This course is not required and open to all Graduate School of Arts and Sciences students. It focuses on concepts, techniques and issues involved in scientifically collecting data by asking people questions. But these can be neither grasped nor used well without also understanding the sociology and politics of their epistemology. I hope students will leave the course with a grasp of what specifically is involved in carrying out a survey, the theoretical foundations of survey methods, how the work of any particular survey you may do is socially grounded, and how this social location must then be entered into carrying out a survey.