Models of Social Change
University of Bucharest
2015
Department of Sociology
Instructor: Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow
This course addresses social change and methodological trends in the social sciences.
The topics we will cover:
- Basic terms: Review and introduction to key terms used throughout the course
- Classic theories of stratification and social change
- Revolutions, War and Democratization
- Political inequality: Dynamics and measurement
- Internationalization: Costs, benefits and functional equivalence in cross-national comparisons
- Interdisciplinary research: Costs and benefits of moving from disciplinary to interdisciplinarity knowledge
- Intersectionality: Methodology of an emerging paradigm
- Harmonization and “Big data”
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