SOCI 355: Social Inequality

SOCI 355-DL1: Social Inequality
(Fall 2025)

Online

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Section Information for Fall 2025

In this course, we identify and examine structures of social inequality and their implications for people and communities around us, across the United States, and globally. We will explore issues of race and ethnicity, language and immigration status, sex and gender, social class, age, and sexual orientation. We will encounter key sociological concepts and frameworks and understand social hierarchies and study how inequality is reproduced.


This course fulfills Mason Core Exploration Requirements in Social and Behavioral Sciences.

SOCI 355 DL1 is an online asynchronous section.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Studies class structures and implications for individuals and groups in modern society. Explores issues of race and ethnicity, language and immigration status, sex and gender, social class, age, and sexual orientation. Examines critically the theory and research that explore the construction, experience, and meaning of such differences. Offered by Sociology & Anthropology. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Mason Core, Social/Behavioral Sciences
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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