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SOCIOL 288-DL : Institutions and Society

Description

This course will examine a fundamental concept in the social sciences: institutions. Institutions are prevalent and durable systems of rules and expectations that structure human behavior. Money, commercial organizations, law, language, and marriage are all examples of institutions. This course will give you theoretical and methodological tools for understanding how institutions shape individual and organizational behavior, how institutions resist change and persist across generations, and how institutions change over time and foster innovation. You will also learn how to put institutional theories into practice in developing corporate and political strategy.

This course is conducted completely online. A technology fee will be added to tuition.

Note: This course is limited to School of Professional Studies students only. Undergraduate students in other schools at Northwestern are not permitted to enroll in this course.