SOC 370 - Members Only: A Political Sociology of Citizenship

4 credits (Fall or Spring)

Citizenship is a legal tie between an individual and a particular state, but it is also a category to which rights are attached, a basis for identification, and a set of participatory practices. It is shaped and expressed in the political sphere (through schools, military service, museums, censuses, and surveillance), the economic sphere (in labor markets), and in the civil sphere (through conventional participatory practices such as voting and the emergence of new domains of political engagement such as grassroots movements). This course takes a comparative-historical approach and uses the lens of political sociology to examine cases across the globe.

Prerequisite: Two 200-level sociology courses.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Cook-Martin