SOC 596

Spring 2025 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 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32821	Lecture-Discussion	TFL	3:30PM -6:20PM	M	G7 Literatures, Cultures, & Ling	Liao, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Section Title: Sequence Analysis Section Info: This course gives a graduate-level introduction to sequence analysis for social science research. Sequence analysis, originally developed in biology for analyzing DNA strings, has seen an exponential increase in both methodological development and substantive applications in the social sciences for analyzing longitudinal data over the past two decades. Many applications in the social sciences study life course processes, such labor market careers, migration histories, health statuses, and family formation trajectories, among others. The course provides a state-of-the-art coverage of the fundamental methods of sequence analysis as well as how these methods are used to answer social science research questions. Topics include different ways of calculating distances between sequences, sequence cluster analysis, sequence visualization, multidomain/multichannel sequence analysis, and the association between sequences of the same domain but different groups such as different generations. All topics are demonstrated with hands-on examples using R.