Sociology

• GRS SO 848: Culture, Markets, and Inequality
  This seminar examines commerce as a cultural process, focusing on cultural production and consumption practices in fields like fashion, music, and bodily goods and services. Traces the cultural construction and maintenance of gender, race, and class inequalities in markets.
• GRS SO 857: Seminar: Sociology of Mind
  Illustrates the various sociological approaches to "mental" phenomena and elucidates some recent developments in cognitive sociology. Contemporary disputes over the nature of "cognitive science" will be explored.
• GRS SO 862: Seminar: Great Theorists
  This seminar examines the ideas of Montesquieu, Saint-Simon, Wollstonecraft, Tocqueville, Martineau, Spencer, Pareto, Veblen, Simmel, and Du Bois through critiques of these seminal concepts: "relative deprivation," "the survival of the fittest," "conspicuous consumption," "the circulation of elites," and "double consciousness."
• GRS SO 947: Dr Field Conc
  
• GRS SO 948: Dr Field Conc
  
• GRS SO 951: Dissertation Workshop
  Seminar discussions of the framing of research proposals, different strategies for the completion of theses, appropriate types of scholarly publications, and the dissemination of research findings. Emphasis on the practical side of building a career as a professional sociologist.
• GRS SO 952: Dissertation Workshop
  Seminar discussions of the framing of research proposals, different strategies for the completion of theses, appropriate types of scholarly publications, and the dissemination of research findings. Emphasis on the practical side of building a career as a professional sociologist.

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