Classes

Money, Work, and Social Life

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2015

The course offers a sociological account of production, consumption, distribution, and transfer of assets. Examining different sectors of the economy from corporations and finance to households, immigrants, welfare, and illegal markets, we explore how in all areas of economic life people are creating, maintaining, symbolizing, and transforming meaningful social relations. Economic life, from this perspective, is as social as religion, family, or education.

Junior Tutorial: Understanding Mexican Migration Flows to the U.S.

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2013

The labor migration of workers from Mexico to the United States constitutes the largest contemporary international migration flow in the world. What motivates individuals to migrate across borders? What are the social and economic implications of sending migrants for origin households and communities? This tutorial will guide students through the preparation of an empirical research paper that explores these broad questions.

Qualifying Paper Workshop

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2011

Guides students through the process of producing an original research paper of high quality. Readings and discussion cover the identification of appropriate research problems, the nature of causal reasoning, and data analysis and write-up. 

Economic Sociology

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2010

This course is an introduction to the sociological examination of economic phenomena. As a subfield that has grown rapidly over the past twenty years, economic sociology has focused on three major activities: First, it has examined the prerequisites for and constraints to economic processes as defined by economists. Second, it has extended economic models to social phenomena rarely considered in the domain of economics. Third, and most ambitiously, it has tried to search for alternative accounts of phenomena typically formulated only in economic terms. This course will provide an overview...

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