COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL METHODS IN SOCIOLOGY

SOC 753

Course Description

Comparative strategies and historical methods through methodological readings, exercises, and evaluations of exemplary analyses in which investigators of organizational structures, institutional relationships, political conflicts, and cultural patterns bring theory and historical-comparative evidence to bear on one another.

Prerequisties

Graduate/professional standing

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average

3.54

2.46% from Historical

Completion Rate

100%

6.98% from Historical

A Rate

75%

1.47% from Historical

Class Size

30.43% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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