printer friendly pageSOC 141: Controversies about Inequality (SOC 241)
(Graduate students register for 241.) Debate format involving Stanford and guest faculty. Forms of inequality including racial, ethnic, and gender stratification; possible policy interventions. Topics such as welfare reform, immigration policy, affirmative action, discrimination in labor markets, sources of income inequality, the duty of rich nations to help poor nations, and causes of gender inequality.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
SOC 142: Sociology of Gender (FEMGEN 142, FEMGEN 242, SOC 242)
(Graduate students register for 242.) Gender inequality in contemporary American society and how it is maintained. The social and relative nature of knowledge and the problems this poses for understanding sex differences and gendered behavior in society. Analytical levels of explanation for gender inequalities: socialization, interaction processes, and socioeconomic processes; arguments and evidence for each approach. The social consequences of gender inequality such as the feminization of poverty, and problems of interpersonal relations.
Terms: Win
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Fisk, S. (PI)
SOC 146: Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (ANTHRO 33, CSRE 196C, ENGLISH 172D, TAPS 165)
How different disciplines approach topics and issues central to the study of ethnic and race relations in the U.S. and elsewhere. Lectures by senior faculty affiliated with CSRE. Discussions led by CSRE teaching fellows.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
SOC 148: Comparative Ethnic Conflict (CSRE 148, SOC 248)
Causes and consequences of racial and ethnic conflict, including nationalist movements, ethnic genocide, civil war, ethnic separatism, politics, indigenous peoples' movements, and minority rights movements around the world.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
SOC 149: The Urban Underclass (SOC 249, URBANST 112)
(Graduate students register for 249.) Recent research and theory on the urban underclass, including evidence on the concentration of African Americans in urban ghettos, and the debate surrounding the causes of poverty in urban settings. Ethnic/racial conflict, residential segregation, and changes in the family structure of the urban poor.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
SOC 155: The Changing American Family (FEMGEN 155, FEMGEN 255, SOC 255)
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
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Rosenfeld, M. (PI)
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SOC 156: Ritual, Politics, Power (ANTHRO 152)
Our everyday lives are made up of multiple routines, some consciously staged and imagined and others unconscious and insidious. Anthropologists call these rituals. Rituals shape every aspect of our lives, creating our symbolic universes and governing the most minute of our practices. nnFor early anthropologists and for those interested in religious and symbolic life, rituals and rites were seen as both one of the most universal features of human existence, and, as that which enables us to reflect upon our human existence. A prominent example are that of the ¿rites de passage¿ found in every culture, from puberty initiation rites, weddings or funerals, which socially signal the change from one status to another. While initially for anthropologists, rituals marked the difference between the sacred and the profane, soon scholars began to see the ubiquity of ritual and the symbolic in shaping even the most mundane activity such as the structure of a meal and why one is not meant to eat dessert before the main course. The first half of the class examines these different debates surrounding the meaning and effects of rituals and rites. The second half of the class takes these debates to think about the question of power and politics. We return to the question of how our symbolic universes are staged and imagined by us through ritual forms such as the annual Presidential ¿pardoning the turkey¿ at Thanksgiving. The question of power however pushes us even further to ask why it is that we obey particular kinds of authority, consent to particular actions, and find ourselves doing things we haven¿t consciously decided to do. Many have argued that these kinds of political questions about how we respond and are shaped by power have something to do with our symbolic worlds and ritual, from the most obvious (the monarchy) to the most subtle (listening in a classroom). Throughout the course, these abstract questions will be grounded in cross-cultural examples and analysis.
Terms: Win
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Thiranagama, S. (PI)
SOC 166: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Chicanos in American Society (SOC 266)
Contemporary sociological issues affecting Mexican-origin people in the U.S. Topics include: the immigrant experience, immigration policy, identity, socioeconomic integration, internal diversity, and theories of incorporation.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
SOC 168: Global Organizations: Managing Diversity (PUBLPOL 168, PUBLPOL 268, SOC 268)
Analytical tools derived from the social sciences to analyze global organizations and projects, and applied to the tradeoffs between different designs of teams and organizations. Focus is on tribal mentality and how to design effective organizations and projects for policy implementation within and across institutional settings. This class is associated with a study trip during the Spring Break. Recommended:
PUBLPOL 102, MS&E 180,
SOC 160,
ECON 149, or
MGTECON 330.
Terms: Win
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Meyersson Milgrom, E. (PI)
SOC 173: Gender and Higher Education: National and International Perspectives (EDUC 173, EDUC 273, FEMST 173, SOC 273)
This course examines the ways in which higher education structures and policies affect females, males, and students in relation to each other and how changes in those structures and policies improve experiences for females and males similarly or differently. Students are expected to gain an understanding of theories and perspectives from the social sciences relevant to an understanding of the role of higher education in relation to structures of gender differentiation and hierarchy. Topics include undergraduate and graduate education; identity and sexuality; gender and science; gender and faculty; and the development of feminist scholarship and pedagogy. Attention is paid to how these issues are experienced by women and men in the United States, including people of color, and by academics throughout the world, and how these have changed over time.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:EC-Gender, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
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