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May 31, 2023

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Carla Freeman
Global and Transnational Culture
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Development
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
The course begins by discussing the historical underpinnings of today's globalization and transnational movements. We will explore the linkages between European colonialism and the contemporary post-colonial, "postmodern" world. Then, we will map the ways in which...
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Joseph Galaskiewicz
SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Social Networks
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
The purpose of this course is to give graduate students in the social and behavioral sciences a better understanding of how social network analysis has been used to study a variety of informal social processes. More specifically, we want to identify the key network...
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Nadejda Chapkina, Charles Jaret, Guangya Liu, Angela Pollock
Controversies About the Impact of Immigration : Celebrating the Positive: "The job gains and economic benefits due to high immigration greatly exceed any negative effects."
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Migration/Immigration
Abstract:
In this viewpoint, immigration is said to contribute much more economic good than harm to the United States. Advocates of this position, such as Ben Wattenberg (see "Immigration is Good," The American Enterprise, March 2002), claim that our high immigration rate...
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TOM GERSCHICK
WRITING ASSIGNMENT AND EXAM QUESTION: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY THROUGH MEN AND MASCULINITIES
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Disabilities
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
Outline of: WRITING ASSIGNMENT: DISABILITY AND MASCULINITY IN THE MOVIES and EXAM QUESTION REVIEW: ABILITY AND DISABILITY.
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Jason Owen-Smith
Science,Technology & Society
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Science and Technology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Advanced Graduate
Abstract:
This Ph.D. level seminar offers students a broad overview of sociological, economic, and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of science and technology with a particular focus on reciprocal relationships across socio-cultural, economic, and technical systems....
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Basil Kardaras
A Selected Bibliography on Development: Latin America to 1999
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Development
Resource Type(s):
Bibliography
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Abstract:
This is one of Thirty three selected bibliographies spanning over one hundred pages are presented focusing on scholarship on the Sociology of Development and Women in Development organized by social, political, and economic themes, by global regions (Africa, Asia,...
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David Gartrell
Lab - Cliques and Subgroups
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Social Networks
Resource Type(s):
Class Activity
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
As Scott tells us at the beginning of Ch. 6, network researchers have long been interested in the clustering and "clumping" of networks into highly cohesive subgroups. In the classic studies of the Western Electric plant and of "Yankee City", such subgroups were...
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Kathie Friedman
Jewish Women in Contemporary America: Multiple and Intersecting Identities
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Racial and Ethnic Relations
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
This seminar focuses on the multiple ways Jewish American women have defined, expressed, and questioned conflicting components of their identities over the last century. We will examine a range of texts (e.g., scholarly and theoretical essays about identity,...
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MIA FELDBAUM
ABSTRACT AND BIBLIOGRAPHY FROM A CULTURAL DECONSTRUCTION OF DISABILITY
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Disabilities
Resource Type(s):
Bibliography
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
ABSTRACT AND BIBLIOGRAPHY FROM A CULTURAL DECONSTRUCTION OF DISABILITY
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Lucy Ogburn
Introductory Sociology
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Internship/Service Learning
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 100
Abstract:
This course meets one of the two Multicultural/Global Awareness core intensive value requirements. Additionally, if you successfully complete the Service Learning option, you will meet the Values, Ethics and Social Policy core intensive value. This course has also...
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