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Meritocracy: Myth and Reality
In 2022, the Supreme Court took up two cases on affirmative action in higher education admissions, and hence on the meaning of merit ---one involving Harvard, the other the University of North Carolina. Meanwhile, in 2021, Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel advised German Social Democratic chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz to use the anti-meritocratic campaign theme of respect that helped him get elected. What is meritocracy and where did it come from? Is it a good way to organize society? What does the future of meritocracy look like? This class will explore the myth and reality of meritocracy to answer these questions.
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Ethnography and Public Policy
This course seeks to help students understanding the basic elements of the ethnographic method and how it can be applied to the analysis of various public policy settings. We will focus on the suitability of ethnography for addressing at least three basic issues: (1) how people on the ground are affected by public policies; (2) the unintended consequences of public policy; (3) the co-production of public services, particularly the interaction between front line bureaucrats and their clients.
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Applied Social Statistics
An introduction to basic concepts in probability and statistics with applications to social science research. We cover descriptive statistics, sampling distributions, statistical inference (including point estimation, confidence intervals and tests of hypotheses), the comparison of two or more groups, linear regression, and designs for causal inference. Throughout the course we use the open-source statistical package R to illustrate and apply the techniques. The course is intended to prepare students to take Advanced Social Statistics the following term.
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Advanced Social Statistics
Introduces theories of inference underlying most statistical methods and how new approaches are developed. The first half of the course covers maximum likelihood estimation and generalized linear models. The second half covers a number of topics useful for applied work including missing data, matching for causal inference and hierarchical models. The course concludes with a project replicating and extending a piece of work in the scholarly literature.
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The Sociology of Law
Sociology has always been engaged in the study of law and, in this course, we will examine law with the tools of sociology. In Segment I, The Building Blocks of Social Life, we will explore the ways in which law provides a crucial basis for social organization at the micro-, mid-level, and macro- levels of society. We will also explore the relationship between legal norms and the moral commitments of societies and social elites. In Segment II: The Legal Organization of Social Sectors, the course takes up the legal construction of race, gender and class, and explores the legal basis for the creation of crime, money, citizenship and terrorism.
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Love, Sex, and Marriage in Comparative Perspective
This course provides a critical analysis of the social contours of intimacy around the world. The course is divided into three units: romantic love, sexuality, and marriage. Within each unit, we will delve into specific topics with readings providing both a U.S. perspective and international comparisons. Sample topics include: romantic love and masculinity, sexuality and labor, and marriage and inequality. The course will emphasize critical reading and reflection of original empirical studies from sociology, anthropology, history, and gender studies, as well as active and student-led discussion.
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Crisis of Liberalism/Birth of Neoliberalism
This course looks at the crisis of liberalism from its beginning at the turn of the twentieth century to the founding of post-WW II world order. Critical liberal intellectuals in Great Britain, Continental Europe, and the United States, who observed that liberalism was unable to offer constructive answers to the problems of the world it had created, worked for a reform of liberalism based on a self-questioning analysis of what had gone wrong. The course will look at those responses to the crisis of liberalism, the critique of the dominant liberalism, and arguments for reform
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Facing Fascism
The course will explore how social sciences responded to the rise of fascism from 1920 to 1945. Its aim is to provide knowledge and information on fascist ideology and movements in historical perspective and conceptual and theoretical tools for making sense of fascism in our contemporary world. We will learn how social scientists perceived, understood and reacted to fascism and follow their insights and misconceptions, analyses and interpretations, debates and polemics, academic research and political work, through which the knowledge and understanding of fascism was accumulated and, all too often, neglected or forgotten in the past 75 years.
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Critical Approaches to Human Computer Interaction
How do people use contemporary technologies -- like cell phones, MMORPGs, text messages, and social network sites -- in their daily lives? What impact do these systems have on relationships, mobility, global systems, activism, sustainability and art? And can we design new systems to support these experiences? This senior seminar will bring together students in the social and computing sciences in an introduction to qualitative studies in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), to examine our assumptions in computing systems and reach for new dimensions of user experience.
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Simulating Social Processes: An Introduction to Agent Based Modeling
This course introduces students to the study of social processes using agent based models (ABMs)--computer simulations in which agents interact and generate social outcomes such as norms, culture, and inequality. In the first part of the course, we will discuss the theoretical foundations of ABMs, how to design models that explore empirical questions, and practice generating, visualizing, and analyzing results. The second part will focus on ABM applications in the social sciences and their substantive implications. Students will be encouraged to develop a critical appreciation of ABMs, and will produce their own model for the final project.