Welcome to the official page for SOC 20000: Invitation to Sociology with Prof. John Levi Martin. This introductory course is being offered for the first time spring quarter 2019. The class includes bringing in a a featured author, Harel Shapira, a professor of sociology at UT Austin, BA ’01 at UChicago. He will visit Chicago to discuss his recent book Waiting For Jose with the class. Other perks include the secret to surviving a witch hunt, experimental classroom methods, and the award-winning film 56 Up.
Summary
This is a somewhat unusual class. It attempts to not only introduce students unfamiliar with sociology to the sorts of research that is currently being done, but also to communicate the distinctive approaches and contributions of sociology in three parallel registers: first, its substantive findings, second, its methodological approaches (including that of conceptualization), and third, its critical lessons—that is, the cautionary tales that sociology gives us regarding the hazardous task of developing social knowledge.
Questions? Leave a comment, or email the creators of the course (Lucas Wehrwein, Prof. Jenny Trinitapoli, Tim Elder, Prof. John Levi Martin).
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