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SOC 241: Controversies about Inequality
5.00 Credits
Stanford University
(Same as SOC 141. Graduate students register for 241.) Debate format involving Stanford and guest faculty. Forms of inequality including racial, ethnic, and gender stratification; possible policy interventions. Topics such as welfare reform, immigration policy, affirmative action, discrimination in labor markets, sources of income inequality, the duty of rich nations to help poor nations, and causes of gender inequality. 5 units, Spr (Grusky, D)
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SOC 242: Sociology of Gender
5.00 Credits
Stanford University
(Same as SOC 142. Graduate students register for 242.) Gender inequality in contemporary American society and how it is maintained. The social and relative nature of knowledge and the problems this poses for understanding sex differences and gendered behavior in society. Analytical levels of explanation for gender inequalities: socialization, interaction processes, and socioeconomic processes; arguments and evidence for each approach. The social consequences of gender inequality such as the feminization of poverty, and problems of interpersonal relations. 5 units, Win (Correll, S)
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SOC 243: Poverty in Brazil:From Empirical Evidence to Antipoverty Policies
5.00 Credits
Stanford University
(Same as SOC 143.) The evolution of poverty in Brazil. Poverty indexes, profiles, indicators; income approach, establishment, and use of poverty lines. The working poor, informality, and education. Social security and targeted transfers. The design of anti-poverty policies. 5 units, Spr (Rocha, S)
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SOC 245: Race and Ethnic Relations
5.00 Credits
Stanford University
(Same as SOC 145. Graduate students register for 245.) Race and ethnic relations in the U.S. and elsewhere. The processes that render ethnic and racial boundary markers, such as skin color, language, and culture, salient in interaction situations. Why only some groups become targets of ethnic attacks. The social dynamics of ethnic hostility and ethnic/racial protest movements. 5 units, not given this year
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SOC 247A: Comparative Ethnic Conflict
5.00 Credits
Stanford University
(Same as SOC 147A.) Causes and consequences of racial and ethnic conflict, including nationalist movements, ethnic genocide, civil war, ethnic separatism, politics, indigenous peoples' movements, and minority rights movements around the world. 5 units, not given this year
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SOC 248: Racial Identity
5.00 Credits
Stanford University
(Same as SOC 148.) The construction and meanings of racial identities in the U.S. Attention is on multiracial identities and the shifting boundaries of racial categories in contemporary America. 5 units, Win (McDermott, M)
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SOC 249: The Urban Underclass
5.00 Credits
Stanford University
(Same as SOC 149, URBANST 112. Graduate students register for 249.) Recent research and theory on the urban underclass, including evidence on the concentration of African Americans in urban ghettos, and the debate surrounding the causes of poverty in urban settings. Ethnic/racial conflict, residential segregation, and changes in the family structure of the urban poor. 5 units, Spr (Rosenfeld, M)
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SOC 249X: Urban Politics
5.00 Credits
Stanford University
(Same as POLISCI 121, SOC 149X, URBANST 111.) The major actors, institutions, processes, and policies of sub-state government in the U.S., emphasizing city general-purpose governments through a comparative examination of historical and contemporary politics. Issues related to federalism, representation, voting, race, poverty, housing, and finances. Prerequisite: POLISCI 2 or consent of instructor. 5 units, not given this year
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SOC 255: The Changing American Family
5.00 Credits
Stanford University
(Same as SOC 155.) Family change from historical, social, demographic, and legal perspectives. Extramarital cohabitation, divorce, later marriage, interracial marriage, and same-sex cohabitation. The emergence of same-sex marriage as a political issue. Are recent changes in the American family really as dramatic as they seem Theories about what causes family systems to change. 5 units, Spr (Rosenfeld, M)
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SOC 257: Causal Inference in Quantitative Educational and Social Science Research
3.00 Credits
Stanford University
(Same as EDUC 257C.) Quantitative methods to make causal inferences in the absence of randomized experiment including the use of natural and quasi-experiments, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, matching estimators, longitudinal methods, fixed effects estimators, and selection modeling. Assumptions implicit in these approaches, and appropriateness in research situations. Students develop research proposals relying on these methods. Prerequisites: exposure to quantitative research methods; multivariate regression. 3-5 units, Spr (Reardon, S)
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