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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
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Szelenyi, S. (PI)
SOC 45Q: Understanding Race and Ethnicity in American Society
Preference to sophomores. Historical overview of race in America, race and violence, race and socioeconomic well-being, and the future of race relations in America. Enrollment limited to 16.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Snipp, C. (PI)
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
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Rosenfeld, M. (PI)
SOC 100ASB: Pre-field Course for Alternative Spring Break
Limited to students participating in the Alternative Spring Break program. See
http://asb.stanford.edu for more information.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Jimenez, T. (PI)
SOC 100SI: Student Initiated Course
Understanding North Korea in the 21st century.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 1 units total)
Instructors:
Shin, G. (PI)
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
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
England, P. (PI)
;
Juel, C. (PI)
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.
Last offered: Spring 2009
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
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
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Parigi, P. (PI)
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
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Meyersson Milgrom, E. (PI)
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.
Last offered: Winter 2004
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
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