 621: Mortality

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Elo, Kohler. The course focuses on the description and explanation of health and mortality in human populations and their variability across several dimensions such as age, time, place, social class, race, etc. The course includes general theories of health, mortality and morbidity, investigations of mortality and related processes in developing and developed countries, and discussions of future mortality trends and their implications for individual lives and the society at large.
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  • SOCI 622: Fertility

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Kohler, Smith. The biological, social and demographic factors explaining the levels, trends and differentials in human fertility. Data, measures, and methods used in the context of the more and the less developed countries, with an emphasis on the historical and current course of the fertitlity transition.
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  • SOCI 623: Workshop in Urban Ethnography

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. The ethnographic and sociological interpretation of urban life. Conceptual and methodological issues will be thoroughly discussed. Ongoing projects of participants will be presented in a "workshop" format, thus providing participants the opportunity of learning from and contributing ethnographic work in progress. Selected ethnographic works will be read and assessed.
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  • SOCI 624: Race Relations in American Cities

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. The ethnographic study of race relations in the United States. The social life and culture of urban race relations in the United States will be emphasized, stressing conceptual and Methodological issues. Selected ethnographic literature will be read and discussed. Students will be expected to carry out an ethnographic site study.
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  • SOCI 629: Sociology of Mass Communications

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Wright. Mass communications viewed from sociological perspective. An examination of the sociology of the communicator, audience, content, effects, communication as a social process, linkage between personal and mass communication.
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  • SOCI 630: Advanced Special Topics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Bosk, Charles, Collins, Elo, Zuberi. Topics vary from semester to semester. Course titles include: Race, Colonialism & Methods; Mistakes, Errors, Accidents & Disasters, Graduate Research Practicum.
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  • SOCI 632: Conceptualizing Media Effects

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Katz. The course is a critical review of the major theories of mass communication extracting from each its conception of the audience, the text, and especially the nature of effect. Conceptions of effect are shown to range from short-run change of opinion and attitudes ("what to think") to proposals that the media offer tools "with which to think" (gratifications research; cultural studies), "when to think" (diffusion research), "what to think about" (agenda setting), "how to think" (technological theories), "what not to think" (critical theories), "what to feel" (psychoanalytic theories), and "with whom to think" (sociological theories). Students study the key texts of each theoretical approach, and reappraise the field in the light of new concepts and new evidence.
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  • SOCI 633: Population Processes I

    2.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Elo, Kohler, Preston, Schnittker. Population Processes I and II make up a two-course sequence designed to introduce students to the core areas of demography (fertility, mortality, population aging, and/or migration) and recent developments in the field. PPI is desgined as a survey course to introduce students to a broad set of issues in health and mortality, and individual population aging. The course covers topics in demography and social perspectives on health and mortality in developed and developing countries and topics in population aging, such as global trends in disease, disability, and aging, biologic and social aspects of aging, and health inequalities at older ages. The course format consists of lectures and class discussions. The two course sequence is required of Ph.D. students in Demography. Others interested in enrolling in only one of the courses may do so with the permission of the Chair of the Graduate Group in Demography.
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