Teaching

SOCIOL 3313: Urban Data Lab
Semester: Spring and Fall Offered: Ongoing each academic year The Urban Data Lab is a small working lab to support research on a subset of topics regarding the urban condition in the 21st century. We are catholic in our interests, but the unifying...

FYSEMR 73S: Crime and Justice in a Changing America
Semester: Fall Offered: 2024 This seminar examines key changes in crime and the criminal justice system over the last half-century, including the dramatic rise in violence starting in the 1960s, mass incarceration starting in the mid-1970s, the unexpected...

SOCIOL 2282: Criminal Justice and Social Inequality
Semester: Spring Offered: 2024 The criminal justice system and social inequality are deeply intertwined in the U.S. This seminar focuses on theory and research examining forms of this connection, with a focus on life-course divergences in times of social...

SOCIOL 1271: Crime and Justice in a Changing Society
Semester: Spring Offered: 2024 This course examines the changing landscape of crime and justice in America over the last half-century, a time of profound transformation. Among other social changes, the U.S. saw a dramatic rise in violence in the 1960s...

Sociology 97: Tutorial on Sociological Theory
Semester: Spring Offered: 2016, 2022 Sociologists are a diverse group but they are all bound by one common goal: a desire to understand how society works. Although sociologists adopt a multitude of approaches to understand the social world, they all ask a...

Sociology 97: Tutorial on Sociological Theory
Semester: Fall Offered: 2015, 2019, 2021 Sociologists are a diverse group but they are all bound by one common goal: a desire to understand how society works. Although sociologists adopt a multitude of approaches to understand the social world, they all...

Sociology 1171: Crime and Order in the American City
Semester: Fall Offered: 2019, 2020 Ideas about crime and social order have animated debates about cities for over a century. After reviewing classic approaches to the study of the American city, we will evaluate contemporary arguments on central themes...

Sociology 90U: Research Lab: Analyzing Urban Inequality
Semester: Fall Offered: 2017 Aims to provide students with hands-on experience analyzing and interpreting data on contemporary social problems and multiple dimensions of urban inequality. Students will analyze and present results from data provided by...

Sociology 97: Tutorial on Sociological Theory
Semester: Spring Offered: 2017 Sociologists are a diverse group but they are all bound by one common goal: a desire to understand how society works. Although sociologists adopt a multitude of approaches to understand the social world, they all ask a...

Sociology 97: Tutorial on Sociological Theory
Semester: Fall Offered: 2016 Sociologists are a diverse group but they are all bound by one common goal: a desire to understand how society works. Although sociologists adopt a multitude of approaches to understand the social world, they all ask a similar...

Sociology 208: Contemporary Theory and Research
Semester: Fall Offered: 2016 This seminar examines contemporary theoretical approaches in sociology and, crucially, the connection of theory to research. In addition to purely theoretical concerns, we shall thus analyze how contemporary sociologists...

Sociology 208
Semester: Spring Offered: 2015 SOC208 iSite 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...

Sociology 314: Workshop on Urban Social Processes
Semester: Fall Offered: 2015 SOC314 Canvas Urbanization is rapidly expanding around the world and new forms of data are presenting unique opportunities for research on cities. The Harvard Department of Sociology's Urban Social Processes Workshop is a...

Sociology 314: Workshop on Urban Social Processes
Semester: Spring Offered: 2015 Urbanization is rapidly expanding around the world and new forms of data are presenting unique opportunities for research on cities. SOC314 is a forum to explore the social mechanisms, processes, and structures that occur in...

Sociology 150
Semester: Fall Offered: 2013 SOC150 iSite Ideas about order and disorder have driven debates about the city for over a century. After reviewing classic approaches we will examine contemporary research on neighborhood inequality, "broken-windows" and crime...

Sociology 150
Semester: Spring Offered: 2013 SOC150 iSite Ideas about order and disorder have driven debates about the city for over a century. After reviewing classic approaches we will examine contemporary urban research on neighborhood inequality, "broken-windows"...

Sociology 310b Qualifying Paper B
Semester: Fall Offered: 2011 SOC310b iSite Guides students through the process of producing an original research paper of high quality. Readings and discussion cover the identification of appropriate research problems, the nature of causal reasoning, and...