New York: The Global City

This course deploys social scientific research strategies and analytical frameworks to explore the forces shaping New York City—including migration, finance, real estate, small businesses, natural environment, religious communities, social movements, housing, and gentrification—with particular attention to the contestation over the future the city as it is playing out in the city’s neighborhoods, social groups, and political and civic institutions. The course uses New York as a laboratory for understanding the impact of globalization on urban settings and of urban settings on globalization. (Students will receive credit for SOC 4400 or ANT 4400. These courses may substitute for each other in the F-replacement policy.)