SOCIOLOGY

230.109 (S)
(W)

HOT TOPICS IN EDUCATION (3)
Alexander   Limit 15   Freshmen only
This course examines current school reform initiatives and the controversies surrounding them through a sociological lens.

Sec. 01

TTh 10:30-11:45

230.114 (S)

LABOR AND GLOBALIZATION (3)
Silver  Limit 30  Themes include the impact of global processes such as immigration and capital mobility on the nature of work and employment in different parts of the world, and how local protest has shaped global social change.

Sec. 01

MWF 11-11:50

230.199 (S)

CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CORRECTIONS (3) Harris   Limit 60   An overview of the criminal justice system including court watching and riding with a police officer (optional). Class includes guest visits, field trips, and term projects.

Sec. 01

T 1:30-4

230.201 (S)

THE HIP HOP GENERATION: POWER, IDENTITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE (3) Gosa    Limit 24 Hip‑hop is used to frame the critical analysis of power, identity, and social change in America. Through music, film, and text, students will explore the topics of (dis)advantage, race, gender/sexuality, and resistance.

Sec. 01

TTh 9-10:15

230.202 (S)

RESEARCH METHODS FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (3) Hao   Limit 30  The purpose of this course is to provide a sound introduction to the overall process of research and the specific research methods most frequently used by sociologists and other social scientists. The major topics covered include (1) scientific inquiry and the role of theory in research, (2) causation, (3) conceptualization and operationalization, (4) research design-including experiments, survey research, field research, and comparative research.

Sec. 01

T 1:30-3:10,
Th 1:30-2:20

230.213 (S) (W)

SOCIAL THEORY (3) Andreas   Limit 30   This course provides an introduction to classical sociological theories (with an emphasis on Marx, Weber, and Durkheim). Contemporary theoretical perspectives on social inequality, conflict, and social change are also explored. Emphasis is placed on understanding the theoretical constructs as well as on applying them in the analysis of current social issues.

Sec. 01

TTh 9-10:15

230.307 (S)

SOCIOLOGY OF LATIN AMERICA (3) Von der Heydt   Limit 30  This course will offer an overview of Latin America's reality through its economic, social, political and cultural dimensions.  Latin American development will be analyzed as a historical process determined by intertwined internal socio-economic factors, however, within the constraints of the world economy.
Cross-listed with Latin American Studies, Public Health Studies, and Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality

Sec. 01

TTh 10:30-11:45

230.314 (S)

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (3) Arrighi   Limit 30   Recent trends in the global distribution of wealth, status and power will be analyzed in light of theories of national and international development. Special attention will be paid to the unevenness of development between and within the global North and South.

Sec. 01

M 3-5:30pm

230.318 (S)

STATE AND SOCIETY RELATIONS IN MODERN INDIA (3) Agarwala   Limit 30   This course examines the complex, at times conflicting, relationship that has emerged between Indian seats of power from above and Indian expressions of society from below. Attention will be placed on the period between 1947 to the present.

Sec. 01

T 3-5:30pm

230.325 (S)

COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY RESEARCH PRACTICUM (3) Silver   Limit 30   This course provides "hands on" research experience in comparative and historical sociology. Sociological research tools and perspectives will be used to analyze social structure, conflict and change. This course is suitable for both majors and non‑majors, and fulfills the "research practicum" requirement for Sociology majors.

Sec. 01

W 3-4:50,
F 10-10:50

230.332 (S)

RACE, RACISM, AND RACIAL PRIVILEGE (3) McDonald   Limit 30 This course will examine the concepts of race, racism, racial privilege in contemporary America, and the West in general.  Examples from other countries will be integrated as well. Historical contexts such as the colonialism, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Civil Rights movement, and the post‑Civil Rights era will help to provide an understanding of the social, political, economic, and cultural forces processes that have constructed and shaped the concepts of race and the racialized subject over time. Cross-listed with Africana Studies

Sec. 01

MWF 9-9:50

230.341 (S)

MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY (3) Smith   Limit 15 30 per section  This course introduces students to medical sociology, which is the application of the sociological perspective to health and health care. Major topics include stress, social epidemiology, and the social organization of health care. 
Cross-listed with Public Health Studies
Secs. 05 & 06 added 12/18/07

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02
03
04
05
06

MW 1:30-2:20
F 1:30-2:20
F 1:30-2:20
F 12-12:50
F 12-12:50
F 12-12:50
F 1:30-2:20 12-12:50

230.388 (S)

SOCIOLOGY OF FAMILY (3)  Cherlin  Limit 15  Sociological perspectives on contemporary family life, including marriage and divorce, cohabitation, single parenthood, same‑sex partnerships, children’s well‑being, balancing work and family responsibilities, domestic violence, and government policy toward families.
Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Sec. 01

TTh 1:30-2:45

100.322 (H,S)
(W)

THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS AT THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (3)
Shell-Weiss   Limit 12 
Cross-listed with History, Public Health Studies, and Africana Studies

Sec. 01

W 1:30-4

Sec. 01

M 1:30-3:50

362.457 (H,S) (W)

RICHARD WRIGHT AND MODERNISM (3) Hayes   Limit 25  
Cross-listed with Political Science and Africana Studies

Sec. 01

Th 1:30-4

230.500

INDEPENDENT STUDY

230.502

SENIORS HONORS PROGRAM

230.506

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

230.508

 INTERNSHIP

230.601

RESEARCH DESIGN DeLuca Limit 15  A survey of research design with emphasis on the appropriateness of the design of the research for the theoretical problems to which it is addressed. Discussions of funded research proposals illustrate practical problems related to human subjects, availability of archival data, and timing of measurement.

Sec. 01

W 4-6pm T 2-3:50

230.603

CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY  Andreas   Limit 15 Contemporary theories of social interaction. Functionalism: Parsons and Merton. Critical sociology and conflict theory: Mills, Habermas, and Bourdieu. Symbolic interactionism: Mead, Blumer, and Goffman. Theories of rational choice: Homans, Blau, and Coleman. Ethnomethodology, standpoint theory, and postmodernism: Garfinkel, Smith, Foucault. Alternative solutions to the micro-macro "bridging problem."  

Sec. 01

Th 2-3:50

230.604

REGRESSION ANALYSIS  Plank Limit 15   Seminar in multiple regression (least squares and alternative estimation procedures) with a focus on sociological problems and software applications.  Graduate student prerequisite: 230.600 or equivalent.  Undergraduates only admitted with instructor's permission. 

Sec. 01

W 10-11:50,
F 10-10:50

230.605

CATEGORICAL DATA ANALYSIS Hao  Limit 15  This course provides the students with a set of statistical tools to understand and interpret social science research dealing with categorical dependent variables and to prepare students to apply these models in their own research. The models covered in the course include logit, probit, and Poisson models. The selected topics include multi-level models and measurement models.

Sec. 01

M 10-11:50,
W 4:30-5:20

230.609

DISSERTATION SEMINAR Kohn Limit 15  A semester-long course designed to enhance graduate students' understanding of the logic of sociological research, from the formulation of a research problem to proposal writing and data analysis. This course is designed for advanced graduate students preparing their dissertation proposals.

Sec. 01

T 10-11:50

230.611

SEMINAR ON COMPARATIVE AND WORLD-HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY Arrighi   Limit 15  In this seminar we will read key texts in comparative sociology. The topics covered are cross-national sociology, comparative national development, comparing world-systems, the modern world-system, globalization, and social movements.

Sec. 01

T 10-11:50

230.657

RACE, SEGREGATION, SOCIAL INEQUALITY Bennett   Limit 15  Residential segregation is a persistent feature of U.S.  urban landscapes.  It is an index of social position; one with serious consequences for minority populations.  We will approach the broad study of residential segregation as a form of racial and ethnic inequality.  Students will explore the history of residential segregation in the U.S., its patterns and causes, as well as its social, economic, and demographic consequences.

Sec. 01

W 2-3:50

230.660

SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND PERSONALITY Kohn  Limit 15   An intensive examination of the research literature on the relationships of position in the social structure (particularly the class structure and the social‑stratification hierarchy) with personality, based primarily on research conducted by the instructor and his collaborators in the United States, Japan, Poland when it was socialist, Poland and Ukraine during their transitions from socialism to nascent capitalism, and (currently) China during its very different transformation.

Sec. 01

Th 10-11:50

230.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY

230.801

RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP
Sec. 01 – Alexander 
Sec. 02 – Arrighi
Sec. 03 – Cherlin
Sec. 04 – Hao
Sec. 05 – Kohn
Sec. 06 – McDonald
Sec. 07 – Plank
Sec. 08 – Andreas
Sec. 09 – Bennett
Sec. 10 – DeLuca
Sec. 11 – Silver
Sec. 12 – Agarwala
Sec. 13 - Astone

Sec. 13 added 01/04/08

230.802

DISSERTATION RESEARCH
See 230.801 for faculty section numbers

230.804

RESEARCH APPRENTICESHIP
See 230.801 for faculty section numbers

230.811

TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIP
Sec. 01 – Alexander 
Sec. 02 – Arrighi
Sec. 03 – Cherlin
Sec. 04 – Hao
Sec. 05 – Kohn
Sec. 06 – McDonald
Sec. 07 – Plank
Sec. 08 – Andreas
Sec. 09 – Bennett
Sec. 10 – DeLuca
Sec. 11 – Silver
Sec. 12 – Agarwala
Sec. 13 - Clegg Smith
Sec. 14 - Harris

Sec. 13 added 01/07/08
Sec. 14 added 02/15/08

230.815

RESEARCH PAPER I

230.816

RESEARCH PAPER II