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Organized Crime: Mafias in Theory, in Film, and in Reality

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2020
SOCI E-126 Organized Crime: Mafias in Theory, in Film, and in Reality

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This course explores organized crime as interrelated social phenomena. Students read sociologists, historians, and other social scientists addressing the nature, causes and consequences of mafias in different national and historical contexts. The phenomenon of organized crime is further scrutinized through its (mis)representation in classic and modern cinematic...

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SOC 98ME - Sports and Violence

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019
https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/58402
How are sports and violence related? What role does sports play in especially-violent communities and societies? How come athletes are so often connected to violent behavior? Why are some sports more violent than others? Students will explore familiar and strange sports connections to activism, poverty, gangs, hooliganism, rioting, nationalism, war, international politics, and organized crime. We will learn why sport elicits such emotional fervor, and how that fervor is transmitted into good and bad social channels. A variety of case studies across the globe and history... Read more about SOC 98ME - Sports and Violence

SOC 157 Qualitative Methods in Sociology

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2018
Qualitative Methods in Sociology

This seminar offers an in-depth overview of qualitative research methods in sociology. We will focus on three methods: interviews, ethnography and content analysis/archival. Through a series of hands-on, applied exercises and practical case-studies of exemplary research, students will learn what qualitative study looks like in the real world. Students will receive training in the basic instruments, sampling...

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SOC 98mc: Protest and the State

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2016
Protest and the State

Social movement protests challenging state policy, legitimacy and leadership have become a central feature of American political life. This tutorial explores major protest episodes in the United States, emphasizing historical trajectories and movement precedents. Four major trajectories will be considered: (1) the Civil Rights Movements of the 1950s and 1960s, and Black Lives Matter activism; (2) 1960s student movements and 2000s antiwar activism; (3) early 20thcentury US labor movements, and anti-...

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