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This seminar examines the academic writing and publication process in sociology, with particular emphasis towards peer-reviewed articles as the central writing format of the field. We will give particular emphasis to the work of motivating an article and using a theoretical ?review? of the literature to do so, as well as building methods, results, and conclusions sections to support the motivating questions.

Selected topics in medical sociology. Emphasis on current issues, theory, and research. Students expected to initiate relevant research projects.

Approaches culture at various levels and in diverse areas subject to student interest, spanning such topics as globalization, intercultural conflict, civil religion, cultural movements, the media, and both cultural production and consumption.

A second statistics course for the social sciences. Topics include multiple regression analysis, use of qualitative independent variables, interaction effects, nonlinear effects, other topics related to the general linear model. Introduction to logistic regression. Prerequisite: a prior statistics course. Undergraduate students accepted with consent of instructor.

Selected European and American contributors and their systems of theory, in biographical, historical, and sociological perspective. Consent of instructor required.

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