printer friendly pageSOC 236: Sociology of Law (SOC 136)
(Graduate students register for 236) Major issues and debates. Topics include: historical perspectives on the origins of law; rationality and legal sanctions; normative decision making and morality; cognitive decision making; crime and deviance; the law in action versus the law on the books; organizational responses to law in the context of labor and employment; the roles of lawyers, judges, and juries; and law and social change emphasizing the American civil rights movement.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Dauber, M. (PI)
SOC 240: Introduction to Social Stratification (SOC 140)
(Graduate students register for 240.) The main classical and modern explanations of the causes of social, economic, and political inequality. Issues include: power; processes that create and maintain inequality; the central axes of inequality in contemporary societies (race, ethnicity, class, and gender); the consequences of inequality for individuals and groups; and how social policy can mitigate and exacerbate inequality. Cases include technologically simple groups, the Indian caste system, and the modern U.S.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Grusky, D. (PI)
SOC 241: Controversies about Inequality (SOC 141)
(Graduate students register for 241.) Debate format involving Stanford and guest faculty. Forms of inequality including racial, ethnic, and gender stratification; possible policy interventions. Topics such as welfare reform, immigration policy, affirmative action, discrimination in labor markets, sources of income inequality, the duty of rich nations to help poor nations, and causes of gender inequality.
Last offered: Autumn 2010
SOC 242: Sociology of Gender (FEMGEN 142, FEMGEN 242, SOC 142)
(Graduate students register for 242.) Gender inequality in contemporary American society and how it is maintained. The social and relative nature of knowledge and the problems this poses for understanding sex differences and gendered behavior in society. Analytical levels of explanation for gender inequalities: socialization, interaction processes, and socioeconomic processes; arguments and evidence for each approach. The social consequences of gender inequality such as the feminization of poverty, and problems of interpersonal relations.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Fisk, S. (PI)
SOC 248: Comparative Ethnic Conflict (CSRE 148, SOC 148)
Causes and consequences of racial and ethnic conflict, including nationalist movements, ethnic genocide, civil war, ethnic separatism, politics, indigenous peoples' movements, and minority rights movements around the world.
Last offered: Winter 2013
SOC 249: The Urban Underclass (SOC 149, URBANST 112)
(Graduate students register for 249.) Recent research and theory on the urban underclass, including evidence on the concentration of African Americans in urban ghettos, and the debate surrounding the causes of poverty in urban settings. Ethnic/racial conflict, residential segregation, and changes in the family structure of the urban poor.
Last offered: Winter 2013
SOC 251: From the Cradle to the Grave: How Demographic Processes Shape the Social World (SOC 151)
(Graduate students register for 251.) Comparative analysis of historical, contemporary, and anticipated demographic change. Draws on case studies from around the world to explore the relationship between social structure and population dynamics. Introduces demographic measures, concepts and theory. Course combines lecture and seminar-style discussion.
Last offered: Spring 2013
SOC 252: The Social Determinants of Health (SOC 152)
How social differences, such as where we live, whether and how we work, or how much money we make, and our gender, race or ethnicity, also play a role in who gets sick and who does not.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Saperstein, A. (PI)
SOC 255: The Changing American Family (FEMGEN 155, FEMGEN 255, SOC 155)
Family change from historical, social, demographic, and legal perspectives. Extramarital cohabitation, divorce, later marriage, interracial marriage, and same-sex cohabitation. The emergence of same-sex marriage as a political issue. Are recent changes in the American family really as dramatic as they seem? Theories about what causes family systems to change.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Rosenfeld, M. (PI)
SOC 257: Causal Inference in Quantitative Educational and Social Science Research (EDUC 255B)
Quantitative methods to make causal inferences in the absence of randomized experiment including the use of natural and quasi-experiments, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, matching estimators, longitudinal methods, fixed effects estimators, and selection modeling. Assumptions implicit in these approaches, and appropriateness in research situations. Students develop research proposals relying on these methods. Prerequisites: exposure to quantitative research methods; multivariate regression.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Dee, T. (PI)
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Valant, J. (PI)
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