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820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (upper level) [Old number] SC371 [New number] SOCY3371 [Description] This course explores the different ways that new technologies influence, and interact with, contemporary understandings of health and gender in American society. How does the marketing, prevalence, and use of cosmetic surgery, reproductive technologies, and pharmaceutical drugs both challenge and re-affirm traditional understandings of what it means to be male or female, and what a healthy body feels and looks like? Finally, the reciprocal relationship between new technologies, bodily health, and ecological health will be investigated. Modern agri-business practices, genetically modified foods, and plastics are among several of the technology industries that will be examined through this multi-lensed, sociological perspective. [Title] | Gender, Environmental Health, and New Technologies | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (upper level) [Old number] SC372 [New number] SOCY3372 [Description] We live in a consumer society, where advertising, shopping, and having and displaying goods is central to everyday life. Society also is gendered—bodies enact masculinity and femininity and life chances are structured and unequal. This course examines the relationships between consumption and gender. Themes include: 1) histories of the gendered divisions of labor in society where "men work and women shop," 2) women's responsibility for family consumption in the (heterosexual) domestic sphere, 3) representations of men and women in advertising, 4) the role of commodities in the embodiment of gender (clothing, cosmetics, etc.) and 5) ecofeminism, consumption, and the environment. [Title] | Gender and Consumer Society | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (upper level) [Old number] SC375 [New number] SOCY3375 [Description] This course offers a new way to think about America, focusing on our values, our intertwined economic and social crises exploding in the 2008 Wall Street meltdown, and systemic solutions. Our economic problems include growing poverty and inequality, a shrinking job market, and the failure of many of our industries and corporations to compete globally; our social crisis includes the growth of violence, family breakdown, global warming, overweening corporate power and erosion of democracy. We look at new visions and social movements to transform our socio-economic system. [Title] | American Economic Crisis and Social Change | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (upper level) [Old number] SC377 [New number] SOCY3377 [Description] The word "revolution" is often used metaphorically to emphasize the dramatic nature of certain events, as in "the Reagan revolution," or "the Industrial revolution." However, this course will focus on "revolutions" in the literal sense of the term--that is to say, rapid, fundamental, and violent change in a society's political institutions, social structure, leadership, and government policies. The first two-thirds of the class will be devoted to the causes and consequences of revolutions; the final third will be devoted to in-depth case studies of the Cuban and Mexican revolutions, including the legacies of the Cuban and Mexican revolutions today. [Title] | Sociology of Revolutions | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (upper level) [Old number] New [New number] SOCY3387 [Description] This anthropology course covers the period from the end of WWII to 1973 with the fall of Richard Nixon. This was a time of tremendous change - Vietnam, civil rights, the deaths of President John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the Great society, Watergate, Sputnik, a man on the Moon, the rise of Rock and Roll, America in revolution. We will cover these topics plus more, bringing out what is anthropologically interesting. The films will be a mix of feature films and documentaries. The reading is fascinating. [Title] | Sixties Through Film | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (upper level) [Old number] SC388 [New number] SOCY3388 [Description] We will explore contemporary issues, perception and reality, language, race, gender, sexual orientation, indigenous rights, marriage, colonialism, protest and chaos, and attempt to "think outside the box." Each week we will view one or more films that raise questions about the ways we understand these issues. The films have been selected to enable us to experience alternative ways of thinking about concepts with which we probably feel comfortable. The goal of the course is to allow us to realize that many of our beliefs are cultural constructions and in fact are always in the process of revision. [Title] | Culture Through Film | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (upper level) [Old number] SC390 [New number] SOCY3390 [Description] This course explores popular goods, television, movies, music, dance, art, sports, festivals, and holidays from a sociological perspective. What is the difference between popular culture and high culture? Where does popular culture come from and what role does it play in society? What do people do with popular culture? How does popular culture intersect with race, class, and gender? The class will be framed around the theoretical traditions of conflict theory (how popular culture influences inequality) and symbolic interactionism (how people construct and interpret popular culture). Students will analyze a popular culture event of their choice through a field assignment. [Title] | Making Popular Culture | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (upper level) [Old number] SC391 [New number] SOCY3391 [Description] Social movements have played a major role in U.S. history, helping bring about the end of slavery, votes for women, the 40-hour week, clean water laws and other social changes we take for granted. But movements are widely misunderstood, denigrated by some, and unrealistically glorified by others. In fact, movements face predictable strategic dilemmas; how much they reach their goals depends on choices made at key junctures. While the course spotlights progressive U.S. movements, right-wing and international movements will be used as examples as well. Students will apply concepts from social movement theory to current and historical movements. [Title] | Social Movements | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (upper level) [Old number] New [New number] SOCY3392 [Description] The course will consist of a review of the social movements in the contemporary global wave. Even though these movements have differences in their grievances and context-specific goals, they also have commonalities. The aim of this course will be to examine one social movement each week, situating the social movement in the country's history and the global context, helping students to think about the global system(s) of power and how they are challenged across different contexts. The course will review social movements and digital culture studies literatures since most of these movements were enabled and/or enhanced by digital media. [Title] | Contemporary Social Movements | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (upper level) [Old number] SC394 [New number] SOCY3394 [Description] The end of the Cold War has not put an end to either war or violent conflicts within society. In fact, more than one-third of the world's countries have been directly affected by serious societal warfare since 1990. Not only do problems of large scale, violent conflicts remain central in the modern world, but the probability of nuclear proliferation and the possible use of chemical weapons make such conflicts even scarier. The purpose of this course is to increase your understanding of the conditions under which social conflicts tend to become violent and on how they can be resolved non-violently. [Title] | Social Conflict | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (upper level) [Old number] SC397 [New number] SOCY3397 [Description] In 2008, the World Health Organization declared that "Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale." Their report continued: "Avoidable health inequalities arise because of the circumstances in which people grow, live, work, and age [because of] the systems put in place to deal with illness. The conditions in which people live and die are, in turn, shaped by political, social, and economic forces." This course examines the effects of a wide range of social forces such as gender roles, cultural beliefs, and poverty in creating and sustaining health inequalities across childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age. [Title] | Social Determinants of Health Across the Life Course | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (upper level) [Old number] SC523 [New number] SOCY4400 [Description] Capstone and sociology course exploring the joys, hopes, fears, and anxieties of everyday life. Students will investigate aspects of daily life as a spiritual exercise simultaneously involving self, relationships, and community. Topics include unity of thinking, feeling, and acting; meditation; wisdom stories; Ignatian spirituality and discernment, meaning, and practice of care; and archetypal experience of the sacred. Assignments include commentary on readings, a interview and analysis about an other person's spiritual life; writing autobiographical narratives about one's personal history, and Christmas memories. Readings from sociological, theological, literary, and spiritual texts. [Title] | Capstone: Sociology of the Inner Life | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (upper level) [Old number] New [New number] SOCY4540 [Description] This seminar is a practicum in theoretically grounded and critically reflexive qualitative methods of research. Ethnographic fieldwork and interview based research projects involve a variety of different strategies and approaches. Interview based projects can involve some degree of participant observations in order for researchers to recruit respondents, build rapport, and learn where and how to probe respondents for concrete examples in order to conduct a successful interview. Students will evaluate their goals, epistemological questions, field techniques, relational dynamics with research subjects, analytical strategies, representational devices, and ethical quandaries. [Title] | Qualitative Research Methods | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (upper level) [Old number] SC299 [New number] SOCY4901 [Description] Independent research on a topic mutually agreed upon by the student and professor. Professor's written consent must be obtained prior to registration. [Title] | Readings and Research | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (honors) [Old number] SC550 [New number] SOCY4931 [Description] Ordinarily, students will take this course during the spring of their junior year. The purpose of this seminar will be to read and discuss a series of books that are generally thought to be important contributions to the field. The books chosen will reflect a range of substantive issues, methodological approaches, and theoretical perspectives. The abiding question throughout this seminar class will be the following: What are the characteristics of powerful and compelling sociological work? [Title] | Important Readings in Sociology | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (honors) [Old number] SC455 [New number] SOCY4941 [Description] This seminar will help students to understand the education they have received and provide direction for their career choices. The goals of the seminar are: a) to help students think through the intellectual, ethical and personal meaning of their sociology studies, and 2) to solidify their sociological knowledge. This course is open to all Senior majors in sociology, but is most appropriate for students who are not completing Honors theses and have not enrolled in another BC capstone course. [Title] | Sociology Senior Seminar | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (upper level) [Old number] SC530 [New number] SOCY4942 [Description] This seminar is required of seniors majoring in International Studies. It provides participants with a common vocabulary for analyzing the current international environment politically, economically, and socially. It also examines how to integrate cultural questions and expression into the discipline. Students will explore possibilities for future global relationships in an informed and constructive way and exchange their views, questions, and research in an atmosphere of mutual respect and trust. [Title] | International Studies Senior Seminar | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (honors) [Old number] SC555 [New number] SOCY4961 [Description] This course is required of participants in the Sociology Department Honors Program. Students develop a research prospectus that is to be the basis of the Senior Thesis. This is an interactive seminar stressing hands-on experience. Skills in topic selection, research design, and theory construction are emphasized. [Title] | Senior Honors Seminar | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (honors) [Old number] SC399 [New number] SOCY4962 [Description] Enrollment limited to candidates for Scholar of The College. This is not a classroom course. Talk to instructor and review registration procedures. [Title] | Advanced Independent Research | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Undergrad elective (honors) [Old number] SC556 [New number] SOCY4963 [Description] After having completed their research proposal in SOCY4961, Students in the Undergraduate Sociology Honors Program then complete the data collection, the analysis, and the writing of their senior thesis during the spring of the senior year. In SOCY4963, students complete their thesis research under the direction of their faculty advisor. Ordinarily, students are expected to complete their thesis by April 15, approximately two weeks before all senior honors students present the findings of their research in a public meeting. [Title] | Senior Honors Thesis | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] New [New number] SOCY5508 [Description] Evaluation research is a powerful tool that supports organizations to strengthen their programs and policies, and secure funding for their work. Part science/part art, evaluation research is driven by the question: Who needs to know what and for what purpose? Funders want data regarding whether their investments are well-spent; organizations want to know if their program goals are being met. This course explores the arc of implementing an evaluation of a program or policy, including creating a Logic Model and research design, collecting and analyzing data, and reporting findings to the organization. Combines in-class work with intensive field research. [Title] | Applied Sociology: Evaluation Research | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] New [New number] SOCY5509 [Description] This course examines a range of feminist, social science and philosophy of science literature that is concerned with issues of methodology. We address the following: (1) What are the basic assumptions concerning the scientific method in the existing social science literature? (2) Is there a feminist methodology? (3) To what degree is science a cultural institution influenced by economic, social and political values? (4) To what extent is science affected by sexist attitudes and to what extent does it reinforce them? [Title] | Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC510 [New number] SOCY5510 [Description] Mixed methods research is moving across the social science landscape. Funding agencies now require a mixed methods component in their funding guidelines. This course introduces a range of mixed methods designs approached from a qualitative and quantitative perspective. We introduce a "hands on" approach to explore elements of mixed methods projects - from the formulation of questions to data collection, analysis and interpretation. We utilize a computer assisted program to analyze and interpret mixed methods data. Students will develop a mixed methods research proposal project or conduct a critical review of existing research employing mixed methods designs.This course welcomes graduate students from a range of the health sciences, education as well as the social sciences and humanities. We examine how mixed methods research can promote credibility of evidence within given mixed methods projects. [Title] | Approaches to Mixed Methods | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC511 [New number] SOCY5511 [Description] This seminar-format course explores the theory and practice of ethnography. Students will develop and sharpen analytic and observational skills by doing supervised fieldwork. Topics covered include: gaining access, establishing rapport, creating theory inductively from data, taking and organizing field notes, and developing action research strategies. There will also be a thorough analysis of research ethics. [Title] | Ethnography and Field Research | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC513 [New number] SOCY5513 [Description] This course will be a broad exploration of the major issues and themes in the field of postcolonial studies. We will examine such issues as images and representation, gender and sexuality, and resistance. The course will be a broad based exploration of the different theoretical approaches within the discipline of postcolonial studies, as well as the major critiques. [Title] | Introduction to Postcolonial Studies | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC516 [New number] SOCY5516 [Description] This applied course is designed for undergraduate students with a prior background in statistics at the level of SOCY2200 (Statistics) and for graduate students with a prior background in statistics at the level of SOCY7702 (Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis). The course will lead students through the design, collection, and analysis of their own surveys. Major topics will include research ethics, sampling, item selection, modes of response, interviewer effects, nonresponse, and data management and analysis. Qualtrics and SPSS will be used to design internet surveys and analyze the resulting data, respectively. [Title] | Survey Methodology | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC518 [New number] SOCY5518 [Description] This seminar introduces students to qualitative methods of inquiry. This is a "hands on course" in which you will collect and analyze your own data. We will examine the scope and principles of qualitative inquiry, and the basic techniques of ethnographic observation, interviewing, recording and transcribing, data analysis, and writing reports. We will discuss strategies for gaining entry into your research site, identifying key informants, selecting respondents, and considering the ethical responsibilities of qualitative researchers. To understand what constitutes good research, we will first read and critique key qualitative studies and then discuss hands-on research conducted by seminar participants. [Title] | Participant Observation | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC519 [New number] SOCY5519 [Description] This course introduces students to techniques for carrying out public policy research in an applied setting. The course covers a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches to public policy research, providing an overview of experimental design, econometric techniques, and ethnographic practices, and examines how various methodological approaches lend themselves to specific research questions. The course is structured around lectures and case discussions. Student will receive training and practice in the skills of applied policy analysis using practical, real-world examples of public policy research. Prerequisite: SOCY7702, SOCY2200 or equivalent statistics coursework. [Title] | Applied Policy Research | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC520 [New number] SOCY5520 [Description] Although biological and psychological approaches will be considered, this reading and participation intensive course will examine gender primarily as a social and structural construct. The course will begin with central debates in gender studies (e.g., the merits of biological explanations of gender) and how feminisms--mainstream, Black, and others--have shaped theoretical and empirical studies of gender. We will then move into specific topics, such as family and sex work, and students will be required to lead a class discussion. The course will be highly attuned to differences based on race and class. [Title] | Gender and Society | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC525 [New number] SOCY5525 [Description] This course provides thorough coverage of current topics in social gerontology. We'll begin the class by discussing theories of aging and the life course from multiple social scientific disciplines. Then we will cover specific topics in four general areas of sociology: roles and relationships (e.g., within the family), inequalities (e.g., ageism), institutions (e.g., health care), and social change (e.g., the aging of the population). By the end of the course, you will have comprehensive knowledge of classic and current social gerontological literature, and you will be able to identify emerging topics of importance for future basic research and applied practice. [Title] | Social Gerontology | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC532 [New number] SOCY5532 [Description] This seminar involves an historical sociological exploration of social technologies of image-making in art, science, religion, advertising, politics and everyday life. Of particular concern is the cognitive, moral and bodily power of images in relation to the cultural politics of class, race, sex and gender. Course participants are expected to engage with a wide range of critical literatures pertaining to the material and imaginary power of images and to engage in ethnographic fieldwork, resulting in a mixed-media study of the power of imagery in a particular social scene or institution. [Title] | Images and Power | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC533 [New number] SOCY5533 [Description] This seminar explores social psychic repetitions at the heart of everyday life and how unconscious social forces affect the ritual organization of power, culture, and history. Inviting a dialogue between sociology and psychoanalysis, the course encourages a critical examination of suggestive social phantasms and fears, compulsive fascinations and desires, selective memories and forgettings. Intended as an advanced introduction to the theories and methods of social psychoanalysis, the seminar pays particular attention to the unconscious haunts of gendered, racialized, erotic, and class-based forms of power in a global historical context. [Title] | Social Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC540 [New number] SOCY5540 [Description] This internship program is designed for students who wish to acquire practical work experience in a human service, political, social research, or social policy agency--private or governmental, profit or nonprofit. Students have the primary responsibility of locating their own placement setting; however, both the instructor and the BC Internship Program Office in the Career Center can be of help. Students must meet with the instructor before registering to receive permission to register for the course, make sure that they will be available at the time the seminar will meet, and receive the details about the course and placements. [Title] | Internship in Sociology I | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC541 [New number] SOCY5541 [Description] This internship program is designed for students who wish to acquire practical work experience in a human service, political, social research, or social policy agency--private or governmental, profit or nonprofit. Students have the primary responsibility of locating their own placement setting; however, both the instructor and the BC Internship Program Office in the Career Center can be of help. Students must meet with the instructor before registering to receive permission to register for the course, make sure that they will be available at the time the seminar will meet, and receive the details about the course and placements. [Title] | Internship in Sociology II | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC554 [New number] SOCY5554 [Description] This course situates the researcher as practitioner and provides a foundation in the application of qualitative methods to applied settings. It offers training in social research designs connected to social issues and problems central to public health, clinical, social science and educational settings. It provides a "hands on" approach to learning methods--focus groups interviews, in-depth interviews, case studies and evaluation designs--that are deployed to answer complex social questions and issues. The course introduces mixed methods designs that bring together qualitative and quantitative methods especially as this relates to randomized control trial (RCT) experimental designs. [Title] | Qualitative Methods for Applied Settings | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC558 [New number] SOCY5558 [Description] This is an upper level research methods course. Students will be introduced to the techniques of carrying out qualitative research. We will compare and contrast the major analytical approaches to different qualitative research designs. Students will carry out a qualitative research project, data collection (e.g., conduct intensive interviews, participant observation) and analysis, and writing/presenting qualitative research. [Title] | Qualitative Methods | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC559 [New number] SOCY5559 [Description] What are markets and how do they work? Whereas economists tend to assume that markets are anonymous, and more or less universal, economic sociologists study how markets are shaped by other social structures, such as law, culture, and social networks. This advanced mixed graduate-undergraduate seminar examines these issues in readings from sociology, economics, anthropology, and history. Some specific themes covered include corporations, social networks, globalization, economic development, the role of race and gender in labor markets, how culture shapes consumption, and how markets and human emotions intersect and collide. Please contact the professor about permission to register. [Title] | Economic Sociology | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC560 [New number] SOCY5560 [Description] As ecological degradation intensified, this course addresses the role of consumption in achieving sustainability, considering issues such as the scale of consumption in the global north, the spread of consumer culture globally, and the role of damaging goods and services. We begin with social theory and apply it to sustainable consumption practices. While much of the literature is pessimistic, consumer culture is remarkably dynamic. Students will develop a strong analytic context and learn to evaluate the growing literature and applied activity in this field. Readings include Bourdieu, Giddens, Shove, Sachs, Holt, Thompson, Seyfang and others. [Title] | Consumption and Sustainability | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC561 [New number] SOCY5561 [Description] The 2008 global economic collapse, the Occupy movement and the specter of climate change have re-kindled interest in critiques of conventional economics. They are also fuelling interest in “new economics,” which is a small scale, egalitarian, ecologically-light alternative. Occupy Economics will be a collaborative weekly seminar exploring what’s wrong with the dominant brand of economics and what alternatives exist. We will read and discuss classics by authors such as Marx, Keynes and E.F. Schumacher, as well as contemporary writers and thinkers such as Elinor Ostrom, Paul Hawken, Gar Alperovitz, Stephen Marglin and others. Requirements are flexible. [Title] | Occupy Economics | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC562 [New number] SOCY5562 [Description] This course reviews some of the major literatures and lines of research in environmental sociology. The literature emphasized here (1) pioneered the formation of environmental sociology, (2) directed its various trajectories, and (3) represents recent developments. Classical readings include the works of Karl Marx, Kautsky, and Adam Smith. Early environmental sociology works include those of Catton, Dunlap, Freudenberg, Buttel, Schnaiberg, Merchant, and others. Contemporary trajectories explored include ecological modernization, treadmill of production, ecology of the world-system, world polity theory, eco-Marxism, eco-feminism, actor-network theory, environmental justice, critical studies of global environmental governance, and political ecology. [Title] | Environmental Sociology I | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC563 [New number] SOCY5563 [Description] This seminar will introduce students to various theoretical approaches to trauma and traumatic impact and examine the sociological, psychological, and service oriented implications of these approaches. Multiple types of trauma will be conceptualized and investigated; from interpersonal level traumas like child sexual abuse and rape, to mass level traumas such as the Holocaust, U.S. slavery, and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack against the U.S. Larger socio-cultural forces will be examined in analyzing both the exposure to and recovery from traumatic events. The course will be highly attuned to differences based on race, class, and gender. [Title] | Trauma, Culture, and Coping | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC378 [New number] SOCY5565 [Description] Starting with a discussion of its history and the relevance of values and ethics to its practice, the course takes up the various social work methods of dealing with individuals, groups, and communities and their problems. In addition to a discussion of the theories of human behavior that apply to social work interventions, the course examines the current policies and programs, issues, and trends of the major settings in which social work is practiced. [Title] | Introduction to Social Work | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] New [New number] SOCY5567 [Description] This sociolinguistics course will provide an in-depth and hands-on exploration of language variation in modern cities. Focusing particularly on Boston—but with reference to cities worldwide—students will examine the relationship between language and society in urban areas, with specific regard to language variation associated with social factors such as socio-economic class and ethnicity. Students will read the “classics” of sociolinguistics and build a good foundation in sociolinguistic research methodology. As a major component of this course, students will design and carry out a research project based on fieldwork in the local Boston speech community. [Title] | Urban Dialectology | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC568 [New number] SOCY5568 [Description] This course will examine the scope and usefulness of the sociology of education. A number of critical problems will be examined such as the following: How does schooling influence socialization, the social organization of knowledge, and the structure of economic opportunity? How do schools as formal organizations transmit and institutionalize social norms and habits? How do the dynamics of educational organization work? Does education generate inequality by reproducing social classes? Are there any relationship between educational achievement and economic opportunity? What role does schooling play in modernization and social change in less developed societies? [Title] | Sociology of Education | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC570 [New number] SOCY5570 [Description] An intensive examination of foundational texts representing pluralist, elite, and class theories of the state in industrialized capitalist democracies. The course includes lecture and seminar-style discussion of the historical dimensions of political sociology as well as its application to current areas of inquiry. After revealing its foundations, the course will explore how political sociology is used in studies on governmentality, globalization and state crises, and environmental history. Students will be expected to participate in course discussions, provide weekly write-ups, and write a final paper. [Title] | Political Sociology | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC572 [New number] SOCY5572 [Description] This course offers an introduction to the Sociology of Science Studies in the actor-network tradition. Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is becoming quite influential in many areas, from sociology to techno-science studies, to feminist studies, to economics, to geography/environmental sociology. The course focuses on the contributions of Bruno Latour to ANT, but will include other contributions. Initial readings will follow the trajectory of some of Latour's foundational works. Subsequent readings will include debates in and around ANT as applied to environmental problems from within ANT, and from "ANTish" critical environmental sociology/geography. Final set of readings visits Latour's book, Reassembling the Social. [Title] | Sociology of Science Studies | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC573 [New number] SOCY5573 [Description] This course has three main foci: (1) to understand what constitutes culture and how it is constructed, (2) to examine how culture influences, or co-constitutes, social processes and structures, and (3) to examine culture as a tool for social action. We will discuss several active debates in the literature on culture: structure vs. agency, form vs. content, and coherence vs. incoherence. Culture touches many sub disciplines in sociology (race, gender, social movements, politics, nationalism, etc.). The theoretical works we will read are broadly oriented towards many areas of social like. The empirical readings emphasize inequality, race, class, gender, and work. [Title] | Sociology of Culture | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC574 [New number] SOCY5574 [Description] Over the past two decades the concept of “globalization” has taken academia by storm. The movement of people, capital, and cultures across borders has profoundly reshaped local structures transforming the everyday lives of people in every corner of the globe. In this course we will explore several factors that shape a global world include the role of nation states, economic capital, and laws that permit or inhibit the movement of people across borders. We consider theory and policy oriented towards addressing not just material deprivations but also gender, racial and ethnic disparities, health status, education, human rights, and political freedoms. [Title] | Globalization, Gender and Development | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC577 [New number] SOCY5577 [Description] Theology course, cross-listed with Sociology. [Title] | Sociology of Religion | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC578 [New number] SOCY5578 [Description] Contemporary capitalism is in a crisis because of the general lack of social responsiveness on the part of corporate executives, shareholders, investors, and other economic stakeholders. In response, movements have arisen in recent decades to respond to this crisis including socially responsive investing, shareholder and consumer action, and corporate social responsibility. This seminar, through shared readings and discussions, will consider the ways in which these movements are responding to the crisis in capitalism. We will consider alternative and more productive forms of economic and business conduct. [Title] | Corporate Social Responsibility | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC583 [New number] SOCY5583 [Description] This seminar will examine recent theoretical and historical claims concerning the emergence of postmodern social formations. It will also explore the implications of postmodernity for the practice of sociological theory and methods. Of central concern will be critical theoretical attempts to understand shifting configurations of economic, gendered and racialized forms of power within a global context of information-driven capital. [Title] | Postmodernity and Social Theory | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC590 [New number] SOCY5590 [Description] This course explores work and family conflicts and the tension between carework as private responsibility versus carework as a public good. We examine the private cost of motherhood and the social and economic consequences of child-raising, including those faced by low-income parents without public provision of family welfare. We return to the question, does the larger society have care responsibilities for its people? We also focus on purchased care and paid careworkers, exploring the race/class identity of this fastest-growing labor market and their care-impoverished families. [Title] | Carework and Inequality | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC591 [New number] SOCY5591 [Description] From warning off paupers to getting welfare mothers to work, this course provides an overview of social attitudes, national debates and public policies toward low-income families and their communities. Readings examine relationships between poverty and race, gender, families with children and the low-wage job market. We will consider images and language describing the poor and how these may influence public opinion and social investment. Student research will explore and compare contemporary costs of living, wage levels, and family care needs in middle-class and low-income families. [Title] | From Poor Laws to Working Poor: Low-Income America and Public Policy | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC593 [New number] SOCY5593 [Description] This course is an advanced seminar restricted to second-semester senior Women's and Gender Studies minors. Enrollment is by permission only. [Title] | Advanced Topics: Transnational Feminisms | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC596 [New number] SOCY5596 [Description] This course will examine Black families within the United States. This reading and participation intensive seminar will analyze family dynamics from a race, class, and gender perspective and will not assume a uniform Black family experience. Although we will pay careful attention to the historical foundations for many of the contemporary issues now facing families of African descent, we will primarily focus on modern-day dynamics and debates within and outside of Black families. [Title] | Black Families and Society | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC597 [New number] SOCY5597 [Description] This class will explore how various contemporary writers engage with the question of race, both in the United States and transnationally. We will look at social constructionist theories of race, postmodernism, feminist theory, critical legal studies, and the intersection between contemporary race theory and queer theory. [Title] | Contemporary Race Theory | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC598 [New number] SOCY5598 [Description] Using Black bodies as a focal point, this course will examine the intersections of race and sexuality in the U.S. on both an inter-personal and national level. Although we will pay careful attention to the historical foundations for many of the contemporary issues now facing people of African descent, we will primarily focus on modern day dynamics and debates within and outside of African-American communities. Topics covered include: poverty and social policy, family and sex education, religion, hip-hop, and public health. [Title] | Politics of Black Sexuality | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC664 [New number] SOCY6664 [Description] Students meet weekly with the faculty advisor to discuss assigned readings—interdisciplinary feminist pedagogy—and with their respective seminar groups from SOCY2255. (This course is for "Intro. to Feminisms" TAs.) [Title] | Colloquium: Teaching Women's Studies | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Mixed grad/undergrad [Old number] SC670 [New number] SOCY6670 [Description] This interdisciplinary course will first investigate the social, political, psychological, ethical and spiritual aspects of the Western cultural development with a special emphasis on scientific and technological metaphors and narratives from the Greeks to the present. We will then focus on the contemporary world, examining the impact of our various technological creations on cultural directions, democratic process, quality of the lifeworld and on the emergent meanings for the terms "citizen" and "ethics" in our so-called post-modern society. [Title] | Technology and Culture | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC799 [New number] SOCY7101 [Description] Independent research on a topic mutually agreed upon by the student and the professor. Professor's written consent must be obtained prior to registration. [Title] | Readings and Research | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC798 [New number] SOCY7102 [Description] In this apprenticeship-style course, students will do substantive reading, contribute to research design/instrumentation, conduct fieldwork and collaborate in data analysis and writing. With a focus on research about inequality, the professor will work closely with students as they learn about undertaking complicated social inquiry and working on a collaborative research team. [Title] | Research Practicum | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC701 [New number] SOCY7701 [Description] This is a hands-on practicum. Class participants engage in ethnographic research projects of their own choosing. During the semester, students read and comment on each other's field notes and analyses, as do I. By the end of the semester, everyone produces a research paper based on their ethnographic work. Many of these projects become masters papers or parts of dissertations. During class sessions, we discuss theory and data, fieldwork and writing, emotions and analysis, as required by the specific project at hand. [Title] | Ethnography Practicum | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC702 [New number] SOCY7702 [Description] This course will introduce the basic statistical concepts used in social research including centrality and dispersion, correlation and association, probability and hypothesis testing, as well as provide an introduction to the BC computer system and the SPSS data analysis package. [Title] | Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC703 [New number] SOCY7703 [Description] This course assumes knowledge of material covered in SOCY7702; that is, a solid background in SPSS and a basic course in statistics. We will focus on two general statistical procedures multiple regression and logistic regression (maybe including multinominal logistic regression). In this context we consider data transformations, analysis of residuals and outliers, covariance analysis, interaction terms, quadratic regression, dummy variables, stepwise regression, path analysis, and if time permits multiple imputation to deal with missing data. Our focus is on data analysis, not on the mathematical foundations of the statistical procedures considered. In addition, we discuss exploratory factor analysis at the end of the course. This course does not make use of matrix algebra. [Title] | Multivariate Statistics | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC704 [New number] SOCY7704 [Description] This applied course is designed for students in sociology, education, nursing, organizational studies, political science, psychology, or social work with a prior background in statistics at the level of SOCY7703 Multivariate Statistics. It assumes a strong grounding in multivariate regression analysis. The major topics of the course will include OLS regression diagnostics, binary, ordered, and multinomial logistic regression, models for the analysis of count data (e.g., Poisson and negative binomial regression), treatment of missing data, and the analysis of clustered and stratified samples. All analyses in the course will be conducted using Stata, but no previous Stata experience is necessary. [Title] | Regression Models for Categorical Data (formerly called Topics in Multivariate Stats, although it's still the same course) | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC705 [New number] SOCY7705 [Description] This applied course is designed for students in sociology, education, nursing, organizational studies, political science, psychology, or social work with a prior background in statistics at the level of SOCY7703 Multivariate Statistics. It assumes a strong grounding in multivariate regression analysis. The major topics of the course will include hierarchical linear modeling and structural equation modeling. We will use HLM and LISREL to conduct the analyses. [Title] | Advanced Statistics | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC706 [New number] SOCY7706 [Description] This applied course is designed for students in sociology, education, nursing, organizational studies, political science, psychology, or social work with a prior background in statistics at the level of SOCY7703 Multivariate Statistics. It assumes a strong grounding in multivariate regression analysis. The course will focus on panel data management and analysis, with topics including change models, fixed and random effects models, GEE models, and mixed models. All analyses in the course will be conducted using Stata, but no previous Stata experience is necessary. [Title] | Longitudinal Analysis | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC708 [New number] SOCY7708 [Description] This applied course on hierarchical linear modeling is designed for graduate students with a thorough knowledge of OLS regression. It will cover 2-level models for continuous, categorical, and count outcomes, 3-level models, growth curve models, and models for couple data. The goals of the course are to develop the skills necessary to identify an appropriate technique for multilevel data analysis, estimate models, conduct diagnostics, and interpret results. We will use HLM 6 to perform the analyses; no prior knowledge of this software is required. [Title] | Hierarchical Linear Modeling | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC709 [New number] SOCY7709 [Description] This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to quantitative data management using Stata; the focus will be on working with complex datasets (both cross-sectional and longitudinal) and preparing them for analysis. This course is intended for students who need to manage data for academic or non-academic projects. [Title] | Quantitative Data Management | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC710 [New number] SOCY7710 [Description] This course presents the wide range of alternative research methods available to and widely used by the social researcher. Among those considered are the following: survey research, observational field research, intensive interviewing, experimental research, historical analysis, and content analysis. Considerable attention will be given to comparisons among these alternative methods, to an assessment of the relative strengths and limitations of each, and to issues related to research design and proposal writing. In the context of these alternative research methods, attention will be given to problem formulation, measurement, reliability, validity, sampling, and ethical considerations. [Title] | Social Inquiry Research Seminar | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC715 [New number] SOCY7715 [Description] Focusing on the work of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, the course traces the philosophic, intellectual, and social history of the ideas, themes, concepts, and schools of thought we now call "classical sociological theory." Supportive thinkers will also be discussed as they contributed to the emergence and establishment of modern sociological thought. [Title] | Classical Social Theory | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC716 [New number] SOCY7716 [Description] This seminar is a graduate level introduction to contemporary social theory. It concerns the historical context and development of a wide variety of perspectives used by social theorists to make sense of multiple social worlds. It also concerns the ways in which social theories are themselves sociologically constructed. Theoretical frameworks addressed include: functionalism and cybernetics; symbolic interactionism and pragmatism; exchange, behavioral, and conflict perspectives; feminism; Marxism; phenomenology and ethnomethodology; critical race theory; queer theory; structuralism and poststructuralism; as well as postcolonial and postmodern theories of the subject and power. [Title] | Contemporary Social Theory | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC735 [New number] SOCY7735 [Description] This is a graduate-level, social research course focusing on inquiry into the lives and knowledge of low-income people, immigrants, people of color and all others who experience marginalization. We consider methodological, representational, personal and ethical issues. All students should be (or will be during the term) engaged in field research that, along with readings, will be central to a collaborative learning approach. [Title] | Research at the Margins | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC737 [New number] SOCY7737 [Description] This course is designed to provide doctoral students (and advanced masters students) with an overview of current issues in the field of early childhood/elementary education by reviewing and discussing a wide range of theory and research relevant to the period of development from 0-8 years of age. The course will review theoretical frameworks that are influential in early childhood/elementary education including constructivist, contextualist, and developmental systems theories. In addition, the course will explore current early childhood programs and models. Particular attention will be given to the domain of language and literacy development across models and research in this area. Finally, contemporary debates and controversies in the field will be explored, with a specific focus on policy implications. Emphasis will be given to how theory, models and research in this area address the needs of all learners, including culturally and linguistically diverse children. [Title] | Contemporary Issues in Curriculum&Instruction (CONTEMP ISSUES:CURR&INST) | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC744 [New number] SOCY7744 [Description] An interdisciplinary course designed for graduate students from across the university seeking to understand the personal meaning and financial trends of philanthropy, especially among wealth holders; and for those who may become donors, fundraisers, or nonprofit executives. Philanthropy is one component of moral biography by which individuals freely allocate resources to achieve their discerned vocational purposes. Topics include: the history of philanthropy; its philosophical, spiritual, and sociological underpinnings; its patterns and trends in the U.S. and globally; its motivations; how research methodology affects findings; the daily personal assistance we provide to others; and how to conduct biographical conversations with donors. [Title] | Philanthropy in Biography and Society: History, Trends, Meaning, Motives, Spirituality, and Practice | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC751 [New number] SOCY7751 [Description] This seminar draws on the literature in political sociology and social movements to address sustained efforts to bring about social and political change. It is geared toward the problems and issues faced by groups involved in such efforts: (1) diagnosing the opportunities and constraints provided by the system in which they are operating; (2) analyzing the problems of mobilizing potential supporters and maintaining their continued loyalty and commitment; (3) devising effective strategies for influencing targets of change; and (4) dealing with counter-efforts at social control. [Title] | Quest for Social Justice | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] New [New number] SOCY7753 [Description] The objective of this research is to provide graduate students with an opportunity to conduct research in organizations. To accomplish this objective, this seminar will present principles of theorizing of formal organizations, so that students learn to conceptualize from the assigned readings and develop theoretical explanations. The readings will introduce basic concepts that guide a broad level of understanding of formal organizations and at the same time give practice in applying them to analyses. [Title] | Organizational Analysis | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC761 [New number] SOCY7761 [Description] The writing seminar is intended for second year M.A. and Ph.D. students working on their M.A. theses/papers. The 3-credit seminar begins in fall and continues into the spring term. The seminar employs a supportive structure and a collaborative learning environment to help students to carry out their independent projects. Students will be graded on the drafts of their research papers submitted at the end of the spring semester. [Title] | Second Year Graduate Writing Seminar | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC763 [New number] SOCY7763 [Description] This course is designed as both a stand-alone class and a follow-on to Brian Gareau’s graduate Environmental Sociology seminar. We will look at a series of topics within environmental sociology, broadly defined. These include the sociology of climate change, food and agriculture, water, environmental activism, sustainable consumption and its politics (including the politics of fair trade), environmental justice, the debate about limits to growth, and the emerging field of “new economics.” Some of the authors we will read include Kari Norgaard (Living in Denial), Julie Guthman (Agrarian Dreams), Goodman, DuPuis and Goodman (Alternative Food Networks), Gibson-Graham (Post-Capitalist Politics), Daniel Jaffee (Brewing Justice), Andrew Szasz (Shopping Our Way to Safety). [Title] | Topics in Environmental Sociology | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC771 [New number] SOCY7771 [Description] This course will examine debates about consumer society and culture, with emphasis on sociological literature. In addition to classic texts (Veblen, Adorno and Horkheimer, Bourdieu, Baudrillard), we will consider more recent contributions (Holt, Bordo, Thompson). We will also consider how consumer culture structures identities, including by class, race, and identity. The latter part of the course will address particular topics such as globalization, the politics of consumption, and ecology. [Title] | Understanding Consumer Society | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] SC781 [New number] SOCY7781 [Description] This is a continuing research workshop which covers all stages of the research process, from conceptualization and theory development through data analysis and writing. The workshop is intended primarily for sociology graduate students working on dissertations. Others will be welcomed on a case-by-case basis. The group meets bi-weekly, with individual meetings with the professor as necessary. All students who are writing dissertations are strongly recommended to enroll in this workshop, at least for one semester. [Title] | Dissertation Seminar | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] New [New number] SOCY8923 [Description] This doctoral course explores the epistemological, methodological, and pedagogical uses of Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality (CRT/Int), and Settler Colonialism, in the examination and deconstruction of institutionalized and race-based disparities and inequalities in societal institutions, including, but not limited to, K-12 education, higher education, psychology, and the law. Course texts and student work will utilize both academic and popular culture texts. The course assumes and builds upon a foundational knowledge of social theories, and the ways in which self, institution and society are connected. [Title] | Critical Race Theory | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
820b047c_gy_Department___Boston_College__Title | [Level] Grad [Old number] New [New number] SOCY9981 [Description] This is a continuing research workshop which covers all stages of the research process, from conceptualization and theory development through data analysis and writing. The workshop is intended primarily for sociology graduate students working on dissertations. Others will be welcomed on a case-by-case basis. The group meets bi-weekly, with individual meetings with the professor as necessary. All students who are writing dissertations are strongly recommended to enroll in this workshop, at least for one semester. [Title] | Dissertation Seminar | [] | Sociology Department - Boston College | Title | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/courses/CourseDescriptions.html | 6/1438042987135.9_20150728002307-00066-ip-10-236-191-2_323244987_0.json |
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