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Concepts, methods, and theoretical orientations. Sociological imagination illustrated by recent theory and research. Possible topics: the persistence of class cleavages; ethnic, racial, and gender inequalities; religious beliefs and the process of secularization; functions and dysfunctions of educational institutions; criminology and social deviance; social movements and social protest; production and reproduction of culture; rise of organizational society.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Ltr-CR/NC
Instructors: Szelenyi, S.
SOC 45Q: Understanding Race and Ethnicity in American Society
Preference to sophomores. A brief historical overview of race in America, race and violence, race and socioeconomic wellbeing, and the future of race relations in America. Enrollment limited to 16.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Letter
Instructors: Snipp, C.
SOC 46N: Race, Ethnic, and National Identities: Imagined Communities
Preference to freshmen. How new identities are created and legitimated. What does it mean to try on a different identity? National groups and ethnic groups are so large that one individual can know only an infinitesimal fraction of other group members. What explains the seeming coherence of groups? If identities are a product of the imagination, why are people willing to fight and die for them? Enrollment limited to 16.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Letter
Instructors: Rosenfeld, M.
SOC 103A: Tutoring: Seeing a Child through Literacy (EDUC 103A, EDUC 203A, SOC 203A)
Experience tutoring grade school readers in a low income community near Stanford under supervision. Training in tutoring; the role of instruction in developing literacy; challenges facing low income students and those whose first language is not English. How to see school and print through the eyes of a child. Ravenswood Reads tutors encouraged to enroll.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Ltr-CR/NC
Instructors: England, P.; Juel, C.
SOC 106: Political Sociology (SOC 206)
The body of state rules and institutions that work in generating legitimate and illegitimate policy claims. Interests and identities that challenged the capacity of the national state to produce effective policies. Economic processes above the national level have that undermine the role of the state as the arena for the composition of disparate interests.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Ltr-CR/NC
SOC 107: China After Mao (SOC 207)
China's post-1976 recovery from the late Mao era; its reorientation toward an open market-oriented economy; the consequences of this new model and runaway economic growth for standards of living, social life, inequality, and local governance; the political conflicts that have accompanied these changes.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Ltr-CR/NC
SOC 108: Historical Sociology (SOC 208)
The differences between historical and sociological analysis of past events. The difference between constructing sociological explanations and describing past events. Topics include: the rise of Christianity, the mafia in a Sicilian village, the trade network of the East India Company.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Ltr-CR/NC
Instructors: Parigi, P.
SOC 109: Sociology of Terrorism (PUBLPOL 119, SOC 209)
Multidisciplinary, including psychology, sociology, political science,and economics. Comparison of terrorist organizations and movements across institutions, places, and times; their motives, tactics, financing, and organization. Guest lecturers. Sources include movies, novels, and research literature.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Letter
Instructors: Meyersson Milgrom, E.
SOC 110: Politics and Society (SOC 210)
(Graduate students register for 210.) Themes of political sociology, conceptions of power and state structures throughout history, the origins and expansion of the modern state, linkages between state and society, impact of the modern world system on national policies, internal distribution of power and authority, structure of political group formation and individual participation in modern states, and future trends of politics and society in a globalized world. Emphasis is on developing conceptual understandings of state, society, and politics in the modern world.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Ltr-CR/NC
SOC 114: Economic Sociology (SOC 214)
(Graduate students register for 214.) The sociological approach to production, distribution, consumption, and markets, emphasizing the impact of norms, power, social structure, and institutions on the economy. Comparison of classic and contemporary approaches to the economy among the social science disciplines. Topics: consumption, labor markets, organization of professions such as law and medicine, the economic role of informal networks, industrial organization, including the structure and history of the computer and popular music industries, business alliances, capitalism in non-Western societies, and the transition from state socialism in E. Europe and China.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Ltr-CR/NC
Instructors: Granovetter, M.
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