SOCI G4019. Primary Groups In Modern Society. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Compares the varying roles and structures of family, friends, neighbors, spouses, and other informal groups in a modern industrial society with those of formal organizations. Using theories of group structure, develops a rationale for the viability of informal groups in all areas of social life. Research evidence concentrates on health and aging.

SOCI G4020. Civil Society. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

An introduction to the research on what is commonly known as the "third sector": civil society. This sector of society, which is distinct from the state and market sectors, includes social actors such as social movements, non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations, voluntary organizations, and citizens.

SOCI G4025. Mathematical Models for Social Science Exploration. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Exposure to the mathematical modeling of social processes, including choice of strategic position in production markets, alliance formation in political movements, diffusion through large-scale social and biological networks, conversational turn-taking among bankers. Formal models draw on combinatorial analysis, ordinary differential equations, Galois lattices, and computer simulation.

SOCI G4028. Gender & Inequality in Families. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Undergraduates require instructor's permission to enroll.

Topics include gender and feminist theories on the family, household division of labor, changing roles of men in families, gay and lesbian family formation, single motherhood, adolescent behavior, and class, race, and family life; explicit emphasis on the interpretation of gender in family life. Open to graduate students and some senior undergraduates with permission from the instructor.

SOCI G4030. Sociology of Language. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Use of language by actors in social contexts, called "discourse" in English, is the central topic. It concerns the establishment and reproduction of social relations of all sorts, as well as reference to other environments. Discourse grows into, and out of, various sublanguages across social networks, amid struggles for domination and identity.

SOCI G4038. Sociology of Collective Memory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

It has become increasingly clear that the way social pasts are transmitted is both an important indicator of and power in all social processes. This course, therefore, presents and develops collective memory as a sociological concept of major importance.

SOCI G4042. Economic Sociology Meets Economic Geography. 3 pts. Priority enrollment - Sociology graduate students Not offered in 2009-2010.

For students interested in economic and organizational sociology, in the interplay of local and global forces, in political economy, and in the intersection of business and policy studies, the course is to be a graduate level seminar tracing the development and future direction of the conversation between the fields of economic sociology and economic geography.

SOCI G4047. Urban Sociology and Social Policy. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

A combined sociological and policy-oriented analysis of the American city. The major problems of the city, and of its poor and racial minorities. Urban policy, national economic and social policy, the reduction of inequality and the welfare state. Urban problems as national problems.

SOCI G4050y. Sociological Theory: the Origins. 3 pts.

Foundational sources and issues in sociological theory: Adam Smith, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Mead, Mauss, others; division of labor, individualism, exchange, class and its vicissitudes, social control, ideas and interests, contending criteria of explanation and interpretation. Sociology Ph.D. and MA students, SMS students. No others without permission.

SOCI G4063. Gender and Stratification. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Mechanisms that produce gender inequality at different points in the life course will be explored in comparative perspective. These include the educational process, marriage, cohabitation, fertility, and union dissolution, and the impact of gender differences in these domains on hours worked, occupational sex segregation, work careers, and earnings. The impact of anti-discrimination and social insurance policies on gender inequality, and the size and explanation for trends in gender inequality will also be addressed.

SOCI G4074x-G4075y. Introductory Social Data Analysis. 3 pts. Corequisites: Required co-requisite: Sociology G4076-G4077.

Basic techniques for analyzing quantitative social science data. Emphasis on conceptual understanding as well as practical mastery of probability and probability distributions, inference, hypotheses testing, analysis of variance, simple regression, and multiple regression.

SOCI G4076x-G4077y. Computer Workshop for Introductory Social Data Analysis. 1.5 pts. Corequisites: Required co-requisite: Sociology G4074-G4075.

May be taken only for R-credit. During these laboratory sessions for G4074-G4075, basic algebra is reviewed, and matrix algebra, elementary calculus, and computer data analysis are covered.

SOCI G4098. Qualitative Research Methods: Observations, Interviews and Documents. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Introduction to a number of different qualitative research methods. Students have the opportunity to use one or more of these methods to write a significant research paper.

SOCI G4099x. Field Research Methods. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Intensive supervised group and individual practice in doing sociological participant observation.

SOCI G4100 (Section 001). Sociology of Consumerism. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course will explore consumption as a product of modernity and will examine multiple agendas that have transformed consumption over time. We will analyze consumerism from a sociological perspective and we will use 'sociological imagination' to debate the social, psychological, and economic causes and consequences of consumerism.

SOCI G4110y. Power and Politics in Organizations. 3 pts.

This course provides an institutional perspective on power and politics in the study of organizations. It starts with more macro-level levers of power and proceeds 'downward' through States, fields, and organizations. The aim is to understand theoretically and practically both the active and the more hegemonic forms of power at work in organizational life. Permission of instructor required.

SOCI G4120. Racial and Ethnic Identities. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Seminar analyzes how historical, political, and social contexts shape the meaning of race and ethnicity. Delineates processes of group identity formation, renewal and change among African Americans, Whites, West Indians, Asian Americans, Latinos, American Indians, and racially mixed people.

SOCI G4121. Racial and Ethnic Inequality. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: None

Focus on how racial and ethnic inequality is generated and maintained. The readings will cover theoretical perspectives on racial/ethnic stratification and empirical findings. The course will cover a wide time period, but will focus on contemporary issues in the United States.

SOCI G4122y. Theory and Practice In the Sociology of Culture. 3 pts.

Introduction to the study of culture, cultural products, and practices. The social organization and stratification of cultural products and practices in contemporary society, historical antecedents; tradition vs. innovation, popular vs. high culture, literature vs. the plastic and performing arts; models of cultural and aesthetic change.

SOCI G4130. Sociology of Expertise. 4 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

A new approach to the classical problems of the sociology of knowledge - the social determination of knowledge and the social roles of those who create, possess, and distribute knowledge. This new approach rejects the current boundaries of inquiry and reunifies them as a network of practices straddling the boundaries of science and the professions.

SOCI G4165. Contemporary Sociological Theory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Following a brief grounding survey of some of the classical sociological theories, several contemporary social theories will be analyzed, with special emphasis on those of Talcott Parsons, Robert K. Merton, and the most recent developments in theorizing. The emphasis is on thorough analysis and critical evaluation of a few theories rather than on a short review of a large number.

SOCI G4170. Contemporary Issues in Critical Social Theory. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Exploration of key issues in the contemporary development of critical social theory such as the relationship among normative, critical and empirical analyses; among analytic perspectives focused on structure, action, power, function, and culture; and among different underpinnings in philosophy of science. Attention will focus especially on major contemporary theorists including Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, and Charles Taylor and schools of thought such as rational choice theory, feminism, and Marxism.

SOCI G4192. Social and Political Movements. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Enrollment limited to 20 students. The emergence and development of social movements. Internal structure, leadership, conditions for success, consequences. Roles of the media, funders, countermovements, rights claims. Special attention to civil rights, women's, and gay and lesbian movements.

SOCI G4195. Sociology of Revolutions. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Major contending traditions of theory and research about the nature and causes of revolution, from their antecedents in the classics of modern social thought to contemporary research. Emphasis on 20th-century revolutions in China and southeast Asia as a testing ground for various theories.

SOCI G4204. Historical Sociology. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Each week the seminar will discuss and analyze exemplary works of historical social science. Because historical sociology often deals with large process and large structure, the course will be loosely articulated around empirical examples of 3 large scale social phenomena: 1) the rise of capitalism, 2) state formation and 3) revolution. The focus of the seminar will be on uncovering the social theories and on understanding the methodological approaches of a variety of authors. As such the objective will be to familiarize the seminar's participants with a range of theoretical frameworks, methodological approaches and large substantive sociological topics.

SOCI G4220. Comparative Social Organization of Developed Capitalist Economies. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

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SOCI G4268. National and Ethnic Identities. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The origins, nature, and operation of ethnic and national identities in historical and geographical perspective; the origins of nations and nationalism in Western Europe and as a reaction to colonialism in the Third World. A broad introduction to many of the central figures and arguments in comparative historical sociology and the literature on ethnic mobilization.

SOCI G4324. Survey Methods. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Survey designs to study individuals and social contexts, definition of populations and sampling methods, exploratory interviewing techniques, code construction and preparation for analysis. For the final project, students write an actual or hypothetical questionnaire.

SOCI G4335. Law and Inequality. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Prerequisite: the instructor's permission. Uses and limitations of the law in combating social, political, and economic inequality. Topics include: law and modernity in classical social theory; litigation as social movement strategy; race and political representation; the equal/different treatment debate; affirmative action; legal understandings among ordinary Americans; critiques of legal liberalism.

SOCI G4370x. Processes of Stratification and Inequality. 3 pts. The nature of opportunity in American society; the measurement of inequality; trends in income and wealth inequality; issues of poverty and poverty policy; international comparisons.

SOCI G4371. Comparative Perspectives on Social Inequality and Mobility. 3 pts. SOCI G4370 constitutes useful preparation for the material covered in this course. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites:SOCI G4370 constitutes useful preparation for the material covered in this course.

A comparative perspective on the structure of social inequality and mobility in industrialized societies. Topics include class, income, wealth inequality, and the distribution of poverty. Market, family, and state determinants of inequality and mobility will be addressed, as will the impact of migration on inequality.

SOCI G4407x. The Dynamics of Israeli Society. 3 pts.

The seminar will examine the main political, economic, and social processes that have been shaping Israeli society. Emphasis will be on immigration and emigration patterns, the economy and stratification system, the ethnic hierarchy among Jews as well as between Jews and Arabs, the question of democracy, the military, as well as the Occupation and the settlers.

SOCI G4410. The French Sociological Tradition. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Working from the assumption that sociological work in France must be understood in relation both to an identifiable intellectual tradition and to a coherent institutional setting, seminar examines the dialogue of affinities (Montesquieu-Tocqueville) and opposites (Durkheim-Tarde, Bourdieu-Foucault) characteristic of French sociology from the 18th century to the present.

SOCI G4520. Social Theory and the City. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Major social theoretical perspectives on the city are critically reviewed. From classical sociological theorists to postmodernism.

SOCI G4980x-W4981y. 2nd YR Practicum: Writing, Publishing. 3 pts.

Two semesters are required for second year sociology Ph.D.students. It is also open for one semester or more to other upper level sociology students who are doing professional level writing. The class will meet every other week throughout the academic year. The principle mechanism guiding the class is exchange of and feedback on students' written work-in-progress, reciprocity being a condition of joining. The group can be a forum for trial runs of job talks. Special topics, such as grant writing, will be introduced as the schedule and student needs require.

SOCI G6047. Political Sociology: Traditions and Concepts. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Basic traditions in sociological interpretations of politics. Seminal problematics raised by Tocqueville, Marx, Weber, Michels, Simmel, Gramsci and others, plus selected expressions in contemporary political sociology.

SOCI G6048. Comparisons of Institutions and Processes. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Recommended preparation: Sociology G6047 or the equivalent. Introduction to topics selected from social bases of political regimes; ideology, opinion, and collective consciousness; social structure and political behavior; formation, organization, and representation of interests; civil-military and church-state arrangements; politics of business, labor, and intellectuals. Empirical and historical materials; emphasis on comparisons within the Western world.

SOCI G6050. Comparative Perspectives On the State. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

A comparative perspective on issues of state-society relations in the context of theories of state formation, and state intervention in economic development. By moving back and forth between western and non-western models of state formation and development, the course tries to refine as well as to build upon the current state literature in both sociology and political science.

SOCI G6059x. State and Nation In Multi-Ethnic Societies. 3 pts. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.

The current theoretical literature on the state, ethnicity and nationalism as it relates to multi-ethnic societies. The decline of three multi-ethnic societies will be analyzed in comparative perspective: Ottoman, Austria-Hungary and the Soviet Empire. The models developed from the first two will be applied to analyze the last case of ethnic and political conflict.

SOCI G6075. Social Movement Strategy. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor.

Research-intensive seminar on decisionmaking in social movement organizations.

SOCI G6160. Special Topics - Israeli Society. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This semester the seminar will focus on migration patterns to and from Israel. The seminar has two main parts. The first focuses on immigration patterns to Palestine/Israel from the late 19th century until the present. We will discuss Jewish immigration in the pre-state period, Arab forced migration in 1948, Jewish immigration to Israel until the 1967 war, and migration patterns from the late 1960s until the present. The second part of the course discusses emigration from Israel since 1948, which is viewed as a major social problem. The focus will be on the number of emigrants, their composition, the causes for emigration, return migration, and on the question of the brain drain from Israel.

SOCI G6200x. International Migration. 3 pts.

Guided by migration theories, we will discuss past (especially the 1840-1920 period) and current patterns of migration in various parts of the world. We start with theories and empirical studies of immigrants' social assimilation and integration, and then discuss immigrants' skills and their labor market assimilation, a topic that has been at the center of the immigration debate in the US in the past 20 years. In this context we will examine both first and second generation immigrants, as well as issues of citizenship, transnationalism and exclusion.

SOCI G6220. Practicum in Publishing. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

This course is designed as a writing workshop to prepare advanced graduate students to publish papers in peer reviewed social science journals. Since publishing in a peer-reviewed publication is a prerequisite for most jobs in sociology today, graduate students must publish before they finish their graduate work or be seriously limited in their job options. This course will provide a space for graduate students to workshop their papers and go through a simulated editorial review process before submitting their papers to journals. All students must enter the course with a paper that is ready to be revised and submitted to a peer-reviewed journal for publication. During the semester, you will be required to go through two rounds of revisions on the paper and write letters to the editor responding to reviews provided by other members of the class. In addition, all students will be required to serve as reviewers for the other members of the class.reading papers and writing reviews for their peers.

SOCI G6225. Models of Categorical Data. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Prerequisite: knowledge of topics covered in Sociology G4074-G4075, or the equivalent. Standard multiple regression techniques, and a variety of log-linear models with intention of acquiring both an understanding of these techniques and an ability to use them for research, as demonstrated by an analysis of a data set provided in the course.

SOCI G6320y. Immigration, Cities, States: Deciphering the Global. 3 pts.

Transnational processes such as economic globalization and cross-border migrations confront the social sciences with a series of theoretical and methodological challenges. This course examines these challenges through a focus oon both macro level cross-border flows and micro processes which might take place at a global or at a sub-national level. Particular attention will go to analyzing the challenges for theorization and empirical specification.

SOCI G6325x. French Social Theory. 3 pts.

Outlines three major challenges to positivist American social science: those of Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, and Bruno Latour. You will develop a preliminary working knowledge of the thought of these three major thinkers - close attention will be paid to what it means to deploy these ideas in research practice.

SOCI G6500. Issues of Measurement and Causal Inference In Sociological Research. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Prerequisite: G4074-G4075. Introduction to the concepts of reliability and validity; methods of assessing them in sociologcial research. The effects of unreliability and invalidity on causal inference addressed in detail.

SOCI G6670. Research Practicum On Stratification Practices In Organizations. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Consideration of the design of human resource systems; determinants of promotion and departure; race and gender differences in attainment; comparable worth analysis. Students encouraged to work with suitable data sets.

SOCI G6995x. Graduate Research Practicum. 3 pts.

Course purpose is to serve as an omnibus opportunity for student professional development. Serves as a workshop as students narrow down a paper topic, develop a proposal, and carry out the research. Discussion includes how one selects a topic, how to find appropriate theory and data, and rhetorical strategies for making a paper "publishable," among other issues. Culminates in the completion of the M.Phil. paper.

SOCI G8090 (Section 001). Organizational Analysis. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Teaches basic principles of social organization and advanced skills at theorizing and conceptualizing research findings. Prepares students to conduct research in diverse organizational forms (community, social movement, labor union, family, agency, nation state, church, corporation); theorize research findings; critically evaluate theory and research; diagnose problems in organizations.

SOCI G8280x. Quantitative Strategies for Sociological Research. 3 pts.

Working with selected readings of both theoretical and "best practice" empirical work and discussions of "causal" analysis with strategies for conducting quantitative social research. Much of the class time will involve presentation and discussion of quantitative strategies from the research projects of class participants.

SOCI U8320. Research Practicum On Poverty and Public Policy. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Issues concerning the definition of poverty, the composition of poverty and the causes of poverty. Large data sets are utilized; team projects are required.

SOCI G8402. Research Seminar On Political Identities. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Prerequisite: some familiarity on the subject. Operates in conjunction with a long-established research workshop on contentious politics involving students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty members from throughout the New York region. Members of the seminar have priority as critics in the workshop.

SOCI G9018. Social Structures and Moral Ideals. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Implications for sociological theory of selected moral ideals in historical context: trust, gratitude, supererogation, generosity, altruism, forgiveness, honor; exchange theory, rational choice, personal relations, norms and values; historical, anthropological, theological, literary and empirical materials.

SOCI G9040x-G9041y. Individual Study In Sociology. 3 pts. May be taken for letter grade more than once, provided different faculty members supervise the writing of papers. Permission of the director of graduate studies is required to take more than 3 points of study with any one faculty member. Individual writing on a topic agreed upon by the supervising faculty member.

SOCI G9042x-G9043y. Individual Study In Sociology. 3 pts. May be taken for E-credit more than once, provided different faculty members supervise the writing of papers. Permission of the director of graduate studies is required to take more than 3 points of study with any one faculty member. Individual writing on a topic agreed upon by the supervising faculty member.

SOCI G9044x-G9045y. Individual Study In Sociology. 3 pts. May be taken for E-credit more than once, provided different faculty members supervise the writing of papers. Permission of the director of graduate studies is required to take more than 3 points of study with any one faculty member. Individual writing on a topic agreed upon by the supervising faculty member.

SOCI G9047. Selected Topics in Stratification Analysis. 3 pts. Admission by consent of instructor Not offered in 2009-2010. Prerequisites:G4370 or equivalent

Topics in Stratification Analysis: Examination of socio-economic attainment, intergenerational transfers, and sources of inequality in society.

SOCI G9058. Organizations, Information and the Nature of the Firm. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Selection of readings representing a variety of theoretical approaches to the theory of firm, and grappling with the limitations of each approach in the face of real-world complexity.

SOCI G9070. Workshop In Urban and Policy Research. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

The underclass as a concept, label for the undeserving poor, and indicator of acute and persistent urban poverty. The underclass and larger issues of urban and national social policy. Discussion of the work-in-progress of individual workshop members.

SOCI G9080. Contextualization of Contexts. 3 pts.

Structure embeds with process and events with networks among observings and signalings, as variously perceived and constituted in levels and extensions. So the central issue is contextualizing contexts wherein social is interdigitated with cultural, narrative with situational.

SOCI G9110x. Identity and Control. 3 pts.

How identities are generated and shaped amid control projects in social networks. Recast concepts of action and actors in ways which permit effective theory of social process and order in the middle range-sizes of tens and thousands over weeks to years. A criterion is self-similarity, so that identity and control concepts can be applied at the many different levels and scopes in which social action is imbedded.

SOCI G9120. Social Networks. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Focus on theoretical and substantive themes within social network analysis, some of which are of general interest, some of which are of specific interest to the instructor. Also stressed are works in progress. Some technical solutions to substantive issues of interest-centrality, blocking, clusters, duality-are presented. Mathematical sophistication is unnecessary.

SOCI G9220. Social Structure and Social Action: Micro-Foundations of Macro-Structures. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Basic issues in the theory of social structure and action. Focus on identifying micro-mechanisms that can be linked to macro-structures. Distinct research traditions are explored. New methods for modeling are introduced and explored. The goal is a better sense of the ways in which social scientists can meaningfully model complex events and structures.

SOCI G9240. Workshop On Mass Media and Popular Culture Research. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Prerequisite: one year of graduate-level coursework. A workshop for conducting individual research and writing projects on the mass media or popular culture. Class discussion will emphasize work-in-progress of workshop members.

SOCI G9513. Methods of Temporal Analysis. 3 pts. Not offered in 2009-2010.

Prerequisite: G4024, G4025 or the equivalent. Dynamic models of change using panel data, time-series and event histories: parametric and non-parametric models, estimation and interpretation.