This seminar provides an introduction to American and European sociological theory for graduate students. It explores the most significant developments since WWII, using seminal theoretical work and ...

Where to find the readings: = Firestone Reserve/Graduate Reading Room (paper). = Electronic reserve/Blackboard course documents. = World Wide Web (click on the link in the syllabus). Rousseau, The ...

People don't stop being people at work. Conflict unfortunately is inevitable. But organizational conflict theory says there are several varieties of conflicts within an organization--inter-personal ...

Throughout the history of what we know as sociological theory, there has been a fundamental tension between the quest for scientifically universal knowledge ...

Interaction-based traditions in sociology, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis (CA), and Goffmanian studies of the interaction order, have long argued ...