11.469 | Spring 2016 | Graduate

Urban Sociology in Theory and Practice

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Weekly Response Paper

These will offer a critical assessment of the assigned materials and not mere restatement of content. Nine response papers are expected—you will not be expected to write one on the day you are presenting or on the day we discuss the ethnographies, and you will have one week of your choice off. The responses will be graded on a √+, √, √- scale. For more information, please see the Assignments page.

SES # TOPICS ASSIGNMENTS DUE
1 Introduction to the Course, Orientation at MCI Norfolk  
2 The Sociological Imagination  
3 Early Urban Sociology  
4 Community and How to Study It  
5 The Ethnographic Tradition  
6 Urban Political Economy: Cities, Industrialization, Deindustrialization Reflection paper due
7 Urban Political Economy: Elites, Political Power, and Urban Dynamics  
8 Theories of Urban Inequality Final Project Proposal due
9 Identities, Boundaries, and Inequality  
10 Social Capital and Social Networks  
11 Neighborhood Effects: Order, Disorder, and Collective Efficacy  
12 Social Origins of Violence  
13 Collective Action Final Project due

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