2022 Fall
SOCIOL 190 002 - SEM 002
Seminar and Research in Sociology
Kim Voss
Aug 24, 2022 - Dec 09, 2022
Tu
02:00 pm - 03:59 pm
Social Sciences Building 420
Class #:16905
Units: 4
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
Sociology
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
4
Enrolled: 21
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 25
Waitlist Max: 0
No Reserved Seats
Hours & Workload
2 hours of student-instructor coverage of course materials per week, and 10 hours of outside work hours per week.
Course Catalog Description
Advanced study in sociology, with specific topics to be announced at the beginning of each semester.
Class Description
Social Movements and Immigration
Until recently, social movement scholars have paid little attention to collective action on the part of immigrants, especially non-citizen immigrants, either in their empirical research or in their theorizing about protest movements. The upsurge in pro-immigrant activism over the past 20 years calls this neglect into question and raises questions about whether we need to alter how we understand, research, and theorize social movements. The first couple weeks of the seminar will provide an overview of the conceptual toolkit social movement scholars have developed to explain the emergence and fate of iconic movements such as the civil rights, women’s, and LBGTQ movements. We will then turn to readings about the recent upsurge in pro-immigrant mobilization, asking if and how we need to rethink our research strategies and theories if we are to understand pro-immigrant collective action. Each student will write a research paper on some specific episode or aspect of collective action around immigration, based either on original data (interviews, documents, etc.) or an assessment of the relevant scholarship.
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Requirements class fulfills
Meets Social & Behavioral Sciences, L&S Breadth
Meets the Carceral Geographies Course Thread
Meets the Culture and Globalization Course Thread
Meets the Historical & Modern City Course Thread
Meets the Humanities & Environment Course Thread
Reserved Seats
Current Enrollment
No Reserved Seats
Textbooks & Materials
See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.
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Associated Sections
None