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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An overview of the dynamics of interpersonal influence, social diffusion, network dependence, group cohesion and conflict that drive collective behaviors, with a substantive focus on phenomena of collective action, social exchange, emergence of status hierarchies, cooperation and the origin of social norms.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This mini-seminar surveys the field, exposing you to major research traditions, themes, and specific areas of study. The course will evolve around several debates in the sociological study of culture: relative autonomy vs. dependence, structure vs. agency, instrumentalism vs. expressionism, part vs. whole, synchronic vs. diachronic analysis. These debates will be explored against the theoretical and methodological developments of the field.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The seminar is devoted to discussing selected readings in the Sociology of Religion. Topics include religious practice, discourse and values, selves, communities, gender, race, pluralism, and markets.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Presentation and critical discussion of dissertation research in progress by participants. Focuses on the use of social scientific methods in the study of religion and on applications of recently published work about religion and society. Includes an emphasis on religion and public policy in the U. S. and in comparative perspective.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Introduction to a gendered analysis of economic processes and institutions. Course investigates when, why, and in what ways gender shapes production, consumption, distribution, and transfer of assets. After a general discussion of gender theories, it surveys how gender works in a variety of settings and activities, such as labor markets, intimate economies, and caring labor. We end with an overview of strategies aimed at reducing gendered economic inequalities. Overall, the course attempts to strengthen intellectual bridges between economic sociology and gender scholarship.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An introduction to economic sociology seen not as a subordination of sociology to economics but as the sociological explanation of economic phenomena. It focuses on alternative accounts of phenomena that most specialists have explained using economic concepts and theory. In particular, it seeks sociological explanations of production, consumption, and distribution, and transfer of assets. After a general orientation to economic sociology as a whole, the course explores economic activities in an unconventionally wide range of settings including households, informal sectors, gift economies, and consumption.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An introduction to the study of complex organizations. Course goals are (1) to familiarize you with recent organizational scholarship; and (2) to help you apply critical insights from this research to empirical analyses involving organizations. The course considers a range of issues: Why and how are organizations created? Why do organizations fail? What explains the variety (or lack thereof) among organizational forms, processes, and goals? Who benefits from organizational activities? How do environments influence organizations? What is the broader role of organizations in modern society?
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Course provides graduate students with an introduction to social networks. Course focuses on providing students the knowledge needed to conduct their own research. No mathematical background required, and graduate students from other disciplines are welcome.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A two-semester course for graduate students whose work is at the intersection of the fields of organization studies, economic sociology and social network analysis. In addition to covering foundational readings in these fields and addressing selected special topics (e.g. social organizational aspects of economic crisis), the workshop provides opportunities for students to develop research projects and presentation skills, and to read the work of and interact with scholars brought to campus by the Center for the Study of Social Organization.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
First in a sequence of four modules designed to train graduate students in ethnographic methods. This class introduces students to classical and contemporary works of ethnography that exemplify the contributions this method has made to sociological theory. Weekly readings are drawn from texts on topics such as the social ecology of the city, the study of the self, race and ethnicity, organizational ethnography, disasters, and social movements. Students who select to do original research papers over the course of the entire sequence begin their preparation in this class.
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