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3.00 Credits
(Same as EDUC 103A, EDUC 203A, SOC 203A.) Experience tutoring grade school readers in a low income community near Stanford under supervision. Training in tutoring; the role of instruction in developing literacy; challenges facing low income students and those whose first language is not English. How to see school and print through the eyes of a child. Ravenswood Reads tutors encouraged to enroll. GER:DB-SocSci 4 units, Aut (Juel, C; England, P)
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5.00 Credits
Classical and contemporary issues and debates. The effects of a changing workplace on individual workers in the U.S. Topics include: classical issues such as bureaucracy, alienation, and life in the industrial corporation; and contemporary issues such as managerial and professional work, the increase in service work and contracting, globalization, gender and race in the workplace, and maintaining a work/life balance. 5 units, Aut (Parker, A)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as SOC 205D.) Preference to undergraduates and master's students. Interdisciplinary: law and the social sciences. Major areas in American criminal procedure, including juries, search and seizure, Miranda rights, racial profiling, and the right to counsel. The changing state of the law. Sources include major cases and the work of legal scholars. Social sciences perspectives on how the law works: how reliable are suspects' confessions; do juries listen to expert witnesses; do race and class affect how the police treat people; should social science have a role in deciding what the law should be Limited enrollment. 5 units, Sum (TafollaYoung, K), given once only
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5.00 Credits
(Same as SOC 206.) The body of state rules and institutions that work in generating legitimate and illegitimate policy claims. Interests and identities that challenged the capacity of the national state to produce effective policies. Economic processes above the national level have that undermine the role of the state as the arena for the composition of disparate interests. GER:DB-SocSci 5 units, Win (Parigi, P)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as SOC 206D.) The debate on the meaning of race in the U.S. by examining past and present race relations, trends within the emerging multiracial population, and the implications that this new population has on the significance of race in contemporary society. The growing visibility of multiraciality is seen as a sign that race does not matter as much as it did in the past versus evidence that race continues to affect people's lives including those with mixed race backgrounds. Sources include academia and popular media. 5 units, Sum (Ku, M), given once only
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5.00 Credits
(Same as SOC 207.) China's post-1976 recovery from the late Mao era; its reorientation toward an open market-oriented economy; the consequences of this new model and runaway economic growth for standards of living, social life, inequality, and local governance; the political conflicts that have accompanied these changes. GER:DBSocSci 5 units, Spr (Walder, A)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as SOC 208.) The differences between historical and sociological analysis of past events. The difference between constructing sociological explanations and describing past events. Topics include: the rise of Christianity, the mafia in a Sicilian village, the trade network of the East India Company. GER:DBSocSci 5 units, Aut (Parigi, P)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as SOC 210. Graduate students register for 210.) Themes of political sociology, conceptions of power and state structures throughout history, the origins and expansion of the modern state, linkages between state and society, impact of the modern world system on national policies, internal distribution of power and authority, structure of political group formation and individual participation in modern states, and future trends of politics and society in a globalized world. Emphasis is on developing conceptual understandings of state, society, and politics in the modern world. GER:DB-SocSci 5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
(Same as SOC 214. Graduate students register for 214.) The sociological approach to production, distribution, consumption, and markets, emphasizing the impact of norms, power, social structure, and institutions on the economy. Comparison of classic and contemporary approaches to the economy among the social science disciplines. Topics: consumption, labor markets, organization of professions such as law and medicine, the economic role of informal networks, industrial organization, including the structure and history of the computer and popular music industries, business alliances, capitalism in non-Western societies, and the transition from state socialism in E. Europe and China. GER:DB-SocSci 5 units, Aut (Granovetter, M)
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3.00 Credits
(Same as SOC 315. Graduate students register for 315.) Discussion of topics initially explored in 114/214, with emphasis on countries and cultures outside N. America. Possible topics: families and ethnic groups in the economy, corporate governance and control, corporate strategy, relations among firms in industrial districts and business groups, the impact of national institutions and cultures on economic outcomes, transitions from state socialism and the role of the state in economic development. Possible case studies: the U.S., Germany, Italy, Britain, France, Brazil, Korea, India, Japan, and China. Prerequisite: 114/214 or 314. GER:DB-SocSci 5 units, Win (Granovetter, M)
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