printer friendly pageSOC 127: Bargaining, Power, and Influence in Social Interaction (SOC 227)
(Graduate students register for 227.) Research and theoretical work on bargaining, social influence, and issues of power and justice in social settings such as teams, work groups, and organizations. Theoretical approaches to the exercise of power and influence in social groups and related issues in social interaction such as the promotion of cooperation, effects of competition and conflict, negotiation, and intergroup relations. Enrollment limited to 40.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
SOC 138: American Indians in Comparative Historical Perspective (SOC 238)
(Graduate students register for 238.) Demographic, political, and economic processes and events that shaped relations between Euro-Americans and American Indians, 1600-1890. How the intersection of these processes affected the outcome of conflicts between these two groups, and how this conflict was decisive in determining the social position of American Indians in the late 19th century and the evolution of the doctrine of tribal sovereignty.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
SOC 145: Race and Ethnic Relations (SOC 245)
(Graduate students register for 245.) Race and ethnic relations in the U.S. and elsewhere. The processes that render ethnic and racial boundary markers, such as skin color, language, and culture, salient in interaction situations. Why only some groups become targets of ethnic attacks. The social dynamics of ethnic hostility and ethnic/racial protest movements.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
SOC 161: The Social Science of Entrepreneurship (SOC 261)
(Graduate students register for 261.) Who is likely to become an entrepreneur and where is entrepreneurship likely to occur? Classic and contemporary theory and research. Interaction with expert practitioners in creating entrepreneurial opportunities including venture and corporate capitalists. The role of culture, markets, hierarchies, and networks. Market creation and change, and factors that affect success of new organizations. Field projects on entrepreneurial environments such as technology licensing offices, entrepreneurial development organizations, venture capital firms, and corporate venturing groups.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Thornton, P. (PI)
SOC 193: Undergraduate Teaching Apprenticeship
Prior arrangement required.
| Repeatable
20 times
(up to 20 units total)
SOC 206: Political Sociology (SOC 106)
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.
SOC 219: Understanding Large-Scale Societal Change: The Case of the 1960s (SOC 119)
The demographic, economic, political, and cultural roots of social change in the 60s; its legacy in the present U.S.
SOC 223: Sex and Love in Modern Society (SOC 123)
Social influences on private intimate relations involving romantic love and sexuality. Topics include the sexual revolution, contraception, dating, hook-ups, cohabitation, sexual orientation, and changing cultural meanings of marriage, gender, and romantic love.
SOC 225A: Understanding Religion in a Global Context (SOC 125A)
American and western scholarly thought about religion from social and sociological perspectives. Challenges to assumptions in the 21st century. A framework for understanding issues such as global religious movements, religious nationalism, secular nationalism, and violence as a means to religious ends. Topics include American religious history, contemporary American religions, legal and social interpretations of freedom of religion, definitions of religious rights across the global culture, and strategic responses by policymakers.
Instructors:
Chang, P. (PI)
SOC 226: Introduction to Social Networks (SOC 126)
(Graduate students register for 226.) Theory, methods, and research. Concepts such as density, homogeneity, and centrality; applications to substantive areas. The impact of social network structure on individuals and groups in areas such as communities, neighborhoods, families, work life, and innovations.
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