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Syllabus: Graduates
2008
697 Study at a Foreign Institution (12 Credit Hours)
Central and Eastern Europe in Comparative Perspective: Assessing Social and Political Change
Summer 2008
As part of this course, students will engage in (a) four weeks of intensive training and research in Warsaw, Poland (July 3rd – July 31st 2008), and (b) individual Internet/personal consultations with the instructor upon their return to OSU (August 8th – August 18th).
Instructors: Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow, and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow
Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 1:30-3:30
Email: slomczynski.1@sociology.osu.edu, dubrow.2@osu.edu, tomescu.1@sociology.osu.edu
Voice messages: (614) 292-8078
Mailbox: 301 Bricker Hall
Time & Location: Computer Labs: 10:00 – 11:15, Palac Staszica, Room 201b, 164, 122
Seminars/Individual Consultations: 11:30 – 12:45, Palac Staszica, Room 211
Seminars/Lectures: 14:30 – 16:00, Palac Staszica, Room 154
Computer Room (internet access): Rooms 122/124, 200a, 201
Goals
This course is designed to achieve two objectives. The first objective is to engage students in cross-national research devoted to Central and Eastern Europe as it contrasts with the West. Students will be encouraged to write a comprehensive thematic term paper that may be developed in the form of an article, thesis, or dissertation. Those students who are involved in research in an already developed project may use their analyses to write a paper from a cross-national perspective.
The second objective of the course is to give students a comprehensive understanding of the quantitative methods of cross national research. In particular, the course will include training in using multi-level analyses in which persons are “nested” in countries. These analyses will be based on the European Social Survey.
Readings
Basic: Packet distributed in Warsaw
Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia and Anders Skronda. 2008. Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata. 2nd Edition. Stata Press.
Additional
Bryk, Anthony S., and Stephan W. Raudenbush. 1992. Hierarchical Linear Models: Applications and Data Analysis Methods. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
Snijders, Tom A.B., and Roel J. Bosker. 1999. Multilevel Analysis: An Introduction to Basic and Advanced Multilevel Modeling. London: Sage Publishers
Course Requirements:
Class participation (20% of the grade).
(a) One part of class participation consists of writing peer-reviews of other participants’ papers.
(b) You will also be asked to discuss the main research questions, the research tradition behind the work, the data and methods used, of selected published papers.
A final term paper (80% of the grade). The paper should be an in-depth research note that includes data analysis. It is meant to be a first version of the article intended for publication.
You need to complete the final version of your term paper no later than August 20th 2008 (last day of classes for the 2007/2008 Summer quarter at OSU, main campus), and send it in electronically to slomczynski.1@sociology.osu.edu.
Course Outline
The dates that are provided here are tentative and could change depending on how this class proceeds. Any changes in dates will be announced in class. You are responsible for finding out about any announcements made in class and recitation.
July 2, Wednesday:
6:00 – 17:00 – Arrival (You will be met at the airport; transport to the Hotel Hera; short orientation meeting with Summer School organizers)
July 3,Thursday:
11:00 – 12:00 – Introductory meeting.
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch (PANKLUB)
14:00 – 15:15 – Opening of the conference Sociological Surveys of Public Opinion in Central and Eastern Europe (Room 200)
15:30 – 16:15 – Conference session: European Social Survey
19:00 Dinner
July 4, Friday:
10:00 – 12:30 Sociological Surveys of Public Opinion in Central and Eastern Europe: Polish Panel Survey, POLPAN, 1988-2008 (Room 200)
14:00 – 16:00 – Sociological Surveys of Public Opinion in Central and Eastern Europe: Archiving Public Opinion Data
July 5, Saturday: 10:00 – 16:00 – Tour of Warsaw. Cultural Activities.
July 6, Sunday: 10:00 – 18:30 – Visit to the city of Kazimierz
July 7, Monday:
10:00 – 11:15 Computer Lab: Exploration of ESS data set. Identifying variables of interest( I)
11:30 – 12:45 – Seminar
14:30 – 16:00 – Historical Context of Central and East European Communism
July 8, Tuesday:
10:00 – 11:15 – Computer Lab: Exploration of ESS data set. Identifying variables of interest (II)
11:30 – 12:45 – Seminar
14:30 – 16:00 – Visit to the European Union Office in Warsaw
19:00 Dinner
July 9, Wednesday:
9:00 – 12:00 – University of Warsaw. Palac Kazimierzowski, Brudzinski Room
14:30 – 16:00 – Social and Political Change after 1989: from Where to Where
July 10, Thursday:
10:00 – 11:15 – Computer Lab: Examining contrasts between EE countries and the rest
11:30 – 12:45 – Seminar
14:30 – 16:00 – Class Divisions and Structured Inequality
July 11, Friday (departure time, Warsaw Main Train Station 12:00 PM) – July 13, Sunday (departure time, Krakow train station: 16:45 (4:45 PM). Visit to the city of Krakow
July 14, Monday:
10:00 – 11:15 – Computer Lab
11:30 – 12:45 – Seminar
14:30 – 16:00 – Institutional Attitudes related to Politics, the State, and the Catholic Church
July 15, Tuesday:
10:00 – 11:15 – Computer Lab
11:30 – 12:45 – Seminar
13:00 – 13:45 Lunch
*14:30 – 16:00 – Visit to NGOs, and/or to the University of Warsaw. International Conference on Eastern Europe
July 16, Wednesday:
10:00 – 11:15 – Computer Lab
11:30 – 12:45 – Seminar
*12:45 – 18:00 – Visit to the University of Warsaw. International Conference on Eastern Europe
July 17, Thursday:
10:00 – 11:15 – Computer Lab
11:30 – 12:45 – Seminar
14:30 – 16:00 – Guest lecture: Crime and Society (Dr. Anna Kiersztyn)
July 18, Friday:
10:00 – 11:15 – Computer Lab
11:30 – 12:45 – Seminar
14:30 – 16:00 – Guest Lecture: Professor Krzysztof Zagorski “Change in the Meritocratic Allocation of Goods in Poland” More information on his “Inversely Proportional Index of Wealth” (IPIW) can be found in the following citation: Zagorski, Krzysztof. 2005. “Lifecycle Objective and Subjective Living Standards and Life Status: New Indexes Building and Applications, Poland 1992 – 2004” in Excellence in International Research, edited by Deborah Fellows. Esomar: Amsterdam.
July 19, Saturday: Free time
July 20, Sunday: 10:30-19:00 – Trip to the city of Lodz
July 21, Monday:
11:30 – 12:45 – Seminar
14:30 – 16:00 – Meet with Professor Tadeusz Krauze.
July 22, Tuesday:
10:00 – 11:15 – Computer Lab
11:30 – 12:45 – Seminar
*12:45 – 13:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 – Visit to UNDP Poland.
July 23, Wednesday:
10:00 – 11:15 – Computer Lab
11:30 – 12:45 – Seminar
14:30 – 16:00 – Democracy and Democratic Values
July 24, Thursday:
10:00 – 11:15 – Computer Lab
11:30 – 12:45 – Seminar
14:30 – 16:00 – Group Discussions of Work in Progress
July 25, Friday:
10:00 – 11:15 – Lecture by Professor Henryk Domanski
11:30 – 12:45 – Seminar
14:30 – 16:00 – Group Discussions of Work in Progress
July 26, Saturday: Free time
July 27, Sunday: Free time
July 28, Monday:
10:00 – 11:15 – Computer Lab
11:30 – 12:45 – Seminar
*14:30 – 16:00 – Meeting with OSCE’s Human Rights division
July 29, Tuesday:
10:00 – 11:15 – Computer Lab
12:30 – 13:30 – Lecture by Professor Krystyna Janicka
*14:30 – 16:00 – Discussion of Individual Projects
19:00 Dinner
July 30, Wednesday:
11:00 – 12:30 – Summary Session.
August 19, Tuesday, by 4 PM: Final Paper due, via email to Slomczynski.1@sociology.osu.edu
Summer School in Social Sciences 