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For students doing advanced research. Group comments and criticism on dissertation projects at any phase of completion, including data problems, empirical and theoretical challenges, presentation refinement, and job market presentations. Collaboration, debate, and shaping research ideas. Prerequisite: courses in organizational theory or social network analysis.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Powell, W. (PI)
SOC 362: Organization and Environment
This seminar considers the leading sociological approaches to analyzing relations of organizations and environments, with a special emphasis on dynamics. Attention is given to theoretical formulations, research designs, and results of empirical studies. Prerequisite: Enrollment in a PhD program.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Rao, H. (PI)
SOC 363A: Seminar on Organizational Theory (EDUC 375A, MS&E 389)
The social science literature on organizations assessed through consideration of the major theoretical traditions and lines of research predominant in the field.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Powell, W. (PI)
SOC 363B: Seminar on Organizations: Institutional Analysis (EDUC 375B)
Seminar. Key lines of inquiry on organizational change, emphasizing network, institutional, and evolutionary arguments.
Last offered: Spring 2008
SOC 366A: Organizational Ecology (OB 601)
This seminar examines theoretical and methodological issues in the study of the ecology of organizations. Particular attention is given to the dynamics that characterize the interface between organizational populations and their audiences.
Last offered: Winter 2016
SOC 367: Institutional Analysis of Organizations
Reading and research on the nature, origins, and effects of the modern institutional system. Emphasis is on the effects of institutional systems on organizational structure.
Last offered: Winter 2009
SOC 367A: Graduate Seminar on Organizations and Networks
This graduate seminar surveys recent developments in research activities at the intersection of organizations and networks. The goals of the seminar are to examine ongoing research activities, related theoretical ideas and research design, and to identify unresolved intellectual problems for future research. Topics include: (1) networks within organizational hierarchy; (2) inter-organizational networks such as strategic alliance and knowledge diffusion; (3) models of hierarchical networks.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Zhou, X. (PI)
SOC 368W: Workshop: China Social Science (POLISCI 448R)
For Ph.D. students in the social sciences and history. Research on contemporary society and politics in the People's Republic of China. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
SOC 369: Social Network Methods (EDUC 316)
Introduction to social network theory, methods, and research applications in sociology. Network concepts of interactionist (balance, cohesion, centrality) and structuralist (structural equivalence, roles, duality) traditions are defined and applied to topics in small groups, social movements, organizations, communities. Students apply these techniques to data on schools and classrooms.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
SOC 370A: Sociological Theory: Social Structure, Inequality, and Conflict
Restricted to Sociology doctoral students.The traditions of structural analysis derived from the work of Marx, Weber, and related thinkers. Antecedent ideas in foundational works are traced through contemporary theory and research on political conflict, social stratification, formal organization, and the economy. Priority is given to first year Sociology students
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Fields, C. (PI)
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Stewart, S. (PI)
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