Courses

What can a queue, a registration rule, or a survey reveal about social life? Learn to connect everyday encounters to institutions, compare serious explanations, and design a small investigation that evidence can challenge.

How do people learn who they are and negotiate who they can be with others? Follow everyday interaction, group boundaries, family expectations, ritual and workplace transitions through primary texts, empirical studies and original worked cases.

How are resources, respect and opportunities distributed, and how do advantages persist or change? Work through family resources, education, classification, paid work, care and mobility, then build an evidence-based inequality brief.

Why do organizations produce outcomes nobody intended? Six substantial chapters examine rules, frontline judgment, education, workplaces and healthcare before guiding you through a concrete reform proposal.

How do housing, movement and public space shape who can live together? Six substantial chapters connect neighborhood boundaries, housing access, segregation and displacement to an evidence-based comparison of two San Francisco tracts.

How do people coordinate, trust, challenge authority and change institutions? Six substantial chapters connect power and survey evidence to information, collective action and a documented comparison of the Montgomery and Baton Rouge bus campaigns.