printer friendly pageSOC 230: Education and Society (EDUC 120C, EDUC 220C, SOC 130)
The effects of schools and schooling on individuals, the stratification system, and society. Education as socializing individuals and as legitimizing social institutions. The social and individual factors affecting the expansion of schooling, individual educational attainment, and the organizational structure of schooling.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Ramirez, F. (PI)
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 280A: Foundations of Social Research (SOC 180A)
Formulating a research question, developing hypotheses, probability and non-probability sampling, developing valid and reliable measures, qualitative and quantitative data, choosing research design and data collection methods, challenges of making causal inference, and criteria for evaluating the quality of social research. Emphasis is on how social research is done, rather than application of different methods. Limited enrollment; preference to Sociology and Urban Studies majors, and Sociology coterms.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Parigi, P. (PI)
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Powroznik, K. (PI)
SOC 305: Graduate Proseminar
For first-year Sociology doctoral students only. Introduction and orientation to the field of Sociology.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Zhou, X. (PI)
SOC 308: Social Demography
For graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Topics: models of fertility behavior, migration models, stable population theory, life table analysis, data sources, and measurement problems. How population behavior affects social processes, and how social processes influence population dynamics. Recommended: sociological research methods; basic regression analysis and log linear models.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Snipp, C. (PI)
SOC 311A: Workshop: Comparative Studies of Educational and Political Systems (EDUC 387A)
Analysis of quantitative and longitudinal data on national educational systems and political structures. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Ramirez, F. (PI)
SOC 314: Economic Sociology
Classical and contemporary literature covering the sociological approach to markets and the economy, and comparing it to other disciplines. Topics: consumption, labor, professions, industrial organization, and the varieties of capitalism; historical and comparative perspectives on market and non-market provision of goods and services, and on transitions among economic systems. The relative impact of culture, institutions, norms, social networks, technology, and material conditions. Prerequisite: doctoral student status or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Granovetter, M. (PI)
SOC 315W: Workshop: Economic Sociology and Organizations
Theory, methods, and research in the sociology of the economy and of formal organizations, through presentations of ongoing work by students, faculty, and guest speakers, and discussion of recent literature and controversies. May be repeated for credit. Restricted to Sociology doctoral students; others by consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
15 times
(up to 30 units total)
SOC 321W: Workshop: Social Psychology and Social Structure
Advanced graduate student workshop in social psychology. Current theories and research agendas, recent publications, and presentations of ongoing research by faculty and students. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
20 times
(up to 40 units total)
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