Omar Lizardo

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame

email: olizardo@nd.edu
Address: Department of Sociology University of Notre Dame, 810 Flanner Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556

Courses recently taught at Notre Dame

(Syllabi provided below are only for illustrative purposes and are subject to change every semester)

Sociology 30900: Foundations of Sociological Theory

Sociology 63911: Classical Social Theory (Graduate)

Sociology 63911: Classical Social Theory (Graduate Reading List)

Notes on Marx's "The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof."
Notes on True or False? Truth and Marxology in Marxian economics."
Notes on Durkheim's "The Determination of Moral Facts."
Notes on Durkheim's "The Contribution of Sociology to Psychology and Philosophy."

Stata programs

Program to fit the Sobel-Hout-Duncan (1985) paremeterization of the model of quasi-symmetry. [pdf]

Program to fit gaussian, logit and poisson regression models that incorporate Sobel's (1981) non-linear parameterization of "status inconsistency" effects for two identically coded independent variables R and C (Sobel refers to these models as "diagonal reference models"). [pdf]

Miscelleanous Notes

Notes on Piaget's "Explanation in Sociology."