Political Sociology

Course info:

Sociology 465/565

Fall 2007

Wed 6:00-8:50 p.m.

155 Knight Library

Instructor info:

Professor Val Burris

730 PLC / 346-5001

Office hours: Tuesday 12:00-2:00 p.m.

vburris@uoregon.edu

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Course links:

• Syllabus

• Work groups and email addresses

• Who Rules? An Internet Guide to Power Structure Research (Val Burris's web site)

• Who Rules America?  (Bill Domhoff's web site)

Assignments

• First Research Assignment (posted 10/3, due 10/17)

• Some Results from the First Assignment.

• Second Research Assignment (posted 10/17, due 11/7)

• Some Results from the Second Assignment

  PAC contributions of industries

  Indirect interlocks in banking

  Indirect interlocks in defense

• Third Research Assignment (posted 11/14, due 11/28)

Class notes and handouts

• Introduction to Power Structure Research

• Power Elite Diagram

• Sources of Political Power of Corporations and the Upper Class

• Control of Corporations

• Director Interlocks

• Example of Director Interlock Network

• Corporate "Inner Circle"

• Flow of Policy from Corporations to Government