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This interdisciplinary course provides an overview of the concepts, measurement, and study of population health and health inequalities across multiple geographic scales, including inter- and intra-national, regional, urban/rural, and neighborhood-level differences. Course material will cover temporal trends and spatial patterns in the nature, causes, and consequences of health outcomes and inequalities, with particular emphasis on associations between economic, social, environmental, and policy factors and health. Emphasis will be on the social determinants of health (the conditions where people are born, live, and work) and on measurable health indicators, including mortality and morbidity, communicable and non-communicable diseases, health behaviors, and mental health. Students will be exposed to population health data and basic spatial analysis methods and will acquire skills to interpret, evaluate, and design basic spatial population health research.
IMMIGRATION (SOC
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This class will provide an overview of issues related to immigration to the United States. In the first part of the course students will focus on the history of immigration and immigration policy. Because immigration to the United States is often driven by labor market processes, students will also learn about various aspects of immigrant labor including farm labor, domestic labor, and immigrant enclaves. In addition students will learn about sociological theories of immigrant incorporation as well as specific issues related to the second-generation children of immigrants including their educational, labor-market and transnational experiences.
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This course is designed to provide an overview of some major topics in the Sociology of Medicine (a.k.a. the Sociology of Health and Health Care). Topics covered might include: medical socialization; historical perspectives on the profession of medicine; the epidemiological transition; population health; the stress paradigm; social epidemiology; social construction of disease and illness; labeling, stigma, and their consequences; medicalization and demedicalization; conceptualizations of the sick role; doctor-patient interaction; health care systems and policy; the research-policy linkage; and the state of the field and future directions for the sociology of health and health care (medical sociology).
NEW YORK CITY: BLACK WOMEN DOMESTIC WORKERS (SOC 627) *Crosslisted with AAS 627, WGS 627 & Double numbered with SOC 427
Historical understanding of Black women's engagement in paid domestic work in the United States, increasing need for domestic workers in the ever-changing economy and family, and the social construction of Black women as "ideal" domestic workers.
POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY (SOC 635)
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POPULATION PROCESSES (SOC 667)
Causes and consequences of three fundamental population processes-mortality, fertility, migration- and topics related to health, aging, families, segregation, and ecological demography. Estimation and interpretation of basic demographic measures.
RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER (SOC 833)
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SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS (SOC 655)
Covers topics in medical sociology including: epidemiological transition, medicalization, social determinants of health, fundamental cause theory, health disparities and inequalities, sick role, narratives of health and illness, and organization of the US medical system.
SOCIOLOGY OF IMMIGRATION AND IMMIGRANT INCORPORATION (SOC 760)
This class will provide an overview of issues related to immigration. In the first part of the course students will focus on the history of immigration and immigration policy. In addition, students will learn about sociological theories of immigrant incorporation as well as specific issues related to the second-generation children of immigrants including their educational, labor-market, and transnational experiences.
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY (SOC 611)
This course is both an advanced introduction to animating concepts in sociological theory, and a selective intellectual history that situates theories of society within concrete political, cultural, and economic contexts. Questions we will bring to the readings include: What theoretical stories are told about the relations between individual experiences and broader social structures or forces? How is power theorized? How does the theory address (or ignore) gender, racial/ethnic, class, sexual, or national differences? What are the epistemological assumptions of the theory: what gets to count as 'real,' 'true' or 'valuable' knowledge? What aspects of the social world does the theory make central and visible, and what aspects does it exclude or render invisible? How can contact with this intellectual history influence our own practices of research and sociological storytelling? back to the top
THE CARIBBEAN: SEX WORKERS, TRANSNATIONAL CAPITAL, AND TOURISM (SOC 645) *Crosslisted with AAS 645, WGS 645
A political economy approach to educating students about the human and capital costs of tourism to the Caribbean. The integral relationship between sex work and Caribbean tourism exposes the region's development that has resulted in its current configuration.
VETERANS ACROSS THE LIFE CYCLE (SOC 600)
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