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Professor Abbott has taught a wide variety of courses. In the Chicago Social
Science Core, he has taught in four sequences: "Classics," "Wealth, Power,
and Virtue," "Power, Identity, and Resistance," and "Democracy and Social Science." At the mixed (undergraduate
and graduate) level, he has taught "Work and Occupations," "Urban Social
Processes," and "Social Change." At the purely graduate level, Abbott has taught "Sociological Inquiry,"
"Formal Methods for Narrative Analysis," "Time and Social Structure," and a
dissertation proposal-writing seminar. He has also taught both graduate and undergraduate theory, as well as an annual practicum on library research methods, in recent years at both undergraduate and graduate levels. For several years he has also taught a
graduate seminar of major readings in the winter quarter, covering topics that
change each year. Topics so far include "The Chicago School," "Action and
Meaning," "Emotions," "Power," and "Difference."
Abbott also leads a group of "random readers" on Friday afternoons, exploring the riches of the University's Harper Collection on a random basis.
Abbott's courses for 2011-2012, as presently planned, will be undergraduate Sociological Theory, Library Research Methods, and a seminar (with Gary Herrigel) on Theories of Capitalism Since Veblen.
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