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3.00 Credits
This seminar focuses on literature pertaining to collective, extra-institutional efforts to form new or maintain old forms of social order in the United States and other countries. While specific content might vary in response to instructors' interests and department demands, attention will be given to such issues as movement emergence, maintenance, and transformation, labor and resource mobilization, social networks, organization cultures, movement identities and ideologies, social problems construction, strategies and tactics development, as well as the relative success of social movement activities. The seminar can include illustrative material from a variety of social movements and counter-movements (e.g., political, lifestyle, religious, etc.) Prereq: Graduate standing in sociology or other graduate department.
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3.00 Credits
Consideration of central conceptual issues underlying the construction of various sociological theories and their explanatory frameworks. A systematic exploration of the development and application of central conceptual frameworks of the discipline. Prereq: Consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive examination of the ideas and continuing significance of leading nineteenth century sociological theorists. The work of Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel is given particular attention. Discussion concerns the contents of their writings, the sociohistorical context in which they were developed, and their applicability to contemporary society. Prereq: SOC 650 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A survey and critical evaluation of family macro and micro theories. The course will include (a) a historical perspective on the development of family theory; (b) the prevalent macro theories/conceptual frameworks in use in the field; and (c) current trends in the development of micro, or middle-range, family theories. Prereq: FAM 652. (Same as FAM 653.)
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3.00 Credits
A study of schooling and education using basic analytic paradigms of sociology. Emphasis on schools as formal organizations and education in a changing, technologically oriented and stratified society. Prereq: SOC 101 or equivalent. (Same as EPE 661.)
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4.00 Credits
An overview of the various methods and techniques, both quantitative and qualitative, used by sociologists, including experience in the use of various methods. Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours per week. Prereq: Six graduate hours in sociology or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Problem definition and delimitation, design appropriate to problem and data, and selection of appropriate analysis techniques; critical examination of representative research studies. Prereq: Elementary statistics.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
A focused treatment of one or more issues, topics, or problems in sociological methods such as time-series analysis, causal analysis, participant observation, conduct of experiments, sociohistorical methods, scale construction, etc. May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits. Prereq: SOC 681 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
A critical analysis of the concepts, methods, and practices of farming systems research. Design and carry out an FSR project. Prereq: Graduate standing in the social or agricultural sciences. (Same as ANT 684.)
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3.00 Credits
This seminar will analyze the structural transformation of U.S. agriculture in the 19th and 20th centuries in the context of sociological theory. Emphasis is given to key historical transitions, changing social relations of production and state policy. Such emphases provide a framework for understanding the historical roots and future prospects for the socioeconomic problems confronting contemporary U.S. agriculture. Prereq: Graduate standing in sociology/agricultural economics or consent of instructor. (Same as AEC 691.)
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