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This course focuses on the link between social movements and political change in the modern world. Since the French revolution, such movvements have played decisive roles both in extending democratic rights and overturning enchenched elites in recent history, as well as in some cases driving more authoritarian outcomes. Social movements arise outside official channels and against established political orders. The course familiarizes students with a sociological approach to social movements and the "waves of democracy" and sometimes authoritarianism they often give rise to, as well as the political revolutions they soemtimes help to bring about. We finsih by situating transnational movements in relation to globalization.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Application of the scientific method to social data; definitions, concepts, and hypotheses; research design; techniques of collection and analysis of data. Preq - Intro to Sociology
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3.00 Credits
Applied research in sociology. Understanding societal concepts through experiments (laboratory and field) and recitation. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied.
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3.00 Credits
Applied research in sociology. Understanding societal concepts through experiments (laboratory and field) and recitation. Students may elect this course several times, provided different topics are studied.
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The effects Jews have had on American society and how American society has influenced Judaism; mechanisms used by Jews and other religious groups to thwart change or to adapt to the host culture: membership in associations and organizations, political behavior and lobbies, links with Israel. Relationships between Jews and other societal groups. In the honors version, each student reviews research literature on Jews in America, Israel, and/or another geographic location; comes up with a research design; and implements the collection of data. As a group, students critique all projects, reinforcing their knowledge of several methodological techniques as well as becoming informed about scientific investigations relevant to various aspects of contemporary Jewish life.
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3.00 Credits
The effects Jews have had on American society and how American society has influenced Judaism; mechanisms used by Jews and other religious groups to thwart change or to adapt to the host culture: membership in associations and organizations, political behavior and lobbies, links with Israel. Relationships between Jews and other societal groups. In the honors version, each student reviews research literature on Jews in America, Israel, and/or another geographic location; comes up with a research design; and implements the collection of data. As a group, students critique all projects, reinforcing their knowledge of several methodological techniques as well as becoming informed about scientific investigations relevant to various aspects of contemporary Jewish life.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the multiple definitions and understandings of ethnicity, focusing particularly on ethnic groups in the United States, in the early twentieth century. The course examines Patterns of assimilation, acculturation, and multiculturalism, the relationships among ethnic groups and between minority ethnic groups and the dominant society and the nature and causes of ethnic prejudice and discrimination.
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3.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary course examining humanistic, oral, and written expression transmitted among sociocultural groups. Also explores the origins, forms, variant interpretations, methods of communication (including contemporary means such as the Internet and film), and social-psychological functions of various types of folklore and midrash.
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