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Class number:
3173
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Title: Method Individualism |
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Department: Formal Organizations |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 19 |
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Current enrollment: 13 |
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Available seats: 6 |
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Start date: Monday, January 31, 2022 |
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End date: Monday, May 16, 2022 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: W: 1:15PM-3:55PM, LIB - 119 |
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Instructor(s): Stringham, Edward |
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Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: C- or better in Formal Organizations 201, or consent of instructor |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Social Sciences Requirement |
Course Description:
The course studies common methods used for conducting research about how formal organizations pursue, or ineffectively pursue, collective goals. Where the sociologist and political economic historian Max Weber maintains that one can only describe social phenomena by looking at individual motivations and actions, the sociologist Emile Durkheim maintains "determining cause of a social fact should be sought among the social facts preceding it and not among the states of the individual consciousness." Certain methodological positivists, in contrast, argue that empirical studies with predictive capacity are the only findings that matter. This reading and writing intensive course studies different perspectives of when particular research methods help understand social phenomena. Students learn to use a method to conduct a case study of organizations of their choice. |