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Sociology
The Sociology Department at Columbia University remains the only distinguished department of its kind, central to its institutional identity, in the Ivy League, building on a rich tradition of scholarship to pioneer theoretical and empirical research on a wide range of social issues.
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Courses
This course is required for all sociology majors, but open to all students. Theoretical accounts of the rise and transformations of modern society in the19th and 20th centuries. Theories studied include those of Adam Smith, Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Max Weber, Roberto Michels. Selected topics: individual, society, and polity; economy, class, and status: organization and ideology; religion and society; moral and instrumental action.
