Classes

Semester: Fall Offered: 2012 The American workplace has become much more diverse over the past 30 years, with women and minorities moving into greater positions of authority. But significant inequalities remain. Why? This course explores how sociologists...

Semester: Spring Offered: 2012 The American workplace has become much more diverse over the past 30 years, with women and minorities moving into greater positions of authority. But significant inequalities remain. Why? In this course we will consider what...

Semester: Spring Offered: 2012 Covers the development of sociology as a discipline in the US and the rise of distinct schools of sociological theory. Assesses the role of mechanisms in sociological theory and explores the use of theory in empirical...

Semester: East Asian economies burst onto the center stage of global capitalism in the late 20th century. How were the lives of ordinary people in this part of the world affected? Who has gained and lost in the process of economic development? We will use...

Semester: East Asian economies burst onto the center stage of global capitalism in the late 20th century. How were the lives of ordinary people in this part of the world affected? Who has gained and lost in the process of economic development? We will use...

Semester: N/A Sociology 229 is a graduate seminar with the specific pedagogical purpose of developing a new Harvard general education undergraduate course on inequality and society in Japan, Korea, and China, to be taught in Spring 2010 for the first time...

Semester: This course provides an overview of key issues and perspectives in the study of gender inequality. Link:

Semester: East Asian economies burst onto the center stage of global capitalism in the late 20th century. How were the lives of ordinary people in this part of the world affected? Who has gained and lost in the process of economic development? We will use...

Semester: This course is designed to provide an introduction to the social institutions structuring life in contemporary Japan and to engage students in some of the debates surrounding Japan’s transformation in the late 20 th and early 21 st centuries...