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Matrix approach to regression analysis with an emphasis on the assumptions behind OLS. Instrumental variables, generalized least squares, probit and logit models, survival analysis, hierarchical linear models, and systems of equations are studied.
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Examines current methodological scholarship in the social sciences with an eye to assessing its quality and potential for advancing quantitative methods. Recently published and unpublished work by local scholars examined.
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Examines current methodological scholarship in the social sciences with an eye to assessing its quality and potential for advancing quantitative methods. Recently published and unpublished work by local scholars examined.
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Treats longitudinal design and methods for the statistical analysis of longitudinal data with an emphasis on the analysis of change in discrete variables. Includes introduction to time series analysis. Statistical theory and practical applications covered.
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Reviews the major traditions in urban sociology and the sociology of culture, focusing on the connections between cultural creativity and urban change.
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Examines how different kinds of organizations and institutions work internationally and develop relationships with international partners and counterparts..
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Explores "What is a 'good citizen'?" in the context of American democracy and considers the role of formal voluntary associations in shaping "good" citizenship.
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Examines the intersection of social class and culture--both popular culture and "culture" in the anthropological sense. Focus on "class consciousness" as well as the cultural views of the class system, how social class is embedded in various high and popular cultural products such as art, music books, movies and material goods, and finally the question of how class is reproduced through culture. There will be several short research/analysis projects.
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Bi-weekly forum for advanced graduate students for presentation of their research. Only graduate students in sociology may register for credit. Students registered for credit must make a seminar presentation during the term.
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Bi-weekly forum for advanced graduate students for presentation of their research. Only graduate students in sociology may register for credit. Students registered for credit must make a seminar presentation during the term.
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One of the few courses at Harvard that integrates students' participation in activities outside the University with course work. Course integrates readings with hands-on research projects in the Boston area. Topics vary; refer to course website for details. Previous topics have included: immigration, marginalization, adolescents, civic activity.
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Analyzes the relationship between economic development, social change, and patterns of inequality in Japan, South Korea, and China. Students will actively help shape a new Harvard undergraduate General Education course in this area.
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A sociological introduction to Central Asia, focusing on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, and also including nearby Muslim societies such as Afghanistan and Xinjiang in Western China. Explores contemporary topics such as religion, politics, civil society, globalization, gender, demography, migration, and culture.
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A seminar devoted to the intensive analysis of a particular aspect of contemporary Chinese society. This year the focus will be on trends in inequality and stratification in China.
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Develops tools for the construction of sociological theory. Compares major contemporary sociological theories and their applications. Emphasis is placed on adjudicating among competing explanations based on evidence and critical assessment of a theory's logic.
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Examines criminal justice from the perspective of local communities. Questions of how local communities affect and are affected by crime and criminal justice will be addressed. A central concern will be the discussion of characteristics of neighborhoods that lead to high rates of criminality and how federal, state, and local policies not directly concerned with crime policy may nonetheless bear on crime rates. The City of Boston will be used as a laboratory in which to study these issues.
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Examines the causes and consequences of the crime problem in America. Key actors in the legal system, such as police, courts, and prisons will be covered and the role of these institutions in crime prevention will be assessed. Particular attention will be paid to drugs, guns, gangs and other urban crime problems as well as controversial topics in criminal justice, such as racial profiling and the death penalty.
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A venue for those working on topics such as meaning-making, identity, collective memory, symbolic boundaries, cultural capital, class cultures, popular culture, media, disciplinary cultures, and the impact of culture on inequality.
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A venue for those working on topics such as meaning-making, identity, collective memory, symbolic boundaries, cultural capital, class cultures, popular culture, media, disciplinary cultures, and the impact of culture on inequality.
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Introduction to economic sociology at the graduate level. Surveys economic inequality and the ways that economic behavior and outcomes are shaped by social institutions such as markets, networks, organizations, the family, the state, and culture.
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Examines the key role played by the education system in reproducing and transforming modern society. Considers what purposes education serves; the extent to which ability, effort, intelligence and luck determine educational success; why educational attainment is socially stratifies by social class origin, gender, 'race' and ethnicity; and how educational attainment and outcomes are shaped by differences in character and quality between schools.
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