SOC 596

Spring 2013 All Classes

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Recent Developments in Soc

Credit: 4 hours.

Intensive study of selected topics based on contemporary works of major importance in the development of sociological theory.

May be repeated if topics vary.

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SOC 596 class schedule data for spring 2013
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
57583	Lecture	BS	3:30PM -6:20PM	W	Lincoln Hall	Sandefur, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/13-05/01/13 Section Info: Topic:Social Stratification and Inequality The main classical and modern explanations of the causes of social, economic and political inequality. Key issues: the consequences of inequality for individuals and groups; the relative importance of economic, political and social forces in creating and sustaining inequality; class consciousness; the significance of race, ethnicity and gender; and the use of social policy to mitigate inequality. Cases range from technologically simple groups, the Indian caste system, and the U.S. and other societies in modern times.
58847	Lecture	CB	3:30PM -6:20PM	T	David Kinley Hall	Buckley, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/13-05/01/13 Section Info: Topic: Population, Health, and the Life Course: Core Theories and Methods for Social Analysis This graduate seminar will explore the core sociological approaches to the study of population change and social epidemiology. Specifically, we will investigate how individual decisions concerning family formation, reproduction, migration, and health-related behaviors/risks are constructed, the ways in which social context influences that construction and the manner in which context and decision making processes vary across the life course. Interdisciplinary in scope, the seminar seeks to familiarize students with a variety of theoretical approaches from the fields of demography, public health, social psychology and economic development in order to prepare them for further specialized course work and research activities. Special emphasis will be placed on the critical assessment of standard measures and methodological approaches. In addition to weekly readings and discussions, participants are expected to complete a methodological assessment (to be completed in a small group), a brief theoretical critique of a course related reading, and a detailed grant proposal incorporating selected theories and methods from the course.
32824	Lecture-Discussion	JD	5:00PM -7:20PM	M	Lincoln Hall	Dowling, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/13-05/01/13 Section Info: Topic: Racial and Equalities in the US Restriction(s): Not intended for Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
57585	Lecture	R4	3:00PM -4:20PM	TR	Davenport Hall	Sugrue, N	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/13-05/01/13 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Section Info: Topic: Environment, Health, and Social Justice in the Developing World This is connected to the winter Morrocco Study Abroad Course.
53518	Conference	ZG	3:30PM -6:20PM	W	Davenport Hall	Gille, Z	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/13-05/01/13 Section Info: Topic: Nature and Technology from a Transnational Perspective The purpose of this course is to acquaint graduate students with a) different theoretical approaches to material agency, spatiality, and embodied practices, such as phenomenology, Actor Network Theory, neo- and eco-Marxism, poststructuralism, and b) with empirical case studies that illuminate the connections among knowledge, technology, consumption, the body, nature, and waste across different scales and c) sort out the differences among such concepts as global assemblages, material civilization, transnational material flows, etc. Students will use these theories and empirical models to formulate their own research projects, which efforts and experiments will serve as the basis of their final papers for this course.