Groups and subcultures shape our thoughts, identities, and actions. They also contribute to large-scale social change and social stability. This course introduces students to the microsociology of ...

Tricia D. Olsen, PhD, is professor and the Stassen Chair of World Peace at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs and Department of Political Science. Olsen studies and ...

Dialectical sociology is based on the axiom of the ‘total’ character of human activity and of the bond between ideas and the economic structure, and the task of social research is to integrate our ...