30197 - SOCIOLOGY
Course taught in English
Go to class group/s: 31
Class-group lessons delivered on campus
The purpose of this course is to expose students to the prevailing theories, methods, and research issues of contemporary sociology. The course links key research issues and debates in sociology with research methods and analytic strategies so that students can understand how a sociological perspective contributes to our ability to understand and explain both the macro- and micro-aspects of societies and social organization.
Key Concepts:
- Status, Authority, Community.
- Socialization, Family and Kinship.
- Groups and Networks.
Inequality and Mobility:
- Poverty and Inequality.
- Social Stratification and Social Mobility.
- Gender and Discrimination.
- Global Stratification and Population Studies.
The Sociology of Economic Life:
- The Economy as an Instituted Process.
- The Sociology of Markets and Firms.
The State and Globalization:
- The State and its Critics.
- Welfare States in Comparative Perspective.
- Globalization and Challenges to the State.
- Think sociologically about world phenomena, differentiate sociological thinking from other discourses, and use conceptual tools from sociology to explain social dynamics.
- Apply sociological reasoning and sociological tools such that they can formulate better explanations for social phenomena that offered by other social science discourses.
- Interpret data in ways that problematize overly simply solutions and generate strong explanatory frameworks.
- Face-to-face lectures
- Exercises (exercises, database, software etc.)
- Individual assignments
Exercises include evaluation of highly influential works in political science and political sociology to understand:
- The assumptions underlying the work.
- The empirical bases of the arguments.
- The reasons for the works influence.
Individual assignments include:
- A seminar report.
- A short paper focusing on theoretical and methodological integration around a particular course theme.
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- An exercise (25%)
- A short paper (25%)
- Two partial exams (50%)
Final written exam (100%)
Students are provided with a selection of readings on the course Bboard site.