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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to social networks. Topics include the small-world puzzle (six degrees of separation), the strength of weak ties, centrality, data collection, and the spread of diseases and fads. These concepts and others will then be used to understand empirical research on phenomena including finding a job, the spread of HIV/AIDS, and cooperative relationships between firms in the Garment District in New York.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
New Jersey's Bruce Springsteen and his E-Street Band chronicle life in the U.S. focusing on a range of topics from loneliness, community, and freedom, to teenage pregnancy, street car racing, girl watching, and the plight of veterans. Each Monday lecture will begin with one or more songs in order to focus on what sociology says about the issues they raise. During the Wednesday sessions, guests who have led lives like a character in that week's song will be interviewed in class. In keeping with Springsteen's commitment to local community and to his home state of New Jersey, the class will make a required field trip to Atlantic City.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course examines the classical foundations of the sociology of religion and the different theoretical traditions within this field. The course then turns its attention to contemporary applications of these analytical approaches, focusing on the significance of religion in present-day politics, family life, race, economic development, and immigration.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course seeks to provide a sociological account of crime and punishment. Why do people commit crime? How should we respond to crime? How has crime policy changed over the past several decades? What are the consequences of recent crime policy? By reading classic and contemporary sociological research, policy analysis, and media coverage, we will explore the themes of crime and punishment in contemporary society.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Sociology has always been engaged in the study of law and, in this course, we will examine law with the tools of sociology. In Segment I, The Building Blocks of Social Life, we will explore the ways in which law provides a crucial basis for social organization at the micro-, mid-level, and macro- levels of society. We will also explore the relationship between legal norms and the moral commitments of societies and social elites. In Segment II: The Legal Organization of Social Sectors, the course takes up the legal construction of race, gender, and class, and explores the legal basis for the creation of crime, money, citizenship and terrorism.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Our goal in this course is (a) to understand various definitions of race and ethnicity from a theoretical perspective and in a plurality of contexts and (b) to account for the rise of ethnicity and race as political and cultural forces in the age of globalization. Why are ethnic and racial delimitations expanding in areas of the world where such distinctions were formerly muted? Is race and racial discrimination all the same regardless of geographical region? What are the main theories and methodologies now available for the study of race and ethnicity from a comparative point of view? These are among the questions our course aims to answer.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A historical and analytical overview of war focusing on the origins and consequences of organized violence, the experience of battle, the creation and behavior of warriors, and the future of such conflicts.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This is a course on the logic of social research. We discuss how sociologists apply a specific approach of inquiry we call "science" to analyze and explain social behavior. While surveying a wide range of methods, we will learn how research questions can be answered by using various combinations of theory, methods, and data. Three assumptions about society will be examined: 1) Durkheimian notion of "society as a thing"; 2) society as a composite of variables; 3) society as a meaning-producing process. Students will learn how to formulate a research question and how to marshal empirical data to make a sociological argument.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Most research in sociology is quantitative, and it is important for students at a minimum to be able to critically evaluate published quantitative research. Ideally, students should also be able to conduct empirical research involving statistical methods. This course provides the foundation for both goals. The course focuses specifically on how to determine, apply, and interpret statistical methods appropriate for answering a sociological research question given a particular set of data. Basic probability theory is introduced as a building block of statistical reasoning, and a variety of commonly-used statistical tests are developed.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course seeks to provide a thorough understanding of the ideas of the three "classical" social thinkers whose work has been foundational for sociological analysis: Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, and Max Weber. Class sessions will explore each thinker's major concepts, the larger arguments that he builds from the concepts, and the distinctive manner in which he proposes analyzing the social world.
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