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From Occupy Wall Street to the Bernie Sanders movement, there has been rising anger against big banks and Wall Street financiers over economic inequality in America. But is finance really to blame? Political sociology and economic sociology are used to ask how the growing power of finance relates to...

Statistics is a research method, a system of logic, a tool for comparing things, a language. It is increasingly used in media, technology, education, social work, government policy, politics, and business. People also misuse statistics in all of these fields. In this course, students learn to...

In her book, What is Political Sociology?, Elizabeth Clemens differentiates this subfield from the work of political scientists, who she says focus on “the workings and consequence” of “elements of formal government (e.g. the legislative, the executive, the judiciary).” In contrast, political...