printer friendly pageSOC 165: Seminar on the Everday Lives of Immigrants (SOC 265)
Everyday experience of immigrants and the immigrant second generation through the ethnographic lens. Ethnographies that focus on the immigrant experience. Limited enrollment.
SOC 177D: Economic Elites in the 21st Century
While absolute world poverty has declined considerably in the last twenty years, elites have gained disproportionately from the growth of the global economy, leading to serious concerns about inequality and to protests against the 1% in several countries. This course addresses the role of economic elites in the world economy and their relationship to global inequality. Topics include the evolution and consequences of global inequality, the composition and concentration of economic elites in various countries, and economic elites' influence on global governance and the world economy.
Instructors:
Young, P. (PI)
SOC 181B: Sociological Methods: Statistics (SOC 281B)
(Graduate students register for 281B.) Statistical methods of relevance to sociology: contingency tables, correlation, and regression.
SOC 200: Junior/Senior Seminar for Majors
For Sociology majors. Capstone course in which sociological problems are framed, linked to theories, and answers pursued through research designs. Independent research. How to formulate a research question; how to integrate theory and methods. Prerequisites:
SOC 170, 180B.
SOC 201: Preparation for Senior Project (URBANST 201)
First part of capstone experience for Urban Studies majors pursuing an internship-based research project or honors thesis. Assignments culminate in a research proposal, which may be submitted for funding. Students also identify and prepare for a related internship, normally to begin in Spring Quarter in
URBANST 201B or in Summer. Research proposed in the final assignment may be carried out in Spring or Summer Quarter; consent required for Autumn Quarter research. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
SOC 216: Chinese Organizations and Management (SOC 116)
Seminar for advanced undergraduates and all graduate students.
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 224: The New Science of Right and Wrong: The Social Psychology of Morality and Justice (SOC 124)
Social psychology class focusing on topics related to morality, broadly defined (generosity, moral reasoning, discrimination, obedience, deviance, political psychology.
SOC 224B: Microsociology: Social Structure and Interaction (EDUC 312B)
How to interpret interpersonal situations using microsociological theories. Focuses on the role of intention, identity, routines, scripts, rituals, conceptual frameworks, talk and emotions in social interaction. Processes by which interactions reverberate outward to transform groups and social structures. Special consideration will be placed on organizational contexts like schools, workplaces and policy decision arenas.
SOC 227: Bargaining, Power, and Influence in Social Interaction (SOC 127)
(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.
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