Topic:  Seminar in Social Stratification

This course is intended for students working on a research project in
social stratification, broadly conceived. When they enroll in the
course, students are expected to have in mind a project in this area
that can be revised/completed over the course of the semester. The
product of the course is a paper suitable for submission to an
academic professional journal. The course will be run as a workshop in
the practicalities of doing research, writing up the results, and
publishing. Issues related to study design, sampling, measurement,
methods of data analysis, interpretation, and writing, as these apply
to the specific projects being worked on, will be discussed each week.
Readings, apart from those in the literature being drawn upon in each
project, will be minimal. The research products will be presented to
the class at the end of the semester.

Before registering for this class, students are advised to meet with
Professor Powell.