Center for Urban and Regional Sociology - CURS

The Center for Urban and Regional Sociology (CURS) is a private company for social and marketing research. CURS was established in 1990. Since then CURS has worked with a vast array of clients that require high quality social science and market research. These clients include domestic and foreign government agencies, non-governmental organizations and charitable foundations, and private-sector companies. CURS research projects fall into four substantive areas and are conducted by the following departments: Public Opinion Polls Urban and Regional Research, and Local Development Market Research Advertising and Audience Research CURS research topics include (but are not limited to): civic and political participation, perceptions of and attitudes towards current economic, political, and social changes, urban and regional development, social migration and mobility, interethnic relations, media and cultural consumption, consumer behavior and product testing, evaluation of adverti...