printer friendly pageSOC 333: Law and Wikinomics: The Economic and Social Organization of the Legal Profession (SOC 133)
(Graduate and Law students enroll in 333.) Seminar. Emphasis is on the labor market for large-firm lawyers, including the market for entry-level lawyers, attorney retention and promotion practices, lateral hiring of partners, and increased use of forms of employment such as the non-equity form of partnership. Race and gender discrimination and occupational segregation; market-based pressure tactics for organizational reform. Students groups collect and analyze data about the profession and its markets. Multimedia tools for analysis and for producing workplace reforms. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Last offered: Spring 2013
| Repeatable
for credit
SOC 339: Gender Meanings and Processes
Current theories and research on the social processes, such as socialization, status processes, stereotyping, and cognition, that produce gender difference and inequality. Intersections of gender with race, class, and bodies. Applications to workplaces, schools, families, and intimate relationships. Prerequisite: Sociology doctoral student or consent of instructor
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Correll, S. (PI)
SOC 340W: CPI Workshop (SOC 240W)
A workshop devoted to presenting ongoing research on poverty and inequality in the United States. Open to all students interested in (a) building a better infrastructure for monitoring poverty and inequality, (b) building cutting-edge models of the causes and consequences of poverty and inequality, and (b) building better policy to reduce poverty and inequality. Required for all National Poverty Fellows funded by the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-2
Instructors:
Grusky, D. (PI)
SOC 341W: Workshop: Inequality
Causes, consequences, and structure of inequality; how inequality results from and shapes social classes, occupations, professions, and other aspects of the economy. Research presentations by students, faculty, and guest speakers. Discussion of controversies, theories, and recent writings. May be repeated for credit. Restricted to Sociology doctoral students; others by consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Grusky, D. (PI)
;
Jackson, M. (PI)
SOC 348: Advanced Topics in the Sociology of Gender
Seminar for graduate students who have research projects in progress that focus on questions about gender and society. Research projects can be at any stage from the initial development to the final writing up of results. Focus is on questions posed by the research projects of the seminar participants. Readings include relevant background to each other's questions and present their own work in progress. A final paper reports the progress on the seminar member's research project.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
10 times
(up to 5 units total)
Instructors:
Ridgeway, C. (PI)
SOC 350: Sociology of Race
Emphasis on cultural approaches that focus on meaning and meaning-making in the realm of race and race relations. Issues and complications in conceptualizing and theorizing race. Differentiation, organization, and stratification by race across a range of domains. Identity, political and economic participation, group solidarity. Prerequisite: Sociology doctoral student or consent of instructor
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Snipp, C. (PI)
SOC 350W: Workshop: Migration, Race, Ethnicity and Nation
Current theories and research, 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: 1-3
| Repeatable
20 times
(up to 60 units total)
Instructors:
Fields, C. (PI)
;
Jimenez, T. (PI)
SOC 354: Welfare State (SOC 254)
This seminar introduces students to the key literature, questions, and debates about the modern welfare state. Emergence, growth, and purported demise of the welfare state. American welfare state in comparative perspective. Social and political factors affecting state development including political parties, labor markets, gender, demographic change, and immigration.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Dauber, M. (PI)
SOC 359: Organizations and Uncertainty
Organizations and environments characterized by institutional uncertainty. Beliefs at the roots of shared routines and institutional myths are absent. Institutionalists and neo-institutionalists, organizations facing uncertain institutional environments.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Parigi, P. (PI)
SOC 361: Social Psychology of Organizations
Seminar. Social psychological theories and research relevant to organizational behavior. Current research topics; theories in micro-organizational behavior. Topics include models of attribution, choice and decision making, intergroup behavior, stereotyping, and social influence. Prerequisites: Ph.D student; graduate-level social psychology course.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Heath, C. (PI)
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