An introduction to the social, intellectual and aesthetic traditions of German-speaking cultures from the Germanic past to the Englightenment. Texts in English translation. Films with English subtitles to be viewed outside of regular class time.
Consideration of central conceptual issues underlying the construction of various sociological theories and their explanatory frameworks. A systematic exploration of the development and application of central conceptual frameworks of the discipline.
An introduction to the social, intellectual and aesthetic tradition of German-speaking cultures from the Enlightenment to the present. Texts in English translation. Films with English subtitles to be viewed outside of regular class time.
An advanced seminar focusing on the definition, evaluation and construction of family theory. Inductive and deductive theory construction strategies are surveyed, evaluated and applied.
An introduction to the historical development of Spanish, Portuguese and Italian from a common source, with an emphasis on the comparison of related lexical, phonological and morphological items.
concepts, literature and current developments in the field of complex organization.
This course examines the theories of work and occupations; the industrial structure of the labor force, the nature of mental and manual labor; the structure of labor markets including underemployment, unemployment, and segmentation; occupational mobility and status attainment; worker resistance and informal groups; worker participation and teamwork; labor and management relations; and state and national legislation regarding work, conflict, safety, and discrimination.
This course examines the field of economic sociology. It looks at consumption and production behavior in a variety of industries. It examines the labor market and how people are trained and find jobs. It looks at how people establish businesses and use investment to socially construct production. It looks at how markets are socially constructed and how market failures occur. Finally, it looks at the constructive role that government can play in controlling and promoting markets.
This course examines employment processes, unemployment in the global economy, and theories of the division of labor beginning with Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. This is followed by an analysis of jobs in the current global economy. First, it examines the processes by which jobs are created and destroyed through investment and various processes such as outsourcing and offshoring. Second, it looks at lean production and evidence-based medicine as forms of rationalization that emerged from scientific management and other processes.
This course examines migration in a global perspective. It looks at immigration, emigration, and naturalization. It includes both legal and illegal immigration. All the major regions of the world are considered in a broad perspective, and then more specific forms of migration in specific countries are considered. Integration and naturalization processes are an important part of the mix. Both qualitative and quantitative evidence will be considered.
