SOCI 355: Social Inequality

SOCI 355-001: Social Inequality
(Fall 2016)

07:20 PM to 10:00 PM T

Planetary Hall 206

Section Information for Fall 2016

Course is designed to deepen your understanding of processes and patterns of social inequality in the United States. We will critically examine how social inequalities are created, sustained, and resisted at multiple levels: in everyday life, within social institutions, and in social and economic policies. By the end of this course, you will be able to explain and critically assess how processes of social cognition lead us to categorize the people around us and how these processes lead to social inequality; how social categories like race, class, and gender are formed and maintained in the social world; how goods and resources are distributed among social groups; and how processes of inequality operate in areas such as education, healthcare, and occupations. Through this course, you will meet individuals who are working to address issues of social inequality in nonprofit organizations and academia, and you will be asked to reflect on your own position in a stratified social world. You also will have the opportunity to explore an area of social inequality of interest to you and to develop your analytical and communication skills through a research paper project.

 

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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. Limited to three attempts.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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