Focuses on assumptions, diagnostics, applications, and interpretations. 207A-207B. Methods of Quantitative Research Principles of study design, examination of measurement, survey research methods and multivariate analysis. Course will stress actual practice of techniques. Students will carry out quantitative data analysis using packaged computer programs. Emphasis on the model's assumptions, its strengths and weaknesses, its application for social science inquiry, and the relationship between methods and social theory.
Interdisciplinary perspective incorporates demography, sociology, human ecology, etc.
Economy, Polity, and Society Course introduces students to topics and selected issues in the related fields of economic and political sociology and political economy. Deviance, Law, and Social Control Report and discussions of literature on selected forms of deviance in relation to law and formal social control. Agency contacts and exploratory research projects. Cultural Sociology Explores the varied ways in which culture is understood in the social sciences and the research questions that follow from contrasting viewpoints. The approach is historically informed and focused on changing cultural forms in relation to industrialization and post-modernism.