SOC 188D. Latin America: Society and Politics
Course focuses on the different types of social structures and political systems in Latin America. Topics
include positions in the world economy, varieties of class structure and ethnic cleavages, political regimes, mobilization and legitimacy, class alignments, reform and revolution.

SOC 189. Special Topics in Comparative-Historical Sociology (Ethnicity and Indigenous People in Latin America)
Readings and discussion in selected areas of comparative and historical macro-sociology. Topics may include the analysis of a particular research problem, the study of a specific society or of cross-national institutions, and the review of different theoretical perspectives. Contents will vary from year to year.

SOC 248. Latin American Societies: Social Classes and State Policies in a Comparative Perspective
(Same as IP/GEN 474.) Focuses on class structures, political mobilization, and government policies (economic and social policies in particular) in selected South American countries. Special attention will be
given to the interaction between domestic and external economic and political processes.

General Seminars

SOC 201A. Classical Sociological Theory I
A discussion of major themes in the work of Tocqueville and Marx.

SOC 201B. Classical Sociological Theory II
A discussion of major themes in the work of Weber and Durkheim.

SOC 203. Field Methods
Research will be conducted in field settings. The primary focus will be on mastering the problems and technical skills associated with the conduct of ethnographic and participant observational studies.

SOC 204.Text and Discourse Analysis
Techniques of gathering and analyzing transcripts of naturally occurring conversations, interviews, discourse in institutional settings, public political discourse, and text of historical materials.

SOC 205. Quantitative Methods I
This course covers some of the elementary techniques used 1) to select random samples, 2) to detect statistical patterns in the sample data, and 3) to determine whether any patterns found in sample data are statistically significant. The course also stresses the benefits and drawbacks of survey and aggregate data and some common ways in which these data are used incorrectly.

SOC 206. Quantitative Methods II
The course covers some of the more advanced techniques used 1) to select random samples, 2) to detect statistical patterns in the sample data, and 3) to determine whether any patterns found in sample data are statistically significant. The course also stresses the benefits and drawbacks of survey and aggregate data and some common ways in which these data are used incorrectly.

SOC 207. Comparative-Historical Methods
A broad-based consideration of the use of historical materials in sociological analysis, especially as this facilitates empirically oriented studies across different societies and through time.

SOC 212. Social Stratification
The causes and effects of social ranking in various societies. Theories of stratification; the dynamics of informal social grouping; determinants of institutional power, and the nature of struggles for power; the distribution of wealth and its causes; the dynamics of social mobility; the effects of stratification on life-styles, culture, and deviance.

SOC 216. Sociology of Culture
The history of the concept of culture; cultural pluralism in advanced industrialized societies; the differentiation of cultural institutions; cultural policy and social structure; culture as a property of social groups; conflict and accommodation over efforts to change and sustain traditional
culture.

SOC 222. Social Movements
An examination of theories accounting for the causes and consequences of social movements, including a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of such theories for understanding historically specific revolutions, rebellions, and violent and nonviolent forms of protest in various parts of the world.

SOC 226. Political Sociology
This course discusses the relationship between state and society in a comparative perspective. The focus is on the interaction among states, domestic economic elites, and external economic and political processes in the determination of different developmental paths. Analytically, it includes topics such as characteristics and functions of the state in different types of society throughout history (with an emphasis on the varieties of capitalist and socialist state), the autonomy of the state and its causes in different settings, and developmental and predatory consequences of state activity. Readings will include both theoretical and empirical materials, the latter dealing mostly with nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe and twentieth century Latin America.

SOC 227. Ethnographic Film: Media Methods
Ethnographic recording of field data in written and audiovisual formats, including film, video, and CD ROM
applications. Critical assessment of ethnographies and audiovisual data in terms of styles, format, and
approaches. Graduate students are required to submit a fifteen-page mid-term paper comparing a written
and an audiovisual ethnography and a final video ethnography with a project abstract.

SOC 234. Intellectual Foundation of the Study of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This course focuses on some classic methodological and theoretical resources upon which the sociology of science, technology, and medicine all draw. It gives special attention to relationships between knowledge and social order, and between knowledge and practice, that are common to science, technology, and medicine.

SOC 244. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Analysis of enduring topics in the study of race and ethnicity, including stratification, discrimination conflict, immigration, assimilation, and politics. Other topics include racial and ethnic identity and the social construction of race and ethnic categories. A special focus is on the role of 'culture' and 'structure' for explaining race/ethnic differentiation.

SOC 264. Economic Sociology
This course provides an overview of the classical and current debates in the economic sociology literature. It presents theories of the rise of industrial economics and addresses how economic activities are constituted and influenced by institutions, culture, and social structure.

SOC 267. Sociology of Gender
Course examines social construction of gender focusing on recent contributions to the field, including micro and macro-level topics, i.e., social psychological issues in the development of gender, gender stratification in the labor force, gender and social protest, feminist methodologies.