SOC 338 The Urban Metropolis
This course will provide an overview of contemporary issues in urban sociology, beginning with theoretical models and methodological approaches that sociologists use to examine the city in the American, domestic context, and then focusing on contemporary domestic issues in urban sociology such as: residential and neighborhood preferences, segregation, discrimination, mobility, and integration, gentrification, and home-ownership patterns. While we focus on urban social problems in the U.S. in this course, we will also examine the city in a global and comparative context.